A blog of my running thoughts while reading. *Warning: Spoilers*
“The Bowl” was a pretty powerful story. I was impressed by how much the bowl experienced, how it was part of nearly every aspect of the community’s life. It was sad to see that all so underestimated by the historians of the museum! The “fifty years retrospective” about the book was funny, but also rather interesting. I enjoyed this book a great deal!
The story about the circus detective was good. It didn’t really answer all of its own questions, but the story made enough sense that it didn’t really matter. I liked the art in “Wings”, but there wasn’t a whole lot of coherent plot. It really felt like more of an art piece than a short story, which I guess is ok, it just isn’t what I was expecting.
I really didn’t understand those first two stories. The one about the girl falling or jumping had a confusing ending and I just wasn’t sure what to make of “Dummy Brother”. What happened? Was there a story? I was just confused!!! I loved “The Maiden and the River Spirit”, though! It was awesome!
I enjoyed the story with the little girl and the giant robot. It was full of wonderful emotions and expressions. The story with the woman on the bike, however, left me with mixed emotions. I liked her riding freely and experiencing things as they came, but why did what made everything better have to be getting kissed by a boy? Seriously? She doesn’t need to be depressed anymore because a boy kissed her? That’s just stupid.
So far this is pretty good. We got to see Copper again (he seems to have a really interesting world to live in). I loved the art in the kite story! The story “I Wish…” was interesting and I really liked the ending. I loved the “Hugo Earhart” story too! So far, this has been fun!
This is a really good story, but I think that maybe I liked the first book better than this one. I did love the artwork. The plot was great, but I liked it a whole lot better before he randomly threw in the mutant healing thing. I am really glad that I got to read these as they are pretty unique. Mathot did some very interesting things. I do wonder why he felt the need to add the supernatural element, but the characterizations were great. I very much enjoyed it.
Wow, this is all one big mess! How is Batman possibly going to clean up this whole mess? Even Barbara seems to have her hands full trying to keep up! And whatever happened to Steph? She’s completely vanished and it’s like no one had noticed yet. I suppose it hasn’t been long yet, but still… And, of course, we got more foreshadowing. They could really lay off that some!
Poor Steph is very bitter about being fired. I wonder if Bruce thought at all about what the consequences of him firing her would actually be? Has he ever tried to fire someone before? He’s disapproved of people and told them to stop or to go away, but has he ever actually fired someone before?
And will he ever do it again or has he (and DC Comics) forgotten this?
Ok, that was a little weak. I agree with Batman’s actions, even his firing of Steph (given the stated rules), but the situation was not well done. And I’m not wild about the conditions anyway. Did Jason or Tim have to deal with that? Tim could have done it, but Jason broke rules and defied Bruce at every turn! He never could have survived this probation period! So what gives? Has Bruce just gotten old and crotchety or was it something about him not liking Spoiler? Whatever, it’s very frustrating!
So who put out the hit on Robin - Tim’s Robin - and why? And what are they going to do about it now? And what are they going to do about it now? Obviously the hitwoman’s plans just changed, but to what? And what about Tim? Is he just going to sit by and let Cassie protect him? That seems unlike him.
I liked Babs commenting that she likes push-ups. Of course she does!