#Maggins

[marinaqua]

✨ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MY LOVELY HOBBIT FRIEND ✨ 💕💕💕

Lyrics under the cut:

Happy Birthday Maggie’s Birthday One step closer to the grave

Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Today you’re one year older

Go eat some cake Delicious cake I won’t be there to share it

Because I’m here You’re over there Why are you so far away?

Stupid distance It isn’t fair Why do we need an airplane?

Enjoy your day I swear one day We’ll have a birthday party

Until that time Just hold on tight And wait until I get there But not this year ‘Cause it is clear I am too poor to fly there

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAGGIE’S BIRTHDAY THIRTY-ONE ROUNDS COMPLETED

AROUND THE SUN DON’T LIKE THE SUN IT TURNED ME INTO SHRIMPY

IT HURT A LOT HAVE NOT FORGOT MY SKIN WAS RED AND PEELY

BUT I DIGRESS THIS SONG’S A MESS GO HAVE YOURSELF A PIECE OF LOVELY CAKE

[magnumdays]

Magnum PI 4.20 - ‘Close To Home’ review

WE BE CANON!

I can still not believe even as I KNEW as soon as we had the whole flashback to Higgy talking with the doc after her run! I just knew. 

Then I was like Oh no Lia! Maybe we won’t get it and they’ll leave it all angsty. But the very next scene is like Magnum telling the guys ‘nothing happened’ and then I knew 100%. (I’d also been spoiled by amazing kissing gifs from my two seconds of opening tumblr!)

Anyways, I like-loved this episode, (duh) and over all I’m not sure how much I have to say today. Only OMG if this was the series finale I’d be able to die happy and since it’s most likely not WE ARE GETTING A WHOLE SEASON of Miggy. They better not mess it up!!!

But I mean...can’t stop rewatching that last scene! Still, I’ll try to remember and talk about the rest of the episode too!

Thos one felt like a mix of so much because we have A) Magnum and Higgins acting like high schoolers in love or like some Shakespearian play. It was like a classic ‘darkest moment’ in a romance novel where the characters are finally about to come together and then something stops them. But it’s all actually a misunderstanding. So I’d say the Miggy plot this week is a romantic comedy. 

B) Gordon’s kidnapped wife (+him at first) and then Beth being shot and them breaking a guy out of prison and a big shoot-out and finding out the bad guy was responsible for Gordie’s sister’s death. It was pretty heavy. And he no longer with the HPD (are we going to get Magnum, Higgins and Katsumoto investigations next year? that be... something). So that was a pretty dang serious thriller-detective-suspense-crime plot-line.

C) the baby coming early and Suzy having complications. I felt weirdly responsible for this (since I did kill her in a fan fic and occasionally I seem to mind link a bit with the writing team... but she survived so it’s not my fault) and Rick being shook and then everyone having a moment with the cute-fake baby. Like that was a fake baby right? I mean yeah? Or did I just insult someones baby? And this last one, it’s like IDK family+medical drama? Or perhaps angst family? 

No matter. 

Despite how different they all were weaved together pretty good, and just like the contrast of the first scene with kidnapped Gordy+Beth, 

then Higgy on her jog and in the kitchen when she’s going to tell him and then the utter devastation of Lia being there...

Look at her face, she so sad and we so sad too!

(I feel like Higgy was sad a lot this episode, like even there at the end when she’s told him she’s mostly just sad, which is depressing. Because it means she’s pretty sure he dosen’t have feelings for her in return. While I think Magnum actually had a clue that she did have feelings for him just not that she was so in tune with them, Higgy was just telling him because she wanted to be honest and not because she was expecting a HEA. At least not as much as I feel he was.)

Then scene switch to Magnum and the guys waiting for Gordy and Magnum being all defensive about/ explaining to the guys that Lia did JUST SLEPT THERE - NO FUNNY BUSINESS - it was just... chef’s kiss on the tone shifts and somehow managing to make me love ever moment of it. I mean I was legit so upset for my babies and the possibility of them messing it all up but I was still smiling because I was amused by the wacky-drama-ness of it all!

Least favourite bit or thing I’m not 100% sure how I feel about Higgy getting emotional when they were all there with the baby, at the same time I did like how that whole thing played out. 

(And I was right about the balcony scene not being Higgy having said ‘can I talk to you about something’ - promos be liars!) 

Did love that he notices right away and follows. Magnum knows what’s up!

And I of course loved the last scene. I’m both torn between liking that we’re in a new set, nothing familiar just like the situation, it’s sun set (symbolising one thing ending and another starting) but I would maybe have liked their first kiss to have been at Robin’s Nest. Maybe. Still I did like this pick for setting too. Very dramatic!

I think they despite the situation/conversation nailed the whole Miggy dynamics with Juliet being all “I bet this is doing wonders for your ego” and Magnum being all “I asked to spend the day with you yesterday because I was going to say the same thing”. I do hope we get call backs to them debating who had feels first and who made the first move - since he did ask her out for a hike but she actually told him!

Then having both confessed to having feels they’re like “maybe we shouldn’t do this” and kind of agree, and then still kiss = so them! And I really look forward to seeing how they handle this going forward and how they keep them Magnum and Higgins but still give us Magnum&Higgins situations and development of their personalities. 

Now, just because...

And they were so freaking soft with each other this whole episode and I hope they keep that up for a bit, but then as they settle in to the relationship next season we get some good bickering and stuff too. Anyone know anything about season 5? When will we know? 

Overall I think I probably need to watch this episode again without just focusing/waiting for the Miggy moments because I’m not sure I gave it proper focus. Also me just having moved and the new job this week is making my brain feel a bit unfocused. So I def. think I’ll appreciate this episode more on the re-watches!

[maggins]

so bc of that post i went back to see if there was anything else of interest in the scene in WaD where raine runs through the castle and

“i gave up my palisman for you”

my longest Yikes ever 🙃🙃🙃

[supermanshield]

That's my best friend on earth!

Superman Annual #9

[luthwhore]

elliot s maggin (one of the main pre-crisis superman writers, and if you’re not familiar with him i beg you to track down some of his work) has a quora account where he answers questions about his opinions on comics and superheroes and god, i love hearing him talk about lex luthor.

a few highlights:

the idea that “no one is truly irredeemable, even the worst of villains” is frankly incredibly radical even by current day standards — grown adults couldn’t handle that shit in steven universe, a literal show for children — but it should be a core tenet of the superman mythos and that is a hill i will die on.

[balu8]

Detective Comics #450' (1975) - "The Cape and Cowl Deathtrap"

by Elliot S. Maggin; Walt Simonson and Ben Oda

DC

[ufonaut]

You know I've always hated you, Superman, but that guy's a real pain!

Superman (1939) Annual #9, with a cover date of 1983. Written by Elliot S! Maggin with art by legendary cartoonist Alex Toth.

[broccoli-bitching]

TFW you're magnesium-based lifeform not because you're a polydrug addict but because you down antacids like there's no tmrw

[cantsayidont]

January to April 2004. Fans of MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN would likely enjoy this poignant 2004 miniseries by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen, about a young man named Clark Kent in a world very much like ours, where Superman is a familiar — and fictional — pop culture icon. Clark grows up the butt of many jokes, but when he's in high school, he discovers that he really does have powers like Superman's, something that has no precedent in his world outside of comic books.

If this premise sounds familiar, it's because it's a lot like the origin of the Earth-Prime Superboy, before he became a way for Geoff Johns to mock comics fans (and for DC to play out its institutional hostility toward Siegel and Shuster). In the pre-Crisis era, Earth-Prime, one of editor Julius Schwartz's little jokes, was supposed to be our world, where comics artists, writers, and editors transcribed the adventures of the real heroes of the other Earths. In the afterword to the trade paperback compilation of SECRET IDENTITY, Busiek admits that the similarities were wholly intentional, and that while he didn't mention it in his proposal (and DC didn't advertise it as such), this was essentially his extrapolation of that 1985 concept by Elliot S! Maggin, Curt Swan, and Al Williamson.

After moving to New York City in his '20s, this Clark becomes a reporter — though not for the Daily Planet — and meets a young woman named Lois Chaudhari. To my knowledge, this was the first time a counterpart of Lois Lane was presented as an Asian woman (although of course she's not precisely Lois Lane).

Throughout most of the story, Clark uses his powers only in secret, but he does make himself a Superman costume. Eventually, he feels compelled to come clean with Lois:

Like Busiek's ASTRO CITY, SECRET IDENTITY is a very introspective story, less interested in action (of which there's relatively little) than in emotion and small observations of life with superhuman abilities. If you're expecting bigger dramatic stakes, you may find the series underwhelming — there are no supervillains or alien invasions, just Clark's reflections on his life and family, from childhood to old age — and the fact that the story never reveals why Clark has powers may frustrate. However, its autumnal wistfulness is appealing if you're in the right frame of mind for it. Immonen's art is gorgeous, and I can't think of a better artist for this story, which straddles the line between a real-world environment and the "heroic realism" of the modern superhero genre.

Fourteen years later, Busiek tried to do a similar story with Batman, BATMAN: CREATURE OF THE NIGHT, with John Paul Leon, which doesn't work nearly as well, wallowing in some uncomfortable attitudes about mental illness and an inappropriate though deliberately ambiguous supernatural element. Leon's art is interesting, but the story leaves a sour taste, and it does not succeed (at all) in doing for Batman what SECRET IDENTITY does for Superman, which is disappointing.

[chernobog13]

From Superman (vol1.) #297 (March, 1976). Written by Car Bates and Elliot S! Maggin; art by Curt Swan and Bob Oskner.

Wherein it is STRONGLY implied that Lois spent the night at Clark's apartment. How that got past the Comic Code Authority, or the powers that be at DC editorial, I'll never know.

According to many staffers at DC at the time, this was more than an implication - Clark and Lois did have sex. "Beef bourguignon" became more than just Clark's favorite meal; whenever he or Lois would mention it to each other it was their version of "Netflix and chill."

Unfortunately, at the time, the Clark and Lois relationship never really progressed. By 1983, when Lois had been replaced as the love interest in the film Superman lll, DC editorial decided to follow suit and have Lana Lang take her place as Clark's love interest in the comics.

[dcbinges]

The Joker #9 (1976) by Ernie Chan, Irv Novick & Elliot Maggin

[marvelousmrm]

Incredible Hulk #230 (Maggin/Mooney, Dec 1978). Hulk gets a manicure.

[cryingalexanders]

Smallville Lex/some modern versions = anti villain (he wants to help the world in his own way, but it's a bad way and has a bad impact)

Maggin Lex/some pre-crisis versions = anti hero (doesn't particularly care or set out to do good but sometimes his interests align with the heroes. sometimes does legitimately heroic/selfless things)

Bates Lex/also Smallville = tragic villain (on a downward spiral. can't escape his obsession and it will consume him one day)

[maggins]

[supermanshield]

"Can I help it if my tastes are a little... exotic?"

World's Finest #213

[luthwhore]

“nona the ninth,” by tamsyn muir // superman: the last days of lex luthor, by mark waid // hozier’s twitter // superman: birthright, by mark waid // “sorry,” by halsey // superman (2023) #1, by joshua williamson // tumblr user dykeyphantom // smallville s10e22 // “poem,” by langston hughes