For decades, people have asked “What does Batman keep in his utility belt?” The answer has always been Schrodinger’s necessity: Whatever the story needs him to have or lack at that precise moment. Recently, a story needed him to have lollipops.
Why? Because he joined a Justice League search party to figure out if Superman’s lost son had been kidnapped by a supervillain or swallowed by a time vortex or broken through to an underground mole civilization — a perfectly reasonable worry to have. But it turns out Jon just went out flying at night like he was told not to, traveled a little too far, got lost, and panicked.
Poor Jon.
What else is happening in the pages of our favorite comics? We’ll tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. There may not be enough context. But there will be great comics. (And if you missed the last edition, read this.)
There’s a run of four entire pages in this issue of Nightwing that all have a moment worthy of putting in the roundup, but the purpose of the whole flashback to the first time Batman and Superman’s oldest kids met each other is to remind the reader that this is what being Robin was all about for Dick. Helping Batman to only scare people he wanted to scare, not the people he was trying to help.
Fans of Grant Morrison’s X-Men run will be pleased to know that No-Girl finally got her own body instead of being a floating brain in a jar! Her new mutant name is Cerebella! This is adorable!
With the final issue of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow I can definitively say this book slaps
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