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§ ita § - Mar 06, 2009 10:19:00 am PST #2138 of 5059

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

S_D fallout continues: Apparently LJ's Abuse Team is sending letters about Marvel content posted to the comm, and threatening suspension if the letters are reposted anywhere.

Man, if LJ ever cleared out all the copyrighted content posted in it, there'd be a lot of sad puppies. Including me.

Consuela - Mar 06, 2009 9:24:01 pm PST #2139 of 5059

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

and threatening suspension if the letters are reposted anywhere.

Well, that doesn't make any sense. Why not let the word get out about what is forbidden and what isn't?

Torque - Mar 06, 2009 11:05:39 pm PST #2140 of 5059

Bad Wolf

fyi watchmen rocked my socks off

Tom Scola - Mar 07, 2009 1:43:39 am PST #2141 of 5059

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The NYT now has a Graphic Books bestseller list.

Cashmere - Mar 07, 2009 4:30:32 am PST #2142 of 5059

Now tagless for your comfort.

Torque, did you see it in Imax? My comic book guy was driving down to Madison to see it in Imax.

Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 07, 2009 5:00:09 am PST #2143 of 5059

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Well, that doesn't make any sense. Why not let the word get out about what is forbidden and what isn't?

Because letting customers know what is and is not grounds for abrupt journal deletion would actually make sense. I think that's against the new owners' business model.

Steph L. - Mar 07, 2009 6:12:16 am PST #2144 of 5059

I look more rad than Lutheranism

I think that's against the new owners' business model.

Same as the old business model.

Steph L. - Mar 07, 2009 6:21:58 am PST #2145 of 5059

I look more rad than Lutheranism

The NYT now has a Graphic Books bestseller list.

You know, the first sentence of the blurb preceding the list pretty much illustrates (see what I did there?) why the NYT is becoming really, really irrelevant. News/finance articles, fine. But when it comes to their Life/Society/Fashion pieces, they are so out of touch that it's mindboggling.

First sentence:

Comics have finally joined the mainstream.

I won't argue that comics haven't always been "mainstream." Certainly they were long considered the domain of kids and geeks. (And probably still are, really. Comic *books,* that is.)

But I'd say that the first Spider-Man movie yanked comics -- in the sense of the stories they tell, and how those stories are a part of pop culture -- firmly into the mainstream. Or the first X-Men movie, whichever came first. And that was close to 10 years ago.

t edit And really, do they not remember the Superman movies of the 80s? (Was it 70s?) Pretty popular.

t /cranky comics geek

Laga - Mar 07, 2009 7:12:06 am PST #2146 of 5059

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Superman had his own TV show in the 50s. Before that he was on the radio.

Steph L. - Mar 07, 2009 7:50:49 am PST #2147 of 5059

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Uh, I know. I don't think that proves that comics were "mainstream" back then, though.

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