Thursday, December 16, 2010
Well, That Was Fast
Nick Spencer is no longer the new writer on Supergirl. James Peaty is taking over and he wrote issue 33, so I have to go back and see if I liked it. If not, I might end up dropping SG. Which would be a shame after Gates and Igle made the book one of the best in the DCU. I know creative teams come and go, but this is ridiculous. And SG deserves better. She deserves respect and consistency. Here's hoping Peaty and Bernard Chang, who will still be on art, can achieve that. But I'm not counting on it. feh
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Yet Another Reason Why I'm Glad I Stopped Reading Titans
Because this is just too annoying. Sometimes, I think the writers/editors handling Roy Harper today felt deprived that they didn't get to write him as an addict. Denny O'Neill got to do that. So they got him hooked on drugs again, and made him more of a jerk than he ever was. And now he'll have a confrontation with Dick. Sheesh.
Someone let me know when Roy's clean again, his friendship with Dick is restored, and it's safe to read about him again. Thanks. And if Lian is ever brought back from the dead, I want to hear about it pronto. ;)
Someone let me know when Roy's clean again, his friendship with Dick is restored, and it's safe to read about him again. Thanks. And if Lian is ever brought back from the dead, I want to hear about it pronto. ;)
Friday, December 10, 2010
Comics as Soap Operas
I love this comparison of comic books and soap operas from Kalinara. I used to watch soaps. A lot.
At first, it was Dark Shadows and The Edge of Night. Edge focused on crime mostly, back in the '60s, and DS was, well, vampires before they became ubiquitous in entertainment media. Over the next two decades, I added a lot of soaps, including General Hospital, which Kalinara mentions, and Days of Our Lives, which managed to take one stupid act, when a character pretty much raped his future sister-in-law (or maybe the marriage had already happened -- I started watching a year or so later) at her wedding to his brother. She got preggers, her new hubby was sterile but he didn't know it, and... well, they managed to drag out the repercussions of that for over 20 years. Not quite as convoluted as Ollie Queen fathering Connor and all the drama that came out of that, although Connor was introduced years later and retconned into Ollie's history. But still... a bit soap operish, I'd say.
And a good excuse for a post here, because I've been busy watching Doctor Who and Torchwood DVDs, having gotten into both rather late and am now catching up, instead of reading the comics that are piling up in the den.
At first, it was Dark Shadows and The Edge of Night. Edge focused on crime mostly, back in the '60s, and DS was, well, vampires before they became ubiquitous in entertainment media. Over the next two decades, I added a lot of soaps, including General Hospital, which Kalinara mentions, and Days of Our Lives, which managed to take one stupid act, when a character pretty much raped his future sister-in-law (or maybe the marriage had already happened -- I started watching a year or so later) at her wedding to his brother. She got preggers, her new hubby was sterile but he didn't know it, and... well, they managed to drag out the repercussions of that for over 20 years. Not quite as convoluted as Ollie Queen fathering Connor and all the drama that came out of that, although Connor was introduced years later and retconned into Ollie's history. But still... a bit soap operish, I'd say.
And a good excuse for a post here, because I've been busy watching Doctor Who and Torchwood DVDs, having gotten into both rather late and am now catching up, instead of reading the comics that are piling up in the den.
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