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.
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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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.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 18, 2004 10:29:28 am PDT #4014 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Michele T. - Jun 18, 2004 10:36:01 am PDT #4015 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
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.
Michele T. - Jun 19, 2004 3:51:13 pm PDT #4016 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
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.
amych - Jun 19, 2004 3:56:26 pm PDT #4017 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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!
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2004 3:56:55 pm PDT #4018 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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
amych - Jun 19, 2004 4:03:05 pm PDT #4019 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Isn't that more of a meta-train-song, P-C?
sumi - Jun 19, 2004 4:06:08 pm PDT #4020 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Is Driver 8 about death or the losing your woman?
Mr. Broom - Jun 19, 2004 4:33:08 pm PDT #4021 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
A little X-Men rant about semi-current events. I saw a recent Uncanny X-Men TPB, and who the hell decided Paige and Warren should be a full-on couple now? I knew there was some love-triangulation with Chamber, but I never found out how that got resolved (though I see the end result, and I'm not effing happy with it). Anyone want to give me the skinny? I know they decided to write Chamber out of the team, and I'm curious as to how that played out. Curious and angry.
Also, I'm on the fourth Sandman TPB, and they're just getting better and better. Anyone else here as obsessed as I'm getting?
DavidS - Jun 19, 2004 4:48:34 pm PDT #4022 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is Driver 8 about death or the losing your woman?
I think there's some death.
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2004 6:46:17 pm PDT #4023 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Isn't that more of a meta-train-song, P-C?
Well...technically. The verses are about the train, though. The actual train, as opposed to losing women or death.