Scott Lobdell is just all about the ladies as writer of DC's Red Hood and the Outlaws and Teen Titans. I'm a heterosexual youngish man who absolutely loves cheesecake, but I have got to say that the sexuality of DC's 'New 52' comes off as misogynistic, creepy, and somewhat ill-informed. I feel like these books are written from a perspective of an angst pre-adolescent who hasn't yet spent enough time with women to understand sexiness.

I'm looking at you, too, Judd Winick, though one suspects this is all trickling down from Dan DiDio's office. This panel from page two of Teen Titans #2, in stores tomorrow (October 26), suggests that the women of DC's 'New 52' are still stuck in the schoolyard.

Catwoman has SO MANY new bras! Artist Richard Pace sums up the state of DC's new universe in this strip, which asks the characters t describe he the reboot affected them.

A big tip of the hat to comics great Ty Templeton, whose hilarious Bun Toons are clearly a big influence on the above piece.

In keeping with reports that the first month of the New 52 led to big sales boosts, DC has announced that Detective Comics #1 and Swamp Thing #1 are both getting third printings. Congrats to the creative teams behind both titles, and here's to continued success!

After extensive market research and using that fancy "Google" thing, the DC brain trust has determined that the kids like Doctor Who. Also popular are kittens, that guy from the Dos Equis ads, and something called the "troll-face". Will hold creative summit to research further.

I actually think that Batgirl is easily the best thing to come out of the New 52 so far, no surprise as the excellent Gail Simone is writing one of her signature characters. But DC Comics is taking a lot of heat today because, like Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before them, they have gone from shouting down any who question their wisdom to asking fans to do the job of the Editor-in-Chief, CCO and Publisher who are taking both credit and pay for their bold new creative directions.

Does the Warner board know that their budget is being used to crowdsource top-level Editorial jobs?

Lastly, Warners gets very little love for the way in which they've chosen to preview Batgirl #2 on EW.com - namely, teeny-tiny pictures and a hideous Flash-based magnifying glass thing. It's really not much fun, which is a shame since the issue looks great.

However, that is is a pretty glaring Karen Gillan swipe on the cover, amirite?

It is a scenario sadly, hilariously typical of an industry too arrogant and stupid to simply relate to its audience:

When Dan DiDio isn't berating fans, demanding to know how anyone could possibly be doing a better job than him, he is sending researchers to beg fans for advice on how to better do his job.

Of course, if you're directly on the receiving end of this behavior, it's not so funny. Patton Oswalt, who knows funny, has sworn off DC, not for their reboots, their nasty public berating of fans, or their shocking portrayal of women. He's sworn them off because he wants the right to spend his money at his comic shop without a Nielsen researcher getting in his face, demanding that he help them figure out how to write sell, and market comics - essentially, to do the job that a staff of editors, executive editors, publishers, and other high-ranking Warner Bros. executives are paid for rather handsomely. I can hardly blame Oswalt for, no pun intended, drawing the line and kissing DC goodbye, which he did on Twitter after being harangued by researchers while shopping at Meltdown Comics.

"Don't go to @MeltdownComics today unless you like getting buttonholed into douch-ey, stultifying 'New 52' surveys."

and:

"I also bought my last DC comics, EVER, today."

This is something we're going to see more of until the industry dials down the arrogance a bit. "Like what we tell you to like" is a refrain we've heard repeatedly from both of the big two, or "if you don't like it, don't buy it" - an attitude that changes dramatically when sales sink so low that jobs are on the line - then, they want fans' advice so badly that they resort to invasive methods like sending researchers to their LCS.

Fans love comics. If you treat them with a the tiniest fraction of respect, they will keep you in business for life. If you shout them down at cons and follow them around at stores, it shouldn't be shocking if they slowly start to drift away.

Carter Hall makes his New 52 premiere tomorrow, as DC releases Savage Hawkman #1 by Tony Daniel and Philip Tan. Check out the preview below!

Carter Hall's skill at deciphering lost languages has led him to a job with an archaeologist who specializes in alien ruins - but will the doctor's latest discovery spread an alien plague through New York City?

No matter the personal cost, Carter Hall must don his wings and become the new, savage Hawkman to survive! Witness the start of a new action series from writer Tony S. Daniel and artist Philip Tan that will take Hawkman where no hero has flown before!

What? They're confident, self-actualized males, it's totally normal!

This cartoon by artist "monkeyscandance" is the latest in a long line of reader responses to the bizarre portrayal of Starfire as an emotionally stunted frat boy's fantasy in Red Hood and the Outlaws. Behold, the "empowered" male. Your move, DC.

Justice League Dark #1, written by Peter Milligan with interior art by Mikel Janin and cover art by Ryan Sook, hits stores on Wednesday. DC's occult heroes enter the New 52 as a mad Enchantress fights the Justice League to a standstill and so it's time to fight magic with magic. Check out the preview below.

The witch known as The Enchantress has gone mad, unleashing forces that not even the combined powers of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg can stop. And if those heroes can't handle the job, who will stand against this mystical madness?

Shade the Changing Man, Madame Xanadu, Deadman, Zatanna and John Constantine may be our only hope - but how can we put our trust in beings whose very presence makes ordinary people break out in a cold sweat?

In case you missed it, this week's Catwoman #1 and Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 did more to undermine DC's reputation as a female-friendly publisher than a dozen Dan DiDio Comic-Con panels. We're all dealing with the fallout in different ways, DC is continuing it's stance of 'if you don't like it, don't buy it' which is an odd but sadly commonplace attitude for a company in a desperate downward sales spiral.

Those of us who love comics and are therefore something of a captive audience, like artist Eric Canete, are dealing with the craziness by having a good laugh, and imagining what happens after the Cat and the Bat get their luv thang on.

Red Hood was so full of WTF that it sort of defies parodying as far as I can see - though if anyone out there wants to give it a go, by all means have at it and send me a link!