Giles ,'Chosen'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
I've read at least something of all of them, I think, but I can't say much more than "that one thing I read was good," "know more my reputation than by work," or "die Willingham DIE" about most.
I've read an awful lot of Winick, though-- his run on GL was vastly superior to Marz, his GA is wonderful, and while I like his Outsiders at first, I'm kind of bewildered now.
while I like his Outsiders at first, I'm kind of bewildered now.
I think that (1) Nightwing -- the character -- is so fucked-up right now that nobody knows what to do with him, and Outsiders is having the same problem, and (2) Adam Walsh? ADAM WALSH?!? I want to know who's responsible for that idea.
Adam Walsh? ADAM WALSH?!?
The funniest response to this I've seen (and I wish I could remember whose LJ I saw this on) was something along the lines of: "rassa frassin' Adam Walsh, gets to meet the Outsiders... OH WAIT. They're NOT REAL."
Geoff Johns generally writes really strong character-driven stories and has great respect for the Golden Age comic book characters. He managed to largely redeem a lot of the Zero Hour crapfest for me. Though I think returning to that story again and again to pick at the scabs is actually perhaps the greatest weakness of his writing. Has a tendency to lose track of subplots he's left hanging, though.
I know Morrison is a favorite of a lot of the in crowd, but I think his writing long ago degenerated into pointless self-referential wanking and surrealism for its own sake. (The latter works much better on a canvas or celluloid than in the written word, IMHO)
Question -- which superheroes/villains among the more prominent Marvel/DC/independents are fully qualified medical doctors? My short list is Dr. Don Blake (Thor's alter-ego), Dr. Jean Grey (Marvel movie-verse) and um....
are fully qualified medical doctors? My short list is Dr. Don Blake (Thor's alter-ego), Dr. Jean Grey (Marvel movie-verse) and um....
Dr. Stephen Strange
Is Dr. Mid-Nite an actual doctor? And Ray Palmer's probably got a Ph.D.
Dr. Strange was a top-flight surgeon before his origin story car accident that gave him a hand tremor.
Doc Samson is a psychiatrist, but I seem to recall there may be an M.D. in his qualifications as well. Along with the training to build giant gamma-ray transfer machines. (Though in comics you can apparently get that by takinga correspondence course...)
Both versions of Doctor Midnight have been medical doctors.
Huh. It turns out that Dr. Strange is a doctor.
Dude! I just said that. Yeah, he was an asshole surgeon.