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Never going to get over how Dinah’s expression after getting beaten up by Shiva was the same giddiness of a new crush.
I know Dinah was making heart eyes when she got slammed on the mat.
"She was fantastic." Oh I bet she was.
So How About That Batgirl #3
I didn't transplant my review of #2 here because there wasn't that much more to say, especially in regards to Lady Shiva (which is always the most important part of any comic with her in it for me) but #3, hooo boy, there's a lot to talk about for this one.
It introduces, or maybe just expands, a concept that kinda had me feeling a bit nervous but eventually won me over, and still has room for some fun narrative trickery. So I'm gonna go ahead and post my full review of the issue down here:
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To Dinah, probably
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Maybe I inflate Shiva's friendship with Richard Dragon and Ben Turner a little bit... especially since it hasn't been properly portrayed since the 70s (unless you count the Soul of the Dragon movie) but the three of them are good friends and I know it in my heart
They absolutely should be and every now and then Shiva and Ben should crash Richard's mountain shed out of nowhere screaming "HARK, GREAT HERMIT MASTER OF THE MOUNTAIN! WE COME TO SHARE GRAVE TIDINGS FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD!" like a pair of jackasses.
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LADY SHIVA/SANDRA WU SAN & VIC SAGE/THE QUESTION in THE QUESTION (1987)
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LADY SHIVA/SANDRA WU SAN in THE QUESTION (1997)
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here have the full sized version
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Dinah Lance and Lady Shiva: two of the best fighters in the world, one an assassin and the other a superhero. They have an incredibly interesting (and shippy) relationship, and I love it.
Birds of Prey (1999) #63
It can be really hard to figure out which comics to read to find a ship's interactions, so hopefully this helps someone! If I missed anything, please let me know!
Birds of Prey (1999) #94
- Birds of Prey (1999) #62-67 - Dinah and Shiva have to team up to get justice for their shared sensei
- Birds of Prey (1999) #92-95 - a follow up to the above, in which Dinah and Shiva temporarily swap lives
- Black Canary: Best of the Best #1-4 - currently ongoing
(If you're looking for a more exhaustive reading list, I personally like this list as a starting place for Lady Shiva, and I think this list contains a pretty good guide to Dinah as well as the rest of the Arrowfam.)
Sorry for jumping outta the blue, but if you want to read Dinah and Shiva's first (and very shippy) meeting, check out the 1988 GREEN ARROW annual:
Dynamic motherfucking entry, from BATGIRL #2 by Tate Brombal, Tak Miyazawa and Mike Spicer.
Bonus: call-and-answer.
Man, I know that King mentioned repeatedly in interviews that he was actively not writing Lady Shiva as a character in BLACK CANARY: BEST OF THE BEST and just as a pure physical challenge/evil wrestling heel, so I kinda knew what to expect, but...
It's still a little nuts that Shiva gets the first line of dialogue in Brombal/Miyazawa's BATGIRL, and then literally no lines of dialogue at all in BLACK CANARY along with a very real possibility that her only line of dialogue in the comic is going to be "I give up."
So About That BATGIRL #1...
I put this review up in another site, but since folks here on Tumblr seem to be realizing I have a lot of Thoughts about Lady Shiva, I figured I'd transplant it here. So here's how I feel about it. The short of it is that I think it's a strong start with a few small quibbles because I'm not sure how much of Shiva's writing is her being intentionally OOC and how much is Brombal trying to humanize her.
The long is here:
Anonymous asked:
Issue one of Absolute Batman indirectly confirms that Ras Al Gul and the League of Assassin's exists in the Absolute Universe, what do you think and Absolute Lady Shiva would be like or how would you go about it
Well, I wouldn't involve the LoA at all, that's for sure.
But the thing about Absolute is that, so far, there doesn't seem to be any set rules for what an "Absolute" character means other than a retelling. Does it mean more grounded version? More altered versions? More gritty versions? There's nothing set in stone as far as I can tell, so it's hard to extrapolate what an Absolute Shiva would look like.
However, if you told me to come up with one, here's what I'd do:
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The fact that Shiva hasn’t appeared in any DC fighting game to my knowledge is a crime and completely idiotic, she’s right there. She’d love it, you can’t say it wouldn’t be in character for her to just Be There.
Oh, you wanna hear a fun story?
Back in the late 2000s, dev studio Double Helix had been hired to make a Justice League fighter/brawler game for the Xbox 360. The game was planned to come out around the same time as George Miller's Justice League: Mortal movie, not as a direct tie-in but as a "Hey here's another Justice League thing for you!"
The movie getting cancelled shitcanned the game, and although some parts of it were recycled into the Green Lantern movie game, the Justice League brawler never came out... which is a shame because guess who was one of the characters in it.
Yes, Lady Shiva was planned for this game. The game was far enough into development that there's a playable build out there that you can run in an emulator/Xbox 360, and there's a few gameplay videos of full fights up on YouTube, including some cool slashy Shiva action.
And just to show just how far into development they were, she even has an alternate costume: her Hush bodysuit.
The game itself is... fine. The build I played made me feel like it would've been a solid 7/10 had it come out. But more importantly, it would've been Shiva's first appearance in a fighting game. Which of course would've made the game an instant 11/10.
Especially since her grab attack is a goddamn Izuna Drop.
Couple of cool, cute and just a li'l bit cranky Lady Shivas from the excellent SunatiXD in twitter.
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One of the best parts about Shiva is when she feels like she exists in a separate genre from everyone else.
Part of what makes Shiva so compelling in Question is that she's pretty much a wuxia wandering warrior stepping into a gritty hard-boiled crime story and it absolutely rules.
Two-fisted tough guy vigilante Vic Sage, supremely confident that he's ready for anything these mean streets can throw at him, runs into what's basically Michelle Yeoh in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and he cannot handle it physically, mentally or spiritually.
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I feel like we should all just take this in more. Series writer Tate Brombal tweeted this earlier today of another panel by artist Takeshi Miyazawa for the new Batgirl series out November 6th.
Just TAKE IT ALL IN!