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Perfect thing for a Saturday morning (esp. when you're at work).

SPOILERS if you haven't read it.
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Sore muscles were not a familiar experience for Poison Ivy. There was a curious ball of tight ache above each knee and a coiled gnawing sensation running up the back of each thigh.

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Hm, subtle sexual imagery here . . . or maybe it's just me

And the sympathy goes right out the window. It would have to be Poison Ivy, who probably more than any other Rogue likes doing things the easy way. Ivy is the Omarosa of the Gotham world.

. . . Sorry, I watch The Apprentice too much. Last night while watching an episode on tape, it occurred to me that Diana was the Omarosa of the superhero world. Go ahead, I dare you to deny it

Anyway, Ivy's like the kid who walks into a strip mall karate gym expecting to learn how to dominate the schoolyard in a week's time, and then finds out it involves work. (Cripes, doesn't she want to know how to fight? You know, like almost every other woman in the DC verse? Maybe Diana would be the perfect teacher here, not Selina.)

As for her trip to the shop, Miriam can remove the mat, because something wicked has just left the building.

Although the wicked part really doesn't apply to her. I think this part illustrates that with Pamela Isley, even if she wasn't an insane criminal, she'd still be a dangerous person. Because she has this combination of recklessness, carelessness, and laziness that forms a sort of unholy trinity of "Oops, did I do that?" Which, btw Miriam, is why you don't sell that sort of thing to amateurs? I'm not sure why what Ivy is about to do can have exponentially more dangerous affects than if any other non-practitioner was doing it, but Ivy is someone else who isn't really Subtle with a capital S.

(Why was she so tongue-tied in the store? Since when has she been a, no pun intended, wallflower? Maybe she can put this shop on her list of approved retailers with Aurora's Pots. I've never seen her so won over by a human being )

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Once they’d placed their orders, Giovanni made the rounds of the table. He took Selina’s menu from her hand, he took Bruce’s, he took Clark’s, he took Lois’s – and he replaced the last with a much thinker volume: REFLECTIONS by Diana, Princess of Themyscira.

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Again, there's really something to be said for the ability to slowly scroll down the window and get to a really great anticipatory moment where you can sit back, let go of the mouse, and imagine what comes next.

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There will always be the fanclub with nothing but fawning admiration; there will always be the opposition, every bit as extreme and determined; and in between there will ALWAYS be a vast, vast majority that kind of wish you’d shut up, but don’t really care one way or the other.”

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I've never heard Diana compared to the abortion debate, but hey, it works.

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Bruce considered the words solemnly as he finished the last bite of his sorbet. He set the spoon down and glanced across the table at his friend, a warm, genuine smile appearing on his face.

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This part I just love, because Bruce would never, could never have reacted in this manner one year ago. He would have just gone into Batman's grunt-glower-grunt "I won't dignify that with a response" mode.

As for Lois and Selina in the bathroom, Chris - very Natalie and Dana

This really has been so incredibly entertaining. I will be sorry when it's over.

Sincerely, Allaine