fancyfade

[fancyfade]

R/dccirclejerk post has the best reaction to the new red hood news

[fancyfade]

Ok I'm normal its been pointed out that there's no reason at all to assume the writing will be bad bc we've got an actual female writer instead legit terrible person Scott lobdell. Had a gut negative reaction due to previous terrible writers but I'm cured now jason can live.

I also did have a convo with some 1 on locg who seems to enjoy the same jason type stuff i do (not hiding his negative character traits or that he's like "I'm not gonna stop all of the terrible stuff I'm doing" in task force z) and it seems like this writer did something similar earlier (from this person's pov, I didn't read the comic but it was beast world) so I'm actually optimistic that she might continue doing things that are actually somewhat interesting in jasons character instead of sadboy always justified 3000.

Also some of helenas funner writing lately had been when dc let's actual female writers at her (thinking of tamakis tec)

Let's have jason crowbarred again

[fancyfade]

But like, seriously, Helena’s been stupidly tied to batguy of the week throughout her career. Robin iii Cry of the huntress, nightwing/huntress. It’s happened before, the sky isn’t falling. There have been bad comics before and there will be bad comics again.

[fancyfade]

Let's have jason crowbarred again

[fancyfade]

Every time there's a "who's the most underutilized under appreciated character" question comes up people always wanna suggest guys who have had multiple solo ongoing titles. Fake underutilized character fans now suggest a criminally underutilized female character with no solo ongoing because comic fans and writers are sexist.

[fancyfade]

Fans just think Damian needs to quit being a superhero to be a doctor because other Robin characters have established the precedent of being unemployed or inconsistently employed

[fancyfade]

The writing around Arn and Helena in YAS has the tiniest dick energy imaginable

Like. They just cannot stop themselves from textually being like 'don't worry the female character with super strength isn't as strong as the male character with super strength'. what the hell dann and roy thomas.

and ofc if you keep in mind these were characters allegedly intended to replace golden age ww and golden age superman... it does NOT look good.

incredibly weak energy. shit stuff.

[fancyfade]

H2sh being delayed for 2 months is karma for hiring jeph loebs racist ass for what is sure to be a terrible comic nostalgia baiting a comic that was just ok but considered a classic for some reason

[fancyfade]

My hammer broke before the indestructible paint did

Landlords favorite hobbies are being useless and painting windows shut with some type of impossibly strong paint made for space shuttles in such a way that the window can never be opened again

[fancyfade]

Landlords favorite hobbies are being useless and painting windows shut with some type of impossibly strong paint made for space shuttles in such a way that the window can never be opened again

[fancyfade]

The Way My Mother Didn't Raise Me - chapter 37

Not sure why Tumblr links aren't working when I try a link post but here you go (link)

More Damian and Talia antics.

[fancyfade]

more ratings as i keep reading

wildfire has joined timber wolf at the bottom of the pile. his thing seems very unvarying from "generic hotheaded dude" and he does not wear it well.

chameleon boy or whatever reep daggle's superhero name is has been interesting though i hope he resolves his daddy issues soon. blok is also a surprise stand out guy, and dream girl has been pretty cool though some of the guys on the team who clearly don't respect her (element lad, ultra boy, even her own stupid boyfriend who seems resentful she is paying more attention to being leader than to him) have lost favor in my eyes.

phantom girl, shrinking violet, and duplicate girl are just kind of there, same is bouncing boy. nothing super interesting (that i have read) has been done with them.

reading some gerry conway's legion of superheroes random thoughts:

favorite legionaires so far are saturn girl, dawnstar, and braniac 5. they're cool. saturn girl has changed a lot since they invented having personalities (the characters' personalities are rather same-y in the silver age)

least favorite is timber wolf. "i'm such a lone wolf I belong alone i'm staying because of my girlfriend". ok timber wolf no one cares.

[fancyfade]

also while i'm on the post coie defense squad, having just read a bunch of bronze age legion of super heroes comics, i don't think anything is lost by having superman not start out as superboy and be in the legion.

like i like the legionnaires best when superboy isn't there b/c ... well there's already a lot of clark kent stuff, i want to see what goes on with the other characters who don't get as much focus.

maybe because of the mode of storytelling as the time (silver age stories) i also just... haven't really been invested in any superboy stories i've read. there's been some generically cute moments but nothing super important.

I do think there were a lot of mistakes in byrne's krypton /superman lore (namely being insistent that krypton is a cold emotionless place superman should leave behind and that superman was literally birthed onto earth via alien gestation matrix???) but I don't think that him not being superboy is one.

i realize mark waid's silver age nostalgia boner is on the writing right now, so that's getting recanonized, but it still is boring as hell to me.

[fancyfade]

Miss the potential of post COIE wonderfam and adjacent characters. Donna being from New Chronos (Space satellite the Titans left to after being booted off earth) and having Titan seed powers and 11 other siblings who were aliens was neat. Helena Kosmatos being connected to the Greek furies, not really used much in Wonder Woman run except for Phil Jimenez, was still cool. Artemis in general (whether she has powers as later on, or gets them via gauntlet of atlas and winged sandals as at the beginning) was cool, as well as her being positioned as a leader in the bana mighdall (this part did not change) and a mentor for cassie was neat. Cassie initially using the gauntlet of atlas and winged sandals to do wonder girl stuff and getting powers because she told Zeus she really deserved them was awesome.

Everyone being an amazon or related to the gods is boring as hell.

[fancyfade]

I told my brother Chameleon boy's real name and he said "that's some glup shitto name" and I fear he is right

secrets of the legion of super heroese #1

[fancyfade]

reading some gerry conway's legion of superheroes random thoughts:

favorite legionaires so far are saturn girl, dawnstar, and braniac 5. they're cool. saturn girl has changed a lot since they invented having personalities (the characters' personalities are rather same-y in the silver age)

least favorite is timber wolf. "i'm such a lone wolf I belong alone i'm staying because of my girlfriend". ok timber wolf no one cares.