There's a lot I don't know about the continuity of the Books of Magic, and so I'm probably not getting a lot what I'm reading, but I do really like the artwork and the questions it raises.

Life During Wartime is outside of the continuity of other Tim Hunter bboks, unless they pull something nifty out of thir hat. So, really, you don't need to know anything.

SA -- if I were to send a large envelope to you in Wales (say, the size of a comic book), would it get to you?

Yes it would! I just figured people would rather send it cheaper. But my parents and BF's have been sending me parcels, so it's all good.

Life During Wartime is outside of the continuity of other Tim Hunter bboks, unless they pull something nifty out of thir hat. So, really, you don't need to know anything.

No, I know. I just think they're making reference to certain Major Plot Points that I'm missing, stuff other people who'd read BoM would have picked up.

No, I know. I just think they're making reference to certain Major Plot Points that I'm missing, stuff other people who'd read BoM would have picked up.

Not really. For the most part, the only characters that are shared are Tim (wildly different) Molly (doesn't even look the same!) Constantine (Who, really, aside from the being the big Mr. in Charge, is pretty much the same as he always is) and Zatanna (Who should not be blonde.)

I see no reference to earlier plotlines.

Well, that makes me feel rather better. When I read it, it certainly seems like I'm going in blind.

What do you think of it thus far?

What do you think of it thus far?

It's OK. Think it's dragging out a bit too much. Want some action.

I have the same complaint about Ex Machina.

Hey! Things blew up! That was action!

I just read an LJ entry that said that DC was using the deaths of Digger and Drake Sr. as smokescreens for their pervasive misogyny.

At least I think that's what they said.

Those folk who thought IC was refrigerator stuffing -- does that opinion still hold?

I think the targeting of Drake mitigated that somewhat, though the choice of leading off with Sue's death, then her earlier victimization, then Jean Loring's attempted murder before having any male victims put them in an uncomfortable position.

I'm really bad at seeing the sort of thing people were complaining about -- I do think that Mr. Drake got more agency in his demise (for all the good it did him), but am not sure if where I fall on the idea that starting with a defenseless and beloved woman was a) cheap b) exploitative or c) efficiently effective.

And really, if b) do they do it because they think it's the skeeriest thing ever, or because they know it will make most of their readers reel with the most horror? That "escalating" to the slightly armed and XY sorts will make it clear that anyone's at risk?