Dinosaur Comics addresses the narratives difficulties in using Superman as a character.
It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!
Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!
Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.
DavidS - Feb 27, 2007 1:01:42 pm PST #186 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
esse - Feb 27, 2007 11:13:24 pm PST #187 of 5059
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
And Polite Dissent brings the badfic for Reed Richards in the most recent Civil War: [link]
sumi - Feb 28, 2007 6:34:41 pm PST #188 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
Drew Goddard is going to do the arc of Buffy season 8 after Brian K. Vaughn's arc. (From the Dark Horse Buffy Zone.)
P.M. Marc - Mar 01, 2007 6:37:34 am PST #189 of 5059
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
sumi - Mar 01, 2007 7:52:49 am PST #190 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
Go you!
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2007 9:25:09 am PST #191 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Way cool, Plei!
Question: I haven't been reading comics for the past few months. What's Batgirl up to? Still ruined?
Steph L. - Mar 01, 2007 1:20:49 pm PST #192 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
ita, the latest issue of Teen Titans gives the impression that Deathstroke has been pumping her full of his wacky serum thingie, and that that's what made her go all bad. Or, at least, it's implied that that's the reason for her going bad.
Dude, copout.
Maybe. It could still play out in a manner pleasing to me.
DavidS - Mar 01, 2007 2:04:47 pm PST #193 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dude, copout.
I hate that! It's Willow's magic addiction all over. Let characters choose to be bad and make mistakes, otherwise you're gutting the narrative.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2007 2:18:29 pm PST #194 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Let characters choose to be bad and make mistakes, otherwise you're gutting the narrative.
If you can do so in character. It'd have taken a miracle to non-copout explain her particular insanity. Serum? Fine. Just take her off it and stop fucking with a pretty cool character.
sumi - Mar 02, 2007 10:32:32 am PST #195 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
Interview with Joss, Brian K. Vaughn and Jeph Loeb over at Wizard.
ETA: okay the picture doesn't work. Click on it in the article. It's fun.
More spoilery Joss interview at IGN. (And more pictures too.)