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usuallyhats) wrote2013-08-29 11:59 am
usuallyhats) wrote2013-08-29 11:59 am
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Twitter needs to knock it off with the connected tweets thing, it is making me want to BITE THINGS.
This week's comics:
Young Avengers #9: I feel like I've been waiting FOREVER for this comic, but it was worth it! It wasn't quite as quotable as previous issue, but the dialogue was still excellent, and the whole comic just SPARKLES. I am really happy about Prodigy being bi! Well done chaps. I got a bit worried when he started talking about absorbing other people's experiences, but then he explicitly said that that wasn't why he was bi, just how he'd realised, and it was all ok. (This exact same thing happened with another bisexual character (not in comics) a few months ago! What an oddly specific thing to run into more than once.) It's also great to have a bisexual male character, I feel like we don't have very many of them. There's been a fair few bisexual women on TV in the last few years, which is great, but I do think it's worth pointing out that "cisgendered bisexual woman" is probably the type of queer character that's the least threatening to the assumed cisgendered heterosexual male viewer, and... we really need to stop aiming things at that dude. He's got lots of stuff already. Obviously I'm not calling for fewer bisexual women in fiction, quite the opposite! Just... let's have lots more of everyone else. This has been a tangent.
Back to Young Avengers! I am actually really interested in where the plot is going, which is unusual for me. I want to know what's going on with America, and also Leah: I've only read the beginning of Gillen's Journey Into Mystery run, but I've picked up some of the plot thanks to a long fic I read that put Stephanie Brown into it to see what would happen. ♥ Also, I find myself a lot more invested in Billy and Teddy's relationship now that there's some drama in it. Be ok, guys! (Though basically I am mostly going to be fine with whatever happens, I think, as long as they don't end up evil, dead or straight.)
Journey Into Mystery #655: nooooo don't be over. :(((( I think I need to reread this arc to get my head around the plot, but that aside I love it so much. Sif is brilliant, and the writing did a great job of making her funny without making fun of her. ♥ I love that the final issue gives us epic feelings and then breaks out the hilarity, it was perfect. And Valerio Schiti's art is FAB, Sif looks so tough and awesome and her faces are brilliant. If I wish really hard, it will magically be uncancelled, right?
Captain Marvel #15: ...eh. I really like this book, but this issue left me somewhat underwhelmed. The fact that it was a tie-in to an event I'm not following didn't help, but I also don't really like the Carol loses her memory thing. I trust that Kelly Sue DeConnick is going somewhere cool with it, but... it's not really what I want to read, you know? (And hasn't Carol already done the struggles to connect emotionally with loved ones due to missing memories thing?) I much prefer this fic's take on what might have happened post Enemy Within.
Other comics-wise, I watched the animated film of DC's New Frontier series the other day, and really liked it.
Off to my parents' for the weekend after work tomorrow! :D (If I have offered to lend any of you any books that live there, this would be a good time to remind me... ;D)
This week's comics:
Young Avengers #9: I feel like I've been waiting FOREVER for this comic, but it was worth it! It wasn't quite as quotable as previous issue, but the dialogue was still excellent, and the whole comic just SPARKLES. I am really happy about Prodigy being bi! Well done chaps. I got a bit worried when he started talking about absorbing other people's experiences, but then he explicitly said that that wasn't why he was bi, just how he'd realised, and it was all ok. (This exact same thing happened with another bisexual character (not in comics) a few months ago! What an oddly specific thing to run into more than once.) It's also great to have a bisexual male character, I feel like we don't have very many of them. There's been a fair few bisexual women on TV in the last few years, which is great, but I do think it's worth pointing out that "cisgendered bisexual woman" is probably the type of queer character that's the least threatening to the assumed cisgendered heterosexual male viewer, and... we really need to stop aiming things at that dude. He's got lots of stuff already. Obviously I'm not calling for fewer bisexual women in fiction, quite the opposite! Just... let's have lots more of everyone else. This has been a tangent.
Back to Young Avengers! I am actually really interested in where the plot is going, which is unusual for me. I want to know what's going on with America, and also Leah: I've only read the beginning of Gillen's Journey Into Mystery run, but I've picked up some of the plot thanks to a long fic I read that put Stephanie Brown into it to see what would happen. ♥ Also, I find myself a lot more invested in Billy and Teddy's relationship now that there's some drama in it. Be ok, guys! (Though basically I am mostly going to be fine with whatever happens, I think, as long as they don't end up evil, dead or straight.)
Journey Into Mystery #655: nooooo don't be over. :(((( I think I need to reread this arc to get my head around the plot, but that aside I love it so much. Sif is brilliant, and the writing did a great job of making her funny without making fun of her. ♥ I love that the final issue gives us epic feelings and then breaks out the hilarity, it was perfect. And Valerio Schiti's art is FAB, Sif looks so tough and awesome and her faces are brilliant. If I wish really hard, it will magically be uncancelled, right?
Captain Marvel #15: ...eh. I really like this book, but this issue left me somewhat underwhelmed. The fact that it was a tie-in to an event I'm not following didn't help, but I also don't really like the Carol loses her memory thing. I trust that Kelly Sue DeConnick is going somewhere cool with it, but... it's not really what I want to read, you know? (And hasn't Carol already done the struggles to connect emotionally with loved ones due to missing memories thing?) I much prefer this fic's take on what might have happened post Enemy Within.
Other comics-wise, I watched the animated film of DC's New Frontier series the other day, and really liked it.
- It needed more Wonder Woman, but to be honest that's more of a life philosophy than a specific critique.
- Casting David Boreanaz as Hal Jordan was a great idea, because I cannot STAND Hal in the comic, but I have enough spare affection for Boreanaz lying around to counterbalance that hatred somewhat. It helped that the film skated over the bit that made me hate Hal in the comic, ie the thing where he's a fighter pilot who refuses to shoot down any enemies (which I can respect) but is totally ok with luring them into the firing range of other pilots, which seems so OBVIOUSLY hypocritical and terrible to me that I actually wonder if I may have misinterpreted it, because the comic didn't seem to see any problem with it.
- Other than there's the door, spaceman, my favourite scene from the comic is the one where Dick meets Superman, so I was glad that at least some of it was still there, though sad that a lot of it wasn't. I love the idea that Bruce takes on a kid sidekick because he "didn't get into this job to scare children", because it's a reminder that Batman isn't just about JUSTICE I AM THE NIGHT etc, but is also about Bruce not wanting anyone, especially any CHILD, to go through what he went through. I think that element often gets lost, and it's a shame. And I was pleased that the "Dick displays emotions through backflips" element was still there. However, the film did cut Bruce's line about how he and Dick are "two lost souls who found each other", which disappointed me. I love that line because I love the fact that Bruce IS someone who is capable of making deep instinctive emotional connections with people: just because he's terrible at feelings doesn't mean he doesn't have them! (A quick and easy way to get me to backbutton out of batfic or meta: state or imply that Bruce doesn't love his batkids. HE LOVES THEM A LOT YOU GUYS. Ahem.) And I think that you lose something if you reduce the relationship between Batman and Robin to just a functional one - which is what the New 52 has basically done. Especially for Bruce and Dick: I feel like "I instinctively sympathise with and understand this child's pain and want to help" is much more rich and interesting than "I needed a tiny sidekick so I acquired one" or "this child is quite good at sidekicking, maybe I will pay more attention to it". ...I just have a lot of feelings about the batfamily ok.
- The opening sequence was entirely gorgeous. And the closing montage, with all the new heroes, was just GLORIOUS, especially Black Canary's appearance. ♥
Off to my parents' for the weekend after work tomorrow! :D (If I have offered to lend any of you any books that live there, this would be a good time to remind me... ;D)
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I am bored by Captain Marvel losing her memory, too. I didn't even pick up the issue yesterday because I couldn't figure out if I would have to read Infinity or not and I am tired of the Avengers. I JUST WANT CAROL OKAY? :P
"Dick displays emotions through backflips"
Aww how adorable.
I haven't seen the movie, but I have both volumes of The New Frontier out of the library. I keep picking them up and flipping to the parts where Wonder Woman or Batman are doing stuff, and then getting bored and putting them down. There seems to be disproportionately large swaths of the comic that are not about superheroes at all (which I think is sort of the point, but which I didn't realize initially) and a lot of Hal Jordan, whom I know nothing about.
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There seems to be disproportionately large swaths of the comic that are not about superheroes at all
I liked the comic, but I wasn't really a fan of those bits either! (I liked the art, the atmosphere and some of the character stuff, but could take or leave the actual plot.) The film basically cuts them out completely. The Hal stuff felt like it had been cut a lot too, but I may be misremembering how much of it there was in the comic, because of how much I disliked him... :)
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