Heh. I thought the premise looked very Buffyesque:
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JW: I’m sounding like a broken record, but it’s kind of like Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Simpsons. That’s the simplest way to put it. At the end of the day, it’s about a little girl who fights monsters. There’s a rather massive backstory to the whole thing, which really provides a spine to build from. I’ve only tapped into it a little in the show, but for me, knowing its there is important. The show needs a spine, and needs a place to work from.
So – Juniper is an 11 year old normal girl. She goes to school, plays guitar in a band with her brothers, she likes comic books – she’s a regular kid.
She also is responsible for maintaining the balance between the world of magic, and the world of humanity. All that, and she has to take piano lessons as well.
NRAMA: That’s all?
JW: What, she needs more? She is the Te Xuan Ze. It’s been the job for one member of her family to fulfill this role for generations. Her grandmother, Ah-Mah did this for decades, and her great grandfather did it, and it goes back and back. They all live in Orchid Bay City, which does not look unlike San Francisco, and is the center of the magical world, coincidentally enough.
June wears a bracelet that acts like a pager and goes off whenever there’s an imbalance between magic and humanity. That can be anything from some magic creature is in trouble to some magical creature is causing trouble, and June goes off and takes care of it. The downside of it is that it’s a secret…so it’s a superhero show in disguise.
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Also, Stewart Copeland as composer? Coup.
Hmmm, Yahoo says that it's repeating today but TVGuide.com says that it's not repeating until Friday.
Also, the third printing of the OMAC Project is supposed to be out today.
New comics are tomorrow, not today, because of Memorial Day.
Ah. Still -- OMAC Project #1 3rd printing this week.
(Juniper Lee is an animated show on 'Toon -- not a comic.)
Also, I have about a bajillion comics to pick up from last week. . . and it's gorgeous out -- I may have to go today anyway.
I finally read the first three Runaways trades and the latest issues. What a great comic! I love it!
I read
The OMAC Project #2
and
The Outsiders
over lunch. Is that a new artist for
The Outsiders?
Because I am having difficulty telling some of the characters apart. I looked at
Year One Batman/Scarecrow
and felt "meh" about it so I didn't pick it up.
I read The OMAC Project #2 and The Outsiders over lunch. Is that a new artist for The Outsiders? Because I am having difficulty telling some of the characters apart. I looked at Year One Batman/Scarecrow and felt "meh" about it so I didn't pick it up.
The art on
Outsiders
has been incosistent ever since Tom Raney left. I can't recall if this is the first issue for this team or not, but it certainly is lacking.
I didn't even glance at the Scarecrow special because of the price - $5.99 for a movie tie-in? I don't think so.
I liked the art on this issue of Outsiders. Reminded me of early Sienkiewicz on New Mutants.
Meh. I have one title on my pull list today. Villains United #2.
SA came up last night to pick up a month's worth of comics, so we went to the store (obviously), and I found out that Cute Comic Guy has a girlfriend. Meh. Though he certainly is flirty with me.
