I got into a stupid mini-spat in scans_daily about her being a Mary Sue. How can she be? She's so freaking broken.
I can see where people might try to make an argument. Everyone in the Batfamily has some qualities that might smack of a Mary Sue, what with the brilliance and the pretty and the billionaire playboy super kung fu jujitsu mojo.
But the point they're missing is that each member of the Batfamily is so very deeply, irrevocably flawed. And not in the 'isn't that so charming?' kind of way, but in the scary freak-ass dysfunctional stalker vigilante kind of way.
How can you be a Mary Sue next to the world's two greatest detectives? Or Babs, who seems to be the hacker extraordinaire and can still kick your ass from a wheelchair?
Have people not
met
superheroes?
Yeah, it's kind of like griping about Superman being a male Mary Sue. Dude, that's the whole point. Siegel and Schuster invented Mary Sues. Or is that pants?
They also kind of miss that if Cass were a Mary Sue, people would react to her the way they tended to react to Donna, instead of they way they actually do.
Ahahahaha! DCU/The O.C. crossover fic! Kid Flash/Seth.
Steph, I read that, and it's amaaaazing. There needs to be more DCU crossover fic in the world.
Oh no...
He was heard to be doing so well afterwards! I attended several talks he has given, and was always entertained by his stories of the early days of comics, and challenged by his hopes of what comics/sequential art could achieve.
Damn. That's a legend and an era gone.
This week's projected haul:
- Firestorm #9
- Ultimate X-Men #54
I may flip through JLE in the store. I skimmed the first six -- didn't like them enough to buy, but kinda interesting. The lead chick with the fake arms is very compelling, and of course, there's my girl. I'll definitely flip through XMen FF -- my urge to completeness doesn't compel me to buy any more. Especially after seeing Joss write a much better bristly encounter between the two teams. And I'll be sure to skim Endsong before plunking down the cash.
Does anyone read The Authority? I read the Yuletide challenge fic that shrift wrote, and it was her fandom. I googled a bit, and found it has a supertextual same sex couple. Is it any good?
Where have all the comics gone? My habit seems almost manageable.
R.I.P. Will Eisner.
Awww, fuck. Not only one of the giants of the art form, but a good man too. A major innovator as an artist, designer, writer and businessman. Also, he drew the hottest women ever.
