'Not Fade Away'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
He was the regular writer on Batman:Gotham Knights before A.J. Lieberman took over, so that may be what you've been exposed to. He had a pretty good Huntress arc in his run there.
Heh. I just realized it's because he's the co-writer on my best beloved TPB, Batgirl: Year One that I know him.
Hey, did they re-do how Babs got into the Bat game? I've seen her origin story from back in the 60s, and it was kinda weak.
Yeah, they did, and it's really very good. Go! Buy!
What she said!
It's wonderful. I adore every single one of its pretty little pages.
I re-read it once a month, at least.
Love love love.
So is that what Year One is for her? Bacause Batman Year One isn't really Bats' origin story (more of an early days), although it certainly touches on it.
Batman: Year One has him deciding to put on the suit and cape; the earlier stuff, the training and the death of his parents, is referred to. So I think of it as a origin of the hero story still. And Batgirl: Year One is about how Babs becomes a hero as well, though there's not a lot of her backstory before she first puts on the suit.
If there is a problem with it, and it's arguable that it isn't a problem at all, is that it's a little too aware of what Babs's future is -- I could've used maybe one or two fewer references to oracles, you know?
But it's a delightful, well-written, fun book, and total catnip for the Dick/Babs shipper to boot.
What have we here? Dick/Tim fic?
And I have to disagree with the contention that there is only one train song in recorded history that isn't about death, losing your woman, or both -- Steve Earle and Del McCoury's "Texas Eagle" qualifies as well.
Steve Earle and Del McCoury's "Texas Eagle" qualifies as well.
Dagnabbit, I knew I had to be forgetting one somewhere. Thanks for the rec!
And I have to disagree with the contention that there is only one train song in recorded history that isn't about death, losing your woman, or both -- Steve Earle and Del McCoury's "Texas Eagle" qualifies as well.
Also "The Train Song" by Eddie from Ohio.
if this song were country
it'd be about prisons, pickups, and pain
this ain't no country
it's another folk song, just another folk song
everybody got a folk song about a train
Isn't that more of a meta-train-song, P-C?