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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.
amych - Jul 28, 2004 1:23:53 pm PDT #5105 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2004 1:27:14 pm PDT #5106 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a semantics question -- when did DC adopt "metahuman" to distinguish between superpowered superheroes/villains and run-o-the-mill costumed wackos? I mean, superhero pretty much doesn't imply any intrinsic physiological differences, right?
sumi - Jul 28, 2004 1:29:47 pm PDT #5107 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
I've been wondering the same thing.
(I mean they use "meta-human" in the tv show "Birds of Prey" -- but who took that seriously?)
- ita -- how do I "quick-edit" something in the middle of a sentence? That's what I don't get.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2004 1:34:51 pm PDT #5108 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi, remember, a single line break doesn't show up as a line break onscreen, only in the posting box.
typed as:
sumi, remember, a single line break
i doesn't
show up as a line break onscreen, only in the posting box.
sumi - Jul 28, 2004 1:38:01 pm PDT #5109 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Aha!
Oh, and so we have
that fright beast from Bats, killer robots, Batgirl not speaking to Babs, a possible resurrected Jason and Penguin with his power consolidated
all to add to the pre-Wargames build-up.
Forgot the
no real Robin or Spoiler
sitch.
Polter-Cow - Jul 28, 2004 1:45:24 pm PDT #5110 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Powers: Ah, now I remember why I missed Deena.
Astounishing: Continues to be good. Joss sure isn't pulling any punches, is he?
Line that made me take a moment to laugh out loud: "You teach Ethics?"
sumi - Jul 28, 2004 1:54:57 pm PDT #5111 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
There is some Batman/Catwoman story (2 issues I think?) -- is that possibly leading up to War Games?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 28, 2004 3:15:10 pm PDT #5112 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I believe the metahuman thing stems from the Invasion! summer crossover, wherein about 95% of the human superheroes were revealed to get their powers from the meta-gene that a certain proportion of people carry.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2004 3:21:53 pm PDT #5113 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
about 95% of the human superheroes were revealed to get their powers from the meta-gene that a certain proportion of people carry
Oh. So do you need an accident to trigger this meta-gene sometimes? Barry Allen, meta? Once activated, the powers are hereditary? Superman, not meta because alien, right? And then there are people like John Constantine or Tim Hunter -- meta? Aquaman -- not human, but is he meta for an Atlantean? Black Lightning?
I'm so confused.
I skimmed through the Another Nail or whatever they're calling it for this week. Firestorm's white -- I'm good with that. Halo's black. Anyone know why?
DavidS - Jul 28, 2004 3:25:13 pm PDT #5114 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
about 95% of the human superheroes were revealed to get their powers from the meta-gene that a certain proportion of people carry
Why would they do something stupid like that? Isn't that the exact same idiotic Jedi thing that Lucas did?