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I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.   

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Separate Orbits
Yael Mermelstein
Progress: 119/427pages
BATMAN #53 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman53, TomKingBatman53
BATMAN #54 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
MattWagnerBatman54, TomKingBatman54
BATMAN #52 ((DC REBIRTH)) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman52, TomKingBatman52
BATMAN #51 ((DC REBIRTH)) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman51, TomKingBatman51
Infinity Wars: Iron Hammer (2018) #1 (of 2)
Al Ewing, Humberto Ramos
Champions (2019-) #4
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente
SUICIDE SQUAD #46 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
JosLuisSS46, RobWilliamsSS46
SUICIDE SQUAD #45 ((SINK ATLANTIS)) ((DC REBIRTH )) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
JosLuisSuicideSquad45, RobWilliamsSuicideSquad45
Champions (2019-) #3
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente

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Witchblade Rebirth Volume 1 - Fred Benes, Diego Bernard, Tim Seeley

Tim Seeley, the author of this volume, was handed a steaming pile of BS: this is an AU based off Artifacts, in which Hope is the daughter of Jackie Estacado and Jenny, a woman who is supposed to be dead.  When the Top Cow universe died, Hope brought it back: she was a key, on which everything in that universe was held, and she could bring the universe back from death.  Recreate it, really.   But Jackie somehow warped that universe, taking Hope away from Sara.   

 

Except this all hinges on things that I object to.   Everything feels slightly off and the 'real' universe is still the one in which Sara was raped, and no one says shit about it except to make jokes about her dating her rapist.    A universe in which she did sleep with him again, and showed concern for him, which gets even more bizarre.   She's a cop, and he's a murderer entrenched in the mafia.  

 

And then he raped her while she was unconscious.   And the whole 'I didn't know, it was the Darkness' thing is just a cop out: it gives Jackie and Sara a reason (not a very good one, but a reason) for her to blow off the rape.

 

Seeley can't say, 'no, this isn't how it happened, this isn't the real universe.'   He has an event he's playing off, an event that are based on these facts.  Sara did have to deal with this at one point, in which she says she's allowing Jackie to keep his family despite what he's taken from her.   (Although at other points, she doesn't seem to remember Hope so I'm not sure if that's what she's talking about.)

 

For whatever reason, Seeley hasn't had to deal with Sara, Jackie and Hope yet.   However, he is writing Sara as pretty kickass, even after all the shit she's been through.   I'm hoping he continues to write her this way, although the whole Marz's run going downhill has me a bit skeptical.   For what it's worth, this reboot is good enough for me to continue with volume two for now.