…either that, or 52 has some rather lazy writers.

Now, this may not be as lazy as Scott McDaniel’s refusal to draw the lines of Green Arrow’s bowstring, but it is real fucking obnoxious. When I saw this panel I immediately thought that Luthor’s comment was about the fact that his researchers have filled their report with sa;olkda;lskdl;sakd;la keyboard doodling. It’s not even random doodling, it’s the same eight or so keys!

For a book that has four perfectly capable writers (one of which being a genius) it is pretty unacceptable for this laziness and scene killing crap to make an appearance. And this is not the first time, too! Nearly all background text is nothing but random letters.

This has to stop!

Today I was surfing Comicvine, the new superhero wiki/internet crack, when I noticed that X-23 had been attributed with the “power” of Attractive Female. My initial response was offense, but that quickly changed to pity. You see, Comicvine has a cool ranking system for all of the powers given to characters. This is a ton of fun when you’re voting on which characters could win in a fight but when it comes to ranking the Attractive Female “power”, it would be nothing more than voting on which fictional character is the hottest. That’s just fucking sad.

I made a bit of a stink on the forums about it, calling it ridiculous and asking why there wasn’t a “Man Candy” power. Well, turns out there is! The only problem is that not too many people seem to be making much use of it. I wonder why.

So fangirls, I implore you to go to Comicvine, sign up, and let the world know who the hunks of comics are. I marked Batman and Nightwing as “Attractive Males” since I know both get more ladies than they can handle. But other than that, I have no clue who the fangirls (and plenty of the fanboys) out there are fawning over. So go set the record straight!

Correction: You don’t even need to sign up to vote in the superhero beauty pageant.