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It's Sook, most definitely.

It's a nice piece of art, I admit, but as an advert it didn't exactly have the desired effect on me. My thought processes, pretty much: "This GREEN ARROW miniseries isn't bad. In fact, this BLACK CANARY miniseries isn't bad either. You know, maybe I'll pick up that wedding story they're building to... what? COUNTDOWN? Run away! Run away!"

I feel you re: Countdown, Paul, but I think DC is just literally putting "Countdown" on every story they have, whether it really has to do with it or not, so I don't let it me dissuade me (yet ).

Wouldn't it be funny if it was Acuna colouring Sook?

I thought it was maybe Adam Hughes, from the colours. I don't think it's Acuna though, the detail is a little fine for him. I may be wrong though.

I'm still of two minds about this. One one hand, I've been reading GA since the Kevin Smith relaunch, enjoy the character and whathaveyou, and as Paul says, I've been enjoying the minis at the moment as well. But still... I'm not super-psyched about it. It's be fine if it was running in GA with a new creative team, but the idea of relaunching the series and having a confusing slew of one-shots is a bit money-grubbing to my eyes. I'm still getting Countdown (it's a 2.99 reminder that Final Crisis is coming out in... 39 weeks!!), so I'll probably end up getting this too as it's on my pull-list since I'm a GA fan. But is that how I want to get a book? Through apathy and laziness to cancel it, so when it comes out it'll be in my bag like-it-or-not?

And, unless the Wedding Planner has something shocking up it's sleeves, how crappy is that going to be? I've seen the people in my comic shop, they're not really the market for the 'girliest book DC has ever done'. Are they? Actually, thinking again, one of them does buy Shi and Ant, so I may be wrong.

meh.

Feels rather standard to me.

I feel no sense of movement from the villains, and the fact the two characters aren't reacting to them just adds to the static feeling of it.

Actually, thinking again, one of them does buy Shi and Ant, so I may be wrong.

Are Shi and Ant 'girly' books, or books with female protagonists?
From the pics I've seen of Ant, it doesn't look like it's chasing a female audience.

Yeah, I was perhaps disingenuously suggesting that most readers of this book will be buying it fr the lovingly rendered cheesecake artwork (or at least, the expectation thereof, although saying that I do really like Amanda Conner's cover, it's funky) rather than the expectation of a good story. Do the readers of RapeySadFaceDC (tm barbelith, thanks guys) want a simple, 'girly' book about planning a wedding?

I think it smells a little of DC pandering to 'women' (like with he Supergirl debacle), when the females that are reading DC books are most likely in it for the spandex and facepunching anyway, like the boys. It feels a little like 'hey, girls like weddings! Lets make a wedding book and give it a pink cover, they'll flip for it!', when really, most women that I've heard speak on the matter would prefer decent characterization and plots than patronizing stunts, again, just like the boys, but in a different skew.

That said, what do I know, they might be fun books. I'm enjoying the Black Canary mini right now, and I thought I'd hate that, so my end reaction may differ from my initial impression.

most women that I’ve heard speak on the matter would prefer decent characterization and plots than patronizing stunts, again, just like the boys, but in a different skew.

Wait...the boys want decent characterization and plots rather than patronizing stunts? Based on the success of the Didio's DC from Identity Crisis onward, I'm not so sure of that.

Well guys, I'm a woman, and I must admit that I don't mind being pandered to...for a change. But as has also been pointed out, Green Arrow has been pretty good, so has Black Canary, and I'd prefer to have a wedding instead of a funeral...again, for a change.

Is DC's new ad thing pretending like some omniscient person carved the titles out of stone just before the picture was taken?

I'm betting Final Crisis involves a lot of sculpting.