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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.


§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 11:47:47 am PDT #3785 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

DC has no sense of tone.


§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 4:46:44 pm PDT #3786 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Dick, you're a dick.


Steph L. - Sep 14, 2011 5:03:24 pm PDT #3787 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I just had a hilariously pedantic discussion with Tim on the fact that there have been 2 female Robins.

Me: "I *know* I have told you this before! We've been dating for over 5 years!"
Him: "Uh, it may have slipped my mind."
Me: "Well, you know that only Steph Brown is canonical, right?"**
Him: [blank look]
Me: "Oh, for god's sake!"

This came out of the fact that there was a gigantic kink event in Columbus last weekend (way too big for me to handle the crowds), and apparently there was a superhero-themed party dealie. One of our friends told us that another friend, L. (who is a woman) dressed as Robin.

Of course my first reaction was "Oooh! Carrie Kelly or Steph Brown?!?"

They just looked at me like I was speaking in tongues. Finally I said, "It MATTERS, okay?!?"

And when I explained to them that there have been 2 female Robins, they were all like, "Oh, L. just thought she was being edgy." I decided to not even try to explain the whole canonical dress-Tim-Drake-in-drag dealie.

Edgy, my ass.

**(Actually, is Dark Knight Returns considered canon, but just...future-canon? Because I think of DKR as canon. Maybe I mean only Steph was Robin in current continuity.)


amych - Sep 14, 2011 5:05:43 pm PDT #3788 of 5059
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Dude. IT TOTES MATTERS.


Steph L. - Sep 14, 2011 5:09:53 pm PDT #3789 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Friend L. has the build and haircut to pull off Carrie Kelly. (Actually, it was our friends who claimed that L. was trying to be "edgy" -- I don't know for sure whether or not L. reads comics. I would kind of expect it of her, to tell the truth. If I find out she really was being Carrie Kelly, I may have to leave Tim for her.)

Also, when I showed my Tim various issues with Steph Brown as Robin, he looked me up and down and said, "If you don't cut your hair, you could TOTALLY cosplay girl-Robin."

Perv.


Tom Scola - Sep 14, 2011 5:13:39 pm PDT #3790 of 5059
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The All-Robin issue of Tiny Titans had Carrie.


Steph L. - Sep 14, 2011 5:15:30 pm PDT #3791 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Seriously. All I need is a headband and I would be rocking this look SO HARD: [link]

Well, that and a jumpline.


Steph L. - Sep 14, 2011 5:17:17 pm PDT #3792 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

The All-Robin issue of Tiny Titans had Carrie.

I call that canon.

I have nothing but mad love for Tiny Titans. Anything that could make Darkseid into the school lunchlady is PURE GOLD in my book.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 14, 2011 7:07:14 pm PDT #3793 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

Argh. Amanda Waller in the DC reboot underwent a bit of a makeover: [link].

Fuck DC. Just fuck them.

I feel that whoever made this decision should be locked in a room with Pam Grier and CCH Pounder and forced to explain to them exactly why it was so vital to make Amanda Waller slender as part of DC's new, improved approach to the character.


Steph L. - Sep 17, 2011 3:56:18 pm PDT #3794 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

We went to the Cincinnati Comic Expo today -- second year in a row they've pulled it off. They only have a few panels, a crap-ton of vendors, a costume contest, and a gaming room that's open from 10 am to 10 pm (even though the actual Comic Expo programming ended at 5:30).

I'd like to see more panels, but the ones they have aren't heavily attended. I think they need bigger names to get higher attendance -- or branch out from comics to larger pop culture/genre TV and movies.

One panel was a Captain America retrospective, with a husband/wife team who ink and color some of the current Cap titles, as well as 87-year-old Allen Bellman, who was drawing Cap back in the early 1940s. I have to say, Bellman was so great to listen to. He got all teary when he said that in his wildest dreams, when he was 19 years old and drawing Cap in the bullpen, he would never have thought in 2011 he'd be on the red carpet* at the premiere of the movie.

*(It was apparently actually a red, white, and blue carpet.)

There was also a panel with Michael Uslan, who has a new autobiography out called The Boy Who Loved Batman. (It is NOT slashy fanfic, despite the title, and yes, I already made a kajillion jokes. t edit NOT to him; to Tim.) He was really interesting, talking about buying the film rights to Batman back in the early 80s (or maybe the 70s) and then getting laughed out of every movie studio because he wanted to make a dark Batman movie rather than campy.

He also moderated the Captain America panel, and it was obvious how much of a fanboy he was and is, because he just raved about Art Bellman's work, and talked really knowledgably about the husband/wife team's art on current Cap titles.

Then we went down to the gaming room with some friends and I learned how to play Settlers of Catan, which I didn't really understand until about 5 minutes before the end of the game, which I won in a crazy twist of luck and 3 Knight cards in a row.

Good stuff. And now I have a new book to read.

We didn't go to the costume contest, but we saw about 10 stormtroopers and 5 Boba Fetts. One of the Boba Fetts was pushing a stroller with a kid in a Jedi robe in it -- but around the stroller was built a Millennium Falcon, complete with a stuffed animal Chewbacca on it.