What I Bought 10/12/2025

I saw Serena Williams in a commercial for one of those weight-loss injection things. The notion she felt she needed to lose weight is not doing anything good for my self-image. (Though I remain unconvinced of the long-term viability of those injections. They seem like artificial appetite suppressants, and I know from experience your body adapts if you just cut way back on calories.)

Anyway, here's the one comic from this week I wanted. I haven't found Bronze Faces #5 anywhere yet, and I didn't want to order from the online shop just for Runaways #4, so hopefully I'll get to those two at some point.

Batgirl #12, by Tate Brombal (writer), Takeshi Miyazawa (penciler/inker), Juan Castro (inker), Mike Spicer (colorist), Tom Napolitano (letterer) -  It would be pretty freaky to look up and see the Bat-signal, and then Batgirl seemingly drops out of it directly onto your face.

Cassandra is traveling with her new half-brother and Jaya to see Nyssa Al'Ghul. She's trying to train up Tenji, while Jaya is teaching both of them about healing through chi and chakras and whatnot. That's not so bad. Cass is also having nightmares about killing, about Shiva demanding to be avenged, and when Oracle tries contacting her, Cass turns off the communicator. Not great signs.

Nyssa has some lair in a weird place inside a mountain in the Himalayas, which is supposedly open to anyone looking to heal. And she's not prepared to let the Unburied tear down her little fiefdom, so she'd like Cassandra's help. Tenji says no, heroes don't work with villains. Oh, wow, where do you even start with that? Bronze Tiger really ought to have shared a few stories from the Suicide Squad days with his kid.

Cass, however, is in. Especially since the plan is the same one Shiva proposed: Find the Unburied's supply of the special blue flowers, and destroy it. Great, let's get the fuck on with it then. Also, I know it's relevant to Nyssa and Cassandra's backstory, but I really wish Brombal would quit bringing up the post-Infinite Crisis "Evil Cass" stuff. Just leave it in the dumpster of my memory where it belongs.

Then the big loud one of the Unburied, captured by Nyssa's crew at the beginning of the issue, busts loose, and Cass takes him down with Shiva's sword in one page. The small panels showing where she's cutting suggest she's not killing, but going hacky-slashy is probably a development to be concerned about. Still, it's nice to see her kicking some ass. Maybe she's settled on a course of action now, though it remains to be seen how she plans to go about getting her "justice."