It is like Homicide.
Only on paper, and with the occasional guy in tights.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
P.M. Marc - May 12, 2004 5:47:26 pm PDT #2731 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
P.M. Marc - May 12, 2004 5:52:31 pm PDT #2732 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
You have transitioned already, haven't you? It's like they set up this schedule just to highlight your shift in fandom loyalties. (aka obsessions)
Yeah. I have. It's weird.
sumi - May 12, 2004 6:14:26 pm PDT #2733 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Me! I said it.
And I have nothing left to contribute because I am not caught up in Nightwing.
Ummm, except in the Outsiders the blue girl is called Indigo and she is an alien, the stretchy guy is called Metamorpho and he has another name (Rex?) - but he's not really Rex he's something that grew from some of Rex' tissue. He's like a clone of Rex. Arsenal, i.e., Roy -- is the blond and he used to be the Green Archer's assistant. The green girl is Jade and she is the Green Lantern's daughter. The tattooed woman is Grace and she used to tend bar and get in fights. (I don't really know her back story.) The last woman is Thunder and she can make herself really really dense and her father was a super hero named Black Lightning.
Does that help?
Holli - May 12, 2004 6:15:03 pm PDT #2734 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Plei, what happened to Nightwing? I'm concerned all out of proportion to my actual investment in these fictional characters.
No, wait... my investment in these ficitonal characters has grown all out of proportion to REALITY. Dammit.
§ ita § - May 12, 2004 6:21:25 pm PDT #2735 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Metamorpho and Black Lightning were in the original Outsiders, which was run by Batman.
Nightwing and Arsenal were teammates in the Teen Titans up until recently -- it broke up when the artist formerly known as Wonder Girl was killed.
DavidS - May 12, 2004 6:23:23 pm PDT #2736 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Metamorpho and Black Lightning were in the original Outsiders, which was run by Batman.
Art by Alan Davis. His first American series after Marvelman/Miracleman, if I recall.
victor infante - May 12, 2004 6:24:37 pm PDT #2737 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
blue girl is called Indigo and she is an alien
Actually, Indigo's not an alien. She's an android from the future.
Yeah, I know. That's lots better.
The tattooed woman is Grace and she used to tend bar and get in fights. (I don't really know her back story.)
Grace was a bouncer at a club for metahumans, and that's pretty much the only backstory that exists on her. Except that she knows a Hell of a lot of super-heroes, and has slept with, at the very least, Arsenel, Green Arrow (Oliver Queen version) and Plastic Man.
sumi - May 12, 2004 6:27:03 pm PDT #2738 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, Indigo was some sort of assassin android from the future, right? Who was somehow reprogrammed or something to not be just an assassin? (At the same lab where they grew Metamorpho, I think.)
shrift - May 12, 2004 6:27:54 pm PDT #2739 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Ahem. Plei? I went to the comic store after work, rushed home, read Nightwing #93, and have been going batshit ever since. EEeeeeeeee!
Having said that, I'm gonna be wanting some damn Dick comfort sex fic to come of this arc. At least, in the fan fic. Because I don't think the more-than-kinda-icky Tarantula sex on the roof counts.
P.M. Marc - May 12, 2004 7:28:14 pm PDT #2740 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Shrift, no shit. Though if he continues to have icky, twisted, uncomfortable, fully-clothed, kiss-free, yet somehow oddly hot broken sex, I'll be cool with that.
Huh. This, umm... hit some of the buttons Faith torturing Wes hit and some of the buttons that Buffy and Spike hit in Smashed and some new buttons I didn't know I had and I'm kind of ashamed of that because this was SO FUCKING WRONG, yet so inevitable.