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With 29 days to go, the kickstarter is already past the minimum funds goal. People really really want a graphic novel based on a handful of Jonathan Coulton songs, as it turns out!

After all, it has monkeys, zombies, and robots!

Title: Roger Aubrey and the Gingerbread Menace
Timing: Present
Summary: Expanding on the gingerbread men thing previously mentioned in Yule: Preparation Is Key.
A/N: Please note that "expanding on" is not the same thing as "explaining". ;3


( Roger Aubrey's Christmas tree decorations had a clear theme: gingerbread men. )

This fic was written Christmas Eve, 2012. :D

BRUCE BANNER HAS A "FRANKIE SAYS RELAX" COFFEE MUG.

( And Steve probably hasn't slept in 5 days )

Sequence of Events

1. Batgirl, Stephanie Brown, is given the task of infiltrating an English boarding school (Batman: The Return)
2. Batgirl, Stephanie Brown, arrives in England ready for that mission (Batgirl #22)
3. Stephanie Brown, who was never ever Batgirl, performs that mission (Batman INC: Leviathan Strikes!)
4. Batgirl, Stephanie Brown, returns to Gotham following that mission (Batgirl #23)

credit: teatimebrutality

But supposedly -- and everyone over at DC keeps saying this -- Leviathan Strikes! is meant to take place before the reboot, for reading purposes. (It was meant to be published then.) So, really, what the hell?

eta: PARADOX RESOLVED! Despite the fact that previews of the pencils clearly showed Steph as Spoiler, the final art had her as Batgirl. And for soem reason Madonna, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Lily Perry are the villains. I wish I was kidding, but I'm not.

Quoting from this interview with Dan Didio:

In addition to Batwoman, Apollo and Midnighter, you’re also introducing a female bisexual African American superhero in Voodoo. Was it a conscious decision to introduce characters from across the LGBT spectrum?

Yes. What we really wanted to do was show the diversity of our audience across the line of our books. Right now we have such a wide fan base and we wanted to create characters and stories that really reflected [that] fan base.

...

Gay League has posed the question of whether Voodoo was previously bisexual, but I'm asking whether they mean Priss at all. Because screw who she screws, since when is she African-American? That and the use of the word "introducing" makes me hope they're introducing a new character as part of Voodoo's support cast.

Most people have seen K. Beaton's ooh Mister Darcy ooh strip, and/or one or more of the many many parody/homages of it.

This is my favourite so far.


K. Beaton, Eat Your Heart Out by ~Lady-Liesl on deviantART

(Not least becuse I have always loved Lady Liberty and Blind Justice as a couple. The only person Lady Liberty goes with better than Blind Justice is, in my opinion, me. I'd totally wear a blindfold for her! And I'm a Libra, so the scales are no problem! Oh, Lady Liberty. *dreamy sigh*)

Star Trek: Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor
Star Trek: Mission's End
Showcase Presents The Elongated Man volume 1
The Sensational She-Hulk by John Byrne volume 1
The Champions volume 1
The Champions volume 2

I am the proud owner of a handful of TOS comics -- the '78 issues! Furlough to Fury! Barbara McCoy, the other, less famous non-canonical daughter of Dr. McCoy! WOO!

eta: Now with Barbara spelled correctly! Although Marmera is not a bad name, per se...

Sooo... I picked up Essential Marvel Captain America volume 3 (vol. 2 is all sold out) aaaand...

Cap and Falcon are really in a relationship, huh?

I mean, when Doom's Bucky-bot is revealed as "Bucky Barnes back from the dead!" on TV (and just... don't even get me started on Baron von Strucker trolling the gyms of San Francisco looking for the perfect young man with which to lure in Captain America, seriously), Falcon's watching at home and gets all emo because he'd really been hoping he and Cap could be partners... they'd seemed to really hit it off 'n all... And then when Falcon gets a girlfriend, Cap's all like "if he's with her then he can't be with me! *choke sob*" and I just stare at the page.

Also, I would like to know what Cap's tone of voice was when he told Fury he wanted him to meet someone, since it caused Fury to throw an arm around Cap's shoulders and say, "You know my type, pal -- cute 'n' cuddly, with big blue eyes." (*cough* You mean like, oh, Steve Rogers, Nick?) To which Cap replied by describing Falcon's "bulging biceps".

Regardless, it's interesting to see Falcon in these early stories, and to see the two of them dealing with having an interracial partnership. Falcon gets a lot of flak from his community for working with a white dude -- especially one as iconic as Captain America. He really feels a need to prove himself, and his frustration with Cap's seeming innocence about modern race relations is both clear and understandable. But they try to work through it. (And really, compared to the America Steve Rogers grew up in, I wonder how much progress things seemed to have had, to his eyes?)


P.S. Cap's boycrush on Clark Gable is adorable.

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THEY KISSED THEY KISSED THEY KISSED THEY KISSED!!!! *dances around and around* FINALLY! Right on the page! Not by accident or possessed or anything woooo!!!

Saw an issue of The New Mutants #1 (the new one, obviously) at the FLCS today. Picked it up and after four pages put it down again with a firm decision that Marvel can go fuck itself. Sam and Roberto were bullying the students.

SAM AND ROBERTO. BULLYING.

I THINK FUCKING NOT.

Roberto can be an ass sometimes, but he has major issues with bullying, and Sam -- is Sam. Come on now, people! Cheese and crust, what an appalling mass of OOC writing. *angry facepalm*

Precipitated by this unpleasantness, therefore, walking home saw Tai and myself talking about a happier version of the DCU we started poking at a handful of years ago, and really developed after Graduation Day ticked us off. Anyway, we decided that Spoiler in that 'verse is alive and is the guardian of Blüdhaven.

I feel good about that decision.

These issues come after Inferno, when the New Mutants and the X-Terminators met, and tell of how the two teams combined -- although Skids and Rusty are separated by the end of these, really, so it's more like the Muties assimilated Boom-Boom and Rictor. One of the things I liked, reading these, is that I know exactly where it fits in with the rest of the X-books, timeline-wise. Marvel really sucks at that these days.

( #76 was a really fun adventure story: Namor and the kiddies fight a giant tentacled thing! )
Issues #77 and 78 are the beginning of another Asgard arc. After the kiddies take Illyana home to her family, Dani collapses. Ship analyzes her illness and concludes it to be magical in nature, so sends them to see Doctor Strange. Alas, the good Sorcerer is pretending to be dead at this time -- and has an eyepatch! -- but he watches them invisibly. It seems Dani is possessed by an evil entity, whose toxic aura is affecting the others. He observes that Boom-Boom and Rictor (or rather, "the little blonde and the dark-haired boy") are the most sensitive to it, which is kind of a no-brainer, what with the way they get into a shouting match on his doorstep and have to be physically restrained from attacking each other.

This is the bit that really caught my attention, actually. Why those two? Other than Rahne, they're the youngest -- and Rahne, being psychically connected to Dani, should have been more easily affected, right? Dani's almost a stranger to them, so what's the deal? Are they just naturally mystically sensitive? I'd really like someone to run with that for a fic, maybe an AU. There's a canonical other reality where Rahne is a queen and Boom-Boom is her loyal maidservant. There's no Rictor ever seen there -- maybe he's off being a wizard's apprentice! *plots*