Just Stay at Home

in my comics this week.

• The Penguin's "hot tub".
• Happy to know Hal gets as fed up with that stupid oath as much as I do.
• The Joker bitch-slapping Lex Luthor.
• Tim Wayne. I wondered whether they'd ever go there.
  
• Roy Raymond Junior. Look it up, kids!
  
• Will Pfeiffer introducing a cigar in the first act and firing it in the third.
  
• The first page of Incredible Hercules (and many of the ones that follow, too).
• Name-checking Chloe Sullivan and Perry's frank evaluation of the interview scene from Superman: The Movie.
• So, Mr. Virgil is a guide to the underworld of popular culture, eh?
  
• Thanks to Robin and Gotham Underground, the Penguin's seeming more and more like himself these days. Classy; intelligent; strategic; phlegmatic. Let's just hope Wizkids does him justice by listening to their play-testers, who're already complaining that the Heroclix figure of him in autumn's Rogues Gallery set is still unplayable.
• Ray, that is not a kilt. It's a sleeveless mini-dress with a built-in belt. How can you have lived with Jean Loring all those years without knowing that?
• I love that the first two paragraphs of Catwoman do double-duty as metafictive commentary to the reader... .
• So, Megistus wasn't really much more than a poor man's Dr. Alchemy?
  
• "Lexoskeleton"? That's hilarious.
• Vandal Savage, player.
• "I never tried to cash in." Yeah, that made me laugh. Wally West, who ran superspeed errands for pay in Flash 1. Wally West, who left Keystone to become the hired resident superhero of a California town. Wally West, who on JLU used to do commercial endorsements. Nice try, Tom!
• Jimmy Olsen bitch-slapping Darkseid. With a bridge.
• Yeah, how does the freezy breath work?
• Paragon's simple and ingenious method for stopping three angry Daxamite zealots.
• The Penguin's method for handling Tobias Whale.
• As a classicist, I love that Hercules gets misidentified and attacked because of a mistranslation.
• Hm. A mind-controlling villain named "Spin" in the Flash? That certainly is familiar, isn't it?
• How glorious is it that this week's entire issue of Catwoman is synopsized in one word in Salvation Run this week?
• Wow; okay, that is definitely a Galactic Golem.
• I would love to watch The Invisible Man Out West.
• Did YOU figure out Superman's Clever Kryptonite Ploy? I'm proud to say I did.
• Tim Drake's hair. I just love Tim Drake's hair.
• Okay, did Huntress just throw a Cheetah wanna-be in front of a hail of bullets?
• The intimation that being on Salvation Run is beginning to drive the Joker sane.
• Kurt Busiek showing situations that give Superman ideas for broader projects to aid humanity, like the Library of Arctic Alexandria.
• I like Slam Bradley's foe; who is he?
  
• I think including "robot" and "polka" on the list made that question much too easy.
• Legion of SuperHeroes in the 31st Century No. 13 is the Best You Comic You Probably Won't Buy This Week.
• Lex Luthor makes an Atlantic Monthly joke. In the middle of a fight.
• Finally, someone's addressing "Where does Wally West's money come from?" In fact, I like what Tom Peyer's doing in this month's Flash generally.
• Only Clark Kent would apologize for getting buried under rubble.
• I guess I have to enjoy Darkseid being dead as long as it lasts.