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.01 Is anyone else reading the new Birds of Prey? If you are, want to talk about it? I don't want to spoil anyone, but I'm itching to discuss the things I like and the things I'm potentially worried about.
.02 I just reread all my Blue Beetle trades/issues. WHY DID YOU CANCEL MY FAVORITE SERIES, DC? WHY? There was no character I didn't like or at least get a moderate kick out of. I even enjoyed the bad guys. And Jaime--a nice, normal (for a certain value of normal), really sweet kid of Mexican-American descent with an amazing family and friends who know he's Blue Beetle and support him and the fact that he happens to have alien tech living under his skin--is made of so much win and awesome that I've actually shrieked out loud at various points in my readings, and no doubt will again. As for Khaji Da? There are no words. NO WORDS. I mean, yeah, I have an AI kink the size of LA, but god, he's... no words.
Why, DC? Why do you always manage to ruin/kill off/neglect your best characters? Also, Teen Titans' use of him? SO NOT COOL. (And while I'm at it, what Teen Titans has done and is doing with Lorena Marquez? Excuse me while I go KILL something. Aquagirl does not exist to be your vamp, assholes. Note to self: stop reading this shit. Auxiliary note: find Aquagirl icon.)
.03 I love Batman Beyond. This is not news. Also not news: I'm planning long, plotty future BB fic based on my personal head canon, which includes Nightwing!Max and Robin!Matt. I've always intended to include Miguel Diaz (the kid from Unmasked who saw Terry's face?), because he has future Timmy-type Bat-stalker written all over him. But. I had this... Blue Beetle thought. About him. I am unsure whether or not I should unthink this thought. It would be unbelievably fun to write Khaji Da into this AU thusly. Hmn.
I have also arbitrarily decided there must be Mad Stan and Splicers and perhaps Zeta as well. Grife, my brain does weird things at two-hundred.
.04 I finally made myself finish reading All Star Batman and Robin. As trades go, this was a more costly than usual endeavor. Expenses are as follows: TPB (bought at local used bookstore): $6. Spackle and paint to fix the dents where I threw the TPB against the wall twenty or so times: $2.21. Antacids to control my reflux: $1. The three bread plates and two juice glasses I broke out in the backyard afterward because it was either that or hit people: $15. Imagining watching Babs and Canary kicking Frank Miller in the head? Priceless.
I'm writing a review. Anyone want to read it?
.02 I just reread all my Blue Beetle trades/issues. WHY DID YOU CANCEL MY FAVORITE SERIES, DC? WHY? There was no character I didn't like or at least get a moderate kick out of. I even enjoyed the bad guys. And Jaime--a nice, normal (for a certain value of normal), really sweet kid of Mexican-American descent with an amazing family and friends who know he's Blue Beetle and support him and the fact that he happens to have alien tech living under his skin--is made of so much win and awesome that I've actually shrieked out loud at various points in my readings, and no doubt will again. As for Khaji Da? There are no words. NO WORDS. I mean, yeah, I have an AI kink the size of LA, but god, he's... no words.
Why, DC? Why do you always manage to ruin/kill off/neglect your best characters? Also, Teen Titans' use of him? SO NOT COOL. (And while I'm at it, what Teen Titans has done and is doing with Lorena Marquez? Excuse me while I go KILL something. Aquagirl does not exist to be your vamp, assholes. Note to self: stop reading this shit. Auxiliary note: find Aquagirl icon.)
.03 I love Batman Beyond. This is not news. Also not news: I'm planning long, plotty future BB fic based on my personal head canon, which includes Nightwing!Max and Robin!Matt. I've always intended to include Miguel Diaz (the kid from Unmasked who saw Terry's face?), because he has future Timmy-type Bat-stalker written all over him. But. I had this... Blue Beetle thought. About him. I am unsure whether or not I should unthink this thought. It would be unbelievably fun to write Khaji Da into this AU thusly. Hmn.
I have also arbitrarily decided there must be Mad Stan and Splicers and perhaps Zeta as well. Grife, my brain does weird things at two-hundred.
.04 I finally made myself finish reading All Star Batman and Robin. As trades go, this was a more costly than usual endeavor. Expenses are as follows: TPB (bought at local used bookstore): $6. Spackle and paint to fix the dents where I threw the TPB against the wall twenty or so times: $2.21. Antacids to control my reflux: $1. The three bread plates and two juice glasses I broke out in the backyard afterward because it was either that or hit people: $15. Imagining watching Babs and Canary kicking Frank Miller in the head? Priceless.
I'm writing a review. Anyone want to read it?