Shirtless Saturday - Buffy and Satsu

Of course, over at Dark Horse lovers do get nekkid.

That sound you hear is the thunder created by hundreds of thousands of fanfics spontaneously combusting, accompanied by the weeping of their authors. And as many more authors crying, "Yes!"

(From Buffy Season Eight #12.)

Shirtless Saturday - Renee Montoya and friend

Yes, in the DC universe, only heterosexual lovers actually get naked with each other. Actually, I suppose if the ghost of Mort Weisinger had anything to do with it, nobody would get naked in the DC universe. I mean, even Superman wore jammies. Yes, with his uniform under them, of course, just in case.

What's that? Mort Who? Never mind. Old joke. I doubt that anything that happend in 52 would have happened if he were still around.

Anyway, here's Renee Montoya, barely recognizable from her origins in Batman: The Animated Series, cuddling with... with... Darn, did we ever find out who that is? She calls Renee by name several times when she starts shooting at their intruder (Vic Sage, aka The Question), but Renee never does call her name. Ah, well. Life's rough in the Old Supporting Characters' Home. We don't see her again, anyway.

Maybe she's Lucy Lane. That would explain a lot about Lucy's relationship with Jimmy Olsen.

(From 52 #2.)

Dave Stevens

July 29, 1955 - March 10, 2008

MORE: I won't try to keep up with the outpouring of grief and respect from the comics community, but I would be remiss not to link to Heidi MacDonald and Mark Evanier.

Shirtless Saturday - Princess Diana of Themyscira

Why is it that so many writers can spend so many years struggling with Wonder Woman's role in the DC comics "trinity", but Darwyn Cooke can nail it in 24 pages?

This isn't it, of course. This is just a thin excuse to have her remove her top.

Well, that's OK too.

[From Justice League New Frontier Special #1.]

Shirtless Saturday - Giganta

Why, hello, Giganta, I didn't expect to see you in Ivy Town.

But then, how could I miss you, you're thirty feet tall. And fighting off an army of bug-things from atop the tallest building in town. (Which, this being Ivy Town, is only what, four stories?)

And naked. Yeah, that is hard to miss.

Say, lady, where's the local superhero? ...You swallowed him? Well, you know what they say, it's hard to keep a good man down.

(From All-New Atom #4.)

All is forgiven

Thank you for this panel, guys. I take back everything I said going into the Mary Marvel arc of Countdown.

There are still some unanswered questions, as in how long have the Old Gods been imprisoned in a StarGate (well, that's what it looked like to me) on Apokolips? But I'm willing to wait a little for the answer to that.

Shirtless Saturday - Kitty & Piotr

From the immortal Astonishing X-Men 12. Ah, Kitty, my girl, I hardly recognized you. I mean, when I first met you, you didn't even have an ass, and now look at you.

And you, Piotr... Well, with a name like "Colossus" I guess you don't think much of yourself, do you?

Putting the War in Wardrobe

Okay, let's be honest here. How many of you were hoping Donna Troy would keep "this old thing" she took away from the Wonder Girl of Earth-51 in Countdown 15? I know I was.

On the other hand, I'm wondering in what condition she left Donna-51 when she took it. Neck broken? Burned to a crisp? Alive but unconscious and naked? I guess this is academic now, since Supersnot-Prime's little snit fit has completely destroyed U-51. But fandom is built on trivia such as this. (Hands up, everybody who thinks we've really seen the last of Supersnot-Prime. Anyone? Anyone?)

Of course, I was also hoping Donna might keep that breathtaking suit she was wearing in Wonder Woman v3#1.


I suppose you might get the idea I don't like the star-spangled black she's currently wearing. You'd be right. I like it as a motif, an accent, but not as the primary (or, really, only) design element.

LATER: Another thing that struck me during the brief conflict between Donna-1 and Donna-51: All things considered, which one is "Dark Donna"?

i haz a kapshun; let me show u it

Living Between Wednesdays haz a kontezt, let Rachelle show you it.

Shirtless Saturday - Dick and Kory

Aah, you kids today, you don't know when you've got it good. These days, everybody this side of Mary Marvel is changing clothes on-panel. In my day, when we wanted to see superheroes with no shirts on, we had to buy Teen Titans and ogle big-haired Princess Koriand'r. Even though she managed to mention almost every issue that her people had no modesty taboos, we never actually saw anything. Damn that Comics Code.

Hey, you! Get off my lawn!

(Image and other implications found at What Were They Thinking?!)