There's an issue of Iron Man that doesn't have Iron Man in it?
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Laga - Apr 14, 2011 1:24:47 pm PDT #3454 of 5059
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Strega - Apr 14, 2011 1:47:44 pm PDT #3455 of 5059
That's Fraction for you. (It was the annual last year about the Mandarin.)
Polter-Cow - Apr 14, 2011 2:06:46 pm PDT #3456 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha, of course it was Fraction. I was surprised you hadn't read any of his other IM stuff.
On an unrelated note, I read Batman: Cataclysm when I was staying with Jars and was so disappointed. It took half the book for an issue to be something other than "OMG EARTHQUAKE!" And even then it was only mildly interesting.
On a different unrelated note, I read the latest Fables trade and it's reinvigorated my love of the series. Still going strong after 100 issues.
§ ita § - Apr 14, 2011 2:12:43 pm PDT #3457 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't remember what Willingham did that made me stop reading him. Time to go look at Wikipedia, I guess.
Steph L. - Apr 14, 2011 2:58:36 pm PDT #3458 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Ugh. The bullshit with Leslie Tompkins letting Stephanie Brown die to teach Batman a lesson. (Which has since been retconned like crazy.)
§ ita § - Apr 14, 2011 3:04:05 pm PDT #3459 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ah, thank you. I remember him being a prick about it, and basically daring people to stop reading him, so I decided why not? It was remarkably easy. He's good, but he's not special.
Under whose hand was it retconned?
Steph L. - Apr 14, 2011 3:32:44 pm PDT #3460 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Under whose hand was it retconned?
Man, I cannot remember. It was post-One Year Later; that's about all I remember.
Strega - Apr 14, 2011 8:50:24 pm PDT #3461 of 5059
I was surprised you hadn't read any of his other IM stuff.
I may try it in trades at some point, I dunno. He's in the Ellis category where... I love them, but not quite enough to dive into ongoing books. I think only Morrison can get me to do that. 'Cause obviously he's a wizard.
Tom Scola - Apr 15, 2011 6:14:40 am PDT #3462 of 5059
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Batman started to go downhill once Denny O'Neil retired as the editor of the Batman titles, at the end of the Bruce Wayne: Murderer arc. The dude knows his Batman.
P.M. Marc - Apr 15, 2011 6:32:10 am PDT #3463 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
I honestly don't think that Objectivists would consider risking one's life (or risk of any kind, for that matter) to be inherently irrational if its done in the pursuit of something you value. In its own nutty way it's actually an ends-justify-the-means approach, not a cost/benefit check.
I'm fairly sure it happened in at least one or two Ayn Rand books, but it's been 20 years since my obsession with the crazy lady and my brief period of Objectivist Identification Syndrome. (Mind you, this does not stop me from wanting to scream at certain political people that Ayn Rand was a pro-choice atheist who couldn't support Ronald Reagan because of his stand on abortion, so she'd be rolling in her grave at them.)