Ugh, I just read Ghost World, and it made me almost physically ill. Enid and Becky are so fucking awful for no good reason at all, and I didn't see any point to any of it. The last two chapters could have saved the book, but I'd had it long before that point.

Aw, man, and here I am unable to re-read Ghost World after the first go-through because it was just so utterly haunting that it left me swamped by incontinent nostalgia for weeks afterward -- not the actual events, but Enid and Becky's relationship, their conversations, the way they saw themselves and their peers and the grown-ups around them and tried or failed to navigate all the gaps in their world, their lives, their futures? Reading it, I felt like Clowes must have been in the booth behind us at the Copper Penny at Geary & Masonic, secretly taping everything.

God knows there was a lot of weird fucked up not-as-all-knowing-as-we-thought-we-were,-not-by-half stuff going on, but we weren't fucking awful. We were just... I don't know. But, seriously, I haven't cracked that book in almost 20 years and just looking at the cover can still give me regretful, sorrowful, yearning shivers for I can't even articulate what.

Young Justice:

I agree with your white font, ita.

Wow, White Martians are freaky looking. (Never read a comic that featured them.)

I'm glad it turns out Megan's cheesy TV catch phrase is actually a cheesy TV catch phrase. It's always kind of bugged me and felt out of place.

Also, nice to have it confirmed Kid Flash knows Robin (and Batman's) identities even if no one else on the team does.

Have people read I Kill Giants ? Because they should.

Barbara Thorson could be a Buffista sprog. She even runs her own D&D games! Also, she kills giants.

Has anyone read The Promise? It's the graphic novel set after ATLA and before Korra, and apparently starts right after the end of the series.

Yep. It's pretty good, though extremely short (Part 1 of 3). Gene Yang captures the voices really well (although Aang and Katara are annoyingly cutesy and call each other "sweetie" and shit), and he sets up some nice political conflicts. Plus, more Ozai fucking with Zuko!

Community meets The Avengers. Possibly avoiding every matchup I'd have made...but cool.

In the course of image-googling "Disco Nightwing" to show Tim the awesomeness of the Disco Nightwing costume, this image (Nightwing, but NOT Disco Nightwing) came up: [link]

Tim was silent for a moment, and then said "That is an incredibly well-developed ass on that man."

Me: "Mancrush?"

Him: "...I think so."

Oh, Nightwing. Is there nothing you can't do?

I love how, in the sexploitation comic art discussion, there's an "well, and Nightwing" clause, because if he had tits, they'd be up in our faces all the time, and he's just spreading it for all the viewers.

And that's why I love Nightwing.

Young Justice:

So the young girl at the beginning of the episode whose father Green Arrow and Artemis saved was supposed to be Cissie King-Jones which explains why she's not on the team in this universe. Though the exploits seemed like they inspired her.

Hey, Tardis.

Apparently some folks were surprised by the "big reveal" of Artemis' parentage though I thought they'd made it pretty obvious, previously. Well, we hadn't known why her mother went to jail before.