Oh, not just what Simone said, but the whole Crisis/One Year Later shebang. It's just ripe for being a disastrous cock-up.

Boy, I really need to read my comics.

Oh, not just what Simone said, but the whole Crisis/One Year Later shebang. It's just ripe for being a disastrous cock-up.

It's definitely ripe for alienating their fanbase. I am intrigued by the One Year Later aspect though; that's an interesting narrative gambit that'll allow them to backfill that year as they go.

It's definitely ripe for alienating their fanbase. I am intrigued by the One Year Later aspect though; that's an interesting narrative gambit that'll allow them to backfill that year as they go.

I don't think it'll be mediocre, that's for sure. Don't get me wrong -- I think it *could* kick serious ass, and I hope it does.

Things that are going on in the JSA Classified book, coupled with the big question mark over the Spectre's role in it all, lead me to suspect that the overall title isn't so much cheesy and hackneyed as an indication of what's going to be done—or rather, undone—in the story.

From the "you may have something interesting to say, but I can't be bothered to read any further" department:

The contemporary zeal for graphic novels—fiction, let us remember, equipped with drawings and speech bubbles—has, to this spectator, encouraged the emperor to parade before an adoring public in a threadbare Speedo, if that. For filmmakers, they're smokin' assets, serving as ready-made storyboards as well as trailing a pre-sold and, dare I say, undemanding readership behind them.

From a MirrorMask review in the Voice: [link]

Yeah, I saw that Jon. That pretty much invalidated the rest of the review for me. I know the Voice arts critics tend to be snotty/snobby in their own particular way, but that was beyond the call of duty (and I usually like Atkinson).

Finally watched Teen Titans and JLU from this weekend last night.

Teen Titans was okay. I'm not sure what the message was supposed to be, though. It was cool seeing the Doom Patrol but I thought it was weird with TT's "secret identities will confuse the kids" policy that the DP referred to each other by both first names and hero names interchangably. Though no one callled Beast Boy anything but his hero name. And how many talking evil gorillas does the DC universe have, anyway?

I thought the first JLU episode was alright. Definitely a lot more violent than I expected with the obvious, if bloodless, killing throughout the big war scene. But a lot of plot points bugged, like why Supergirl's powers weren't functioning right and why that supposedly made her less vulnerable to kryptonite. I thought the whole point of Kryptonite was it was lethal to Kryptonians physiologically. It doesn't matter whether they're under a yellow sun or not. Also, don't care much for her new/comicbook-verse outfit.

I was happy to determine I had recognized Star Girl's voice as belonging to Giselle Lauren (sp?) since it sounded very Buffy-esque.

I liked the second episode a lot more, though the main storyline about the corpse of the invinicible viking was just weird. Also, why would a Viking Prince be named "John" ?

Lots of good lines in this one, and I was happy to see King Farraday coming across as closer to his comic incarnation than he did in the premier. The flying Secret Service agents were pretty silly, though and I just had to shake my head at the Wonder Woman spin.

The animated Supergirl isn't technically from Krypton, she's from the neighboring planet of Argo. She and Superman aren't cousins, they're "cousins".

They had to do it that way in Superman: TAS because of a strong edict from DC at the time that Kal-El should be the only survivor from Krypton. An edict that DC suddenly doesn't care about any more.

Oh, the comic deathmatch is down to the semi-finals. I'm really amused that, during the first round, Shack & I correctly predicted who the final four would be. There should be a fandom book in Vegas.