'The Killer In Me'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Victor, I think you're making an unnecessary assumption in presuming that the dead person had to be someone's SO. Why not a hero him or herself?
It's also been noted a couple of times that the Dibnys had one of the only lasting stable marriages in the DCU, which makes the relationship as much as the character a loss .
Also, I want it to be Wednesday.
Michelle asked Why not a hero him or herself?
Because It wouldn't have been the same story. Green Arrow called it--heroes dying comes with the game. They expect it. Breaking into their homes and killing their spouses/parents/children et al. is different. The whole point of the story, vis a vis BM, is less about the heroes and more about what they do to protect those around them.
I enjoyed the story even though I had not the slightest idea who the Dibneys were. And does anyone have a map or something that ids everyone in the funeral scene for those of us who are mostly clueless?
does anyone have a map
Not that I've seen. If anyone has a good-quality scan to work from (because I just can't seem to remember to bring my comics in to work with me, gorramnit), I'm sure we could whip up our own....
Having read the whitefont -- but not read IC #1 -- I don't know who the Dibneys are. Will that affect my ability to enjoy/understand it?
Will that affect my ability to enjoy/understand it?
Teppy: No. Neither did I, and it still blew me away. It gives you a basic rundown; you'll get the idea.
Teppy -- you will know when you read it. (I didn't know who they were either.)
Tep, a long-time JLA member (aka Elongated Man. No, really. Like Plastic Man, but they decided to have two of them.) and his wife. That's probably all you need to get started, since it's not so much about who the specific victim was, as about the impact (which you can see as soon as you read it) on the JLA extended family .
Are there any female characters of a heroic bent who even have civilian partners? In the DCU, I can't think of a single one.
PMM, Troia tried. Didn't work out too well.
But if guys don't like (stereotype alert) chicks who make more than they do, just imagine.