Batgirl #13 - The actual cover has a word balloon on it. Steph saying 'Oh, that's just gross!' with "gross" in big, green letters. It works against the cover, though, because the image looks like it's supposed to be horrifying in an "enveloped by the Blob" way, but the quote is something I'd associate with seeing a drunk college kid puke right in front of you at a party. Wonder who decided to put it there?The story for the issue is Steph saves Detective Gage from a SPLAT! death, chases Clayface into a bank, then has to find Clayface amongst the bank customers and employees, and stop him. Except finding Clayface doesn't take very long, so it's the stopping him that takes the most time. That wasn't terribly interesting. There's a "two Batgirls" sequence so we can have the bit where the real one convinces someone (in this case Detective Gage) they are the real one, then Steph freezes him while thinking "When in Rome. . ." which made no sense to me. No one had been freezing anything prior to that in the issue, so the line came out of nowhere to me.
Pere Perez is the penciler for the issue. The art is OK, similar enough to Lee Garbett's it's not a jarring shift from last issue. There do seem to be several panels where people have wide-open eyes and slightly deranged looks on their faces. Maybe it's how Perez draws smiles, but they don't make characters look friendly, more creepy.
I can't figure out how Gage made it inside the bank. He wasn't there by the time Batgirl initiated the lockdown, but he is there by the time of the 2 Batgirls sequence. Best I can figure is an employee canceled the lockdown, but the shutters that came down when it was activated are still in place, so I don't know.
Thanos Imperative #3 - This is largely an exposition issue. Thanos and the Guardians of the Galaxy learn how Death was destroyed in the Cancerverse, and what they need to do to reverse it. Meanwhile, Cancerverse Mar-Vell is learning what happened to his counterpart, and that something happened to some of his followers back in the Cancerverse. On top of that, Nova is rallying the troops for a precise, powerful strike against the enemies. Things get jumping at the end of the issue when Drax, just as he did in Annihilation, lets the purpose he was created for get the best of him. I figure next issue, there'll be a whole lot of exploding going on, now that at least some of the pieces are in place. Might be even more of it in issue #5, which would be nice, ramp things up as they go along.I still don't love Sepulveda's art, but I like that until things get crazy, Drax is always behind Thanos, he always has a line of fire to him, and he's almost always drilling holes in Thanos' back with his stare (the exception being two panels where he gets caught up in an argument with Star-Lord). That was nice. There was one screwed up panel, not sure whose screw-up it was. Evil Scarlet Witch is reporting to Evil Mar-Vell about the disturbance, and one panel shows Namorita and Major Victory exchanging a glance. The dialogue, which is still the Witch's, is coming from Namorita. I'm guessing the speech balloon is just pointing the wrong way (and out to be pointing off-panel), but maybe it was supposed to be Mar-Vell and Wanda exchanging a look?
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