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Been doing a re-read of Zatanna, start to finish. As an aside, I'm excited to see JHW3's Zatanna in 7S#1.
Tim Ravenwind's comments about the hungry ghosts of the Daathian Frontier made me picture him as some Kabalistic Cowboy, armed with spirit six-shooters and a pale, winged horse. Which barely fits with Tim in his tux, a bit effete if all were said and done, an intellectual. But I could see him imagining himself as that cowboy, out there in the darkness.
Zatanna walking on water like glass.
Compare #4, Misty & Zee on the end of the world: "Oh, look! Black Flowers. One day they'll cover the whole Earth. The sun will be red and all the seas will have turned to fog. It must have started here." / "Hey, gloom-cookie! It's not the end of the world yet." / "No, it's just what happens." / "Well, you know what they say in the movies...not on my watch."
...with Misty & Zee on the end of the world, from #1: "It might not happen." / "Huh?" / "The end of the world, the way you said. Sign my book?" / "Oh, don't you worry about that stuff. I didn't mean to scare anybody but myself."
It's just a nice bit of repetition and characterization at the same time; Misty knows what must come, while even at her worst, Zatanna can't see the apocalypse as the ultimate end; it's just today's threat. The latest, but hardly the greatest. There's always an answer. And I like how it shows that as cool and wonderful as Zee is, she's utterly oblivious half the time, and so caught up in the superhero game, even when she's punishing herself.
Zatanna as the Books of Zatara: Even with the nitty-gritty Earth of superheroes and the wisecracking Air of sarcasm, Zee offers Cassandra a little itty-bit cup of water almost without thinking. It was a little side-note of character, but I liked it; again, even when down she's attuned to what needs to be done, even when it's "just" keeping everybody calm and focused.
Misty Kilgore = Kilgore Trout, as mentioned way long ago upthread, but with KT comes KVonnegut and authors entering their novels to apologize for past wrongs (cf. Animal Man) and, potentially, characters rising up from their novels (Zatanna, in #4) - also jibes with Chad's ideas about the layered cube-within-cube universes. Misty entered the box.
Zatanna sports a different look every issue but is always in costume. Shades of Shadowcat!
I'm still a little sad that we don't get to see breakfast with the Phantom Stranger.
Ali in Shining Knight #2, "Horsefeathers." Coughing up feathers - in relation to Zor eating the dove's head. The chilling: "This is a ghost story, Zatanna. Ghosts will understand." I like that line. It's very small and sad and careful. They aren't meant to understand everything happening in front of them.
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