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?
Jayne, you'll scare the women.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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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.
§ ita § - Dec 30, 2004 7:34:15 am PST #7121 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 30, 2004 7:52:31 am PST #7122 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
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?
P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2004 7:59:42 am PST #7123 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
Steph L. - Jan 02, 2005 9:33:17 am PST #7124 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Ahahahaha! DCU/The O.C. crossover fic! Kid Flash/Seth.
Holli - Jan 02, 2005 2:02:13 pm PST #7125 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Steph, I read that, and it's amaaaazing. There needs to be more DCU crossover fic in the world.
Tom Scola - Jan 04, 2005 5:32:48 am PST #7126 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
R.I.P. Will Eisner.
CaBil - Jan 04, 2005 5:40:28 am PST #7127 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
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.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2005 7:04:34 am PST #7128 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
DavidS - Jan 04, 2005 7:33:45 am PST #7129 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2005 8:52:49 am PST #7130 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
man, Eisner's passing was SO not the way I wanted this year to start off. The man was a comic book god.
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?
Not anymore. The first twelve issues were golden, but the stories and art began a swift downward spiral after Ellis and Hitch left.