Welcome back!

I know posts have been a bit lacking on the blog but I’ve been talkative everywhere else I promise. I stopped buying comics back in 2022. The last single issues I purchased was Catwoman: Lonely City #1 and #2. I once was a comic content creator. Talking about lady-led DC and Marvel comics, I was enjoying, and what I wanted to see in their media counterparts. I even reviewed comics for Comicosity, and had my own column at Her Story Arc if you’ve been around enough to remember that.

One of my favorite comic artists, Babs Tarr was talking about her latest project; Sirens: Love Hurts on Instagram a few weeks ago and I was obsessed. I still ocassionally read Tradebacks, and completed series that I could read in a single sitting.

So for the first time in almost 4 years, I headed out to a comic shop close to where I work to see if I could find this series. Love Hurts #1 written by Tini Howard and drawn by Babs Tarr was released on February 11th, as part of DC’s Black Label. While wandering around the shop I grabbed two different copies of issue one, the stock cover with Tarr’s art and the Variant that features Derrick Chew’s Black Canary, because how could I actually leave it behind?

While walking around the shop, I also found out that Marvel is currently running a Black Cat Series?! Why had I not heard anything about this?! Wilson and Hughes make a formidable team, and I’m so excited to sink into this story. I was able to grab issues one, four, six, and seven, and I’m hoping I can find the back issues 2, 3, and 5 somewhere else in the city, but at least I can start the story.

Today I finished Sirens: Love Hurts #1 and I have thoughts. I already knew I was going to love it because it was giving the same vibes as A-force from Marvel. An all ladies team trying to solve an issue that was important but not enough to have proper eyes on, because of the patriarchy. The Sirens; Pamela, Harley Selina are brought together at a brunch, because Dinah is seeing a trend of deaths of women in Gotham that are being swept under the rug.

These deaths are brutal stabbings, which, because the ladies work as Bottle service girls, the police see them as disposable and tell the news that her death is a suicide. When it’s clear that they aren’t going to do what they should (What else is new?), the girls decide that it’s up to them to figure out what’s going on.

I love the levity that is woven throughout the story, I love the slice of life views that we get to see from some of our favorite characters, and the fashion and art are amazing. As a Black comic reader, a Black Selina Kyle is everything to me, and I am so excited to see what’s going on with Ollie and Dinah; they’re ENGAGED!

I’m also so excited that Ivy and Harley have been a couple or close to a couple in almost everything I’ve read in the past few years, and I’m so glad that she’s finally escaped the Joker and they have stopped trying to make that happen.

I’m giving the first issue 🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕 and I’m so excited to read the next issue! Do you have a favorite comic artist? Any single issues you’re looking forward too? Tell me down below!

Until next time,

Gabs

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