Worst. Reboot. Ever.

I barely read any DC titles, and yet I'm still outraged at the reboot. Ugh.

ION, do any of you have experience with subscribing to online manga? Yen Plus is publishing the Soulless manga in monthly installments, and I'm trying to decide if I want to spend $3 a month to read it, or if I'm patient enough to wait until March 2012 for the book..

I have to say, coming from the perspective of someone who read the Superman comics back in the 60s, when Lois only yearned for Superman and despised Clark Kent, for me the dissonance is a Lois/Clark married pair. I'm good with the reboot because that's what feels right to me. I was pretty outraged the last time I picked up a Superman comic and found out they were married. Sacrilege! That being said, I still won't read Superman because I quit reading the title back around 1969 after they killed him off the first time.

Sail, Lois and Clark were like... Zoe and Wash. They kicked ASS, damn it.

I have to look down on any writer who separates a couple--especially retroactive magic wandlikely, because partnered characters aren't as interesting. Supes doesn't actually need sexual tension to be interesting, and you can have resolved sexual tension that's still a charge. If you can't write a good marries Superman or Spider-Man, you are not doing their characters justice.

If you divorce them or kill their spouses, I'd have to evaluate that on a case by case basis. But these people are pretty open about saying they think a stable relationship sucks the life out. Is it that they're single, and they don't get that partnering isn't a death sentence? Or worse yet, they're not single, and they feel they're at the end of the road, and if they can't rescue themselves, they might as well rescue their characters?

But these people are pretty open about saying they think a stable relationship sucks the life out.

I think these guys are regretting the loss of their mancaves in their mama's houses. Seriously, I don't object to Lois and Clark getting together; it's that I never saw it happen so to me it just seems weird. I'm all for more Zoe and Wash type relationships in comics/TV/movies/fiction of any kind.

Long Alan Moore interview in Wired: [link]

Comic-Con panel (obviously spoilery) talks about, among other Bat-Things, what Babs' age will be in Batgirl, what Jason Todd's damn hair color will be and the future of Stephanie Brown: [link]

I mostly say Feh, except for Jason's hair color.

Are we whitefonting stuff about the DC reboot, once it's been reported? I can't remember.

More Superman stuff (spoilery): [link] I am utterly boggled. No Jonathan and Martha? No flight? (Well, at first, I guess.) And that short cape is appalling. If they're going to go with the Superboy t-shirt-and-jeans look, then ditch the fucking cape. It looks like it came from a kid's Halloween costume.

God. I am That Fanboygirl.

Wonderella reveals the truth about Batman: [link]