September 3rd 2025 Comic Pulls

[babbling_bookends]

Three pulls this week; I keep track of all my pulls on League of Comic Geeks, but there must have been an error on there with the release date for Birds of Prey, because when I made my September Pulls list, Birds of Prey #25 was scheduled for the next week (which I thought was odd because it's usually with Batgirl, but I just assumed there was some kind of delay). However, it seems like the issue has been released, given that other people have picked up their physical issues and it's out digitally. (Though I don't actually have any phsical copies yet; I read the issues online because I didn't have a chance to stop at my LCS this week). Not sure what happened there, I'm guessing there was a mistake with the release date on LoCG.

Spoilers ahead!



Batgirl #11


Cass gets a sword and Tenji gets claws; then they both get on ponies and ride into the sunset. Also there was some stuff with blood demons! I'm sure that's not important, though. This was the wrap-up to the whole emotional arc with Lady Shiva's death and Cass discovering she has a brother. It was pretty solid, though I'm disappointed that the location was so limited; Cass traveled all the way to Montana ranch and it felt like that setting wasn't utilized as much as it could have been. (Did I just want more cowgirl Cass? Maybe. Who can say?)



Birds of Prey #25


Character creation is the best part of any video game and you can't change my mind. Yes I will spend 2 hours making the perfect avatar. Inque is apparently part of the team now, which you would think would be a bigger deal given that she possessed Big Barda a few issues ago and the whole team was freaked out about it. Obviously Barda wasn't happy about it, but I don't know, I guess I wanted more tension, because the payoff when Inque jumped in front of a blast meant for Barda would have been better.



Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #2:


The roster is filled out! My only experience with Klarion the Witch Boy is from what I watched of the Young Justice show, which was a while ago, but I remember liking him. Becky Sharpe, aka Hazard, is an unknown to me, and the unnamed muscle for the crew, a girl with pink hair and a powerful punch. If the first issue was the "what", as in, "what are they stealing", then this issue was the "who", as in "who is doing the stealing". This girl is a Greg Rucka original, newly created specifically for this series, which is fun! According to his newsletter, next issue will be the plan, which is always a fun part of any heist story.



Notes:


I also read the first issue of Matt Fraction's Batman run and I gotta say, it was pretty okay! Very solid! Not objectionable! Etc!

Notably, Tim shows up in the last page and is looking like a petite teen who easily fits inside a locker when his bully shoves him in, whose voice has not yet dropped and is surely failing PE class due to his inability to complete a single push-up before his frail arms, used only to move a computer mouse while playing video games, give out and send him careening to the mat.

Has Jimenez ever seen a 17-year-old in his life? Asking for a friend XD

Comments

[queenslayerbee]

Cheetah & Cheshire is picking up! I'm excited for what'll happen next. YJTV is where my familiarity with Klarion comes from, though between that and what little I've heard from comic readers, idk if he's a good pick if you don't want your temmates to stab you in the back LOL.

añdlsfkjaf isn't Tim supposed to be an adult already, as well? He owned a whole ass house(-boat)?? Also, there are some many athletic disciplines that could be used as reference for the body Tim is supposed to have (not overly muscled, sure, I'm all for that and encourage it, but clearly strong and capable in hand to hand combat etc.). And it's easy to find them on the internet even... no excuse xDD

[babbling_bookends]

Greg Rucka's newsletter recently talked about why Klarion was chosen for the team; Nicola Scott really likes him and when they were looking for a magic-user for the crew, she basically demanded he be in the book.

Nicola came aboard the book because she likes Cheetah, enjoys drawing her, but when the magic question was first broached, she made it very clear she wanted to draw Klarion the Witch Boy. She shoved her copy of Seven Soldiers of Victory at me, said, "READ!" and then retreated to her office to draw designs of Klarion and Teekl. This is how we get Klarion and Teekl. The and is important, because Teekl becomes part of the crew. I did not need convincing. A perpetually adolescent Witch Boy with all that entails? A character who absolutely presses the "DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON" button for the sheer mischievous joy of seeing what will happen? Absolutely.

I was a little concerned because for some reason I thought this was a 4-issue series and I was wondering how on Earth Rucka was going to pack so much plot in when the series was half-over and they'd only just gotten the team together, but then I double-checked and it was 6 issues. Whew!

Tim and Jason need to get together and share a bit of each others' curses: Tim keeps getting drawn younger and Jason keeps getting drawn older XD

[queenslayerbee]

I'm feeling real envy for Nicola Scott rn. I wish I could do that with comic authors myself xD

Tim and Jason need to get together

Agreed.

With the other part too xD