As some of you know, my Henchgirl, bitemetechie, has started up a roleplaying blog for the Scarecrow, where she and her CATverse co-mastermind captaintwinings occasionally hold theme day/week events wherein they take submissions from followers.

These events include "Pick-Up Line Day" (readers do their best to try and hit on the Gotham rogues gallery), "Stroking the Rogue ( Read more... )

Today, io9.com ran a feature about artist Dean Fraser's mock-concept-art for a fictional Star Wars: Empire of the Bat mash-up.


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Sleepy. Exhausted. No have the brain. Here, have this excellent essay by FuckYeahBatmanVillains which awesomely and eloquently touches upon many issues that I'm planning on discussing in full at some point or another. Reposted with permission.


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Something awesome was brought to my attention this past weekend, and boy, I needed it.

( First, some venting about online Batman-fandom stuff that's been pissing me off for the past week. Feel free to either read or just skip to the comic! )

If you have time to kill, you'd do very well to waste a few hours scouring over these following links!

( Behind the cut: news about Harvey's in the animated BATMAN: YEAR ONE, Henchgirl reviews Jim Balent's CATWOMAN, some sites for great comic scans, Simpsonized Batman characters, and a new piece of art I'm especially proud to own )

“The joy of The Dark Knight movie is, ‘This is what a Joker story should be like.’ No one wants to see the ultimate Two-Face movie.”
-Neil Gaiman, from a July 2009 interview with Wired.com.... Sighhhh ( Read more... )

Over at Comics Alliance, one of the main writers began his positive review for the new digital comic version of Batgirl: Year One with the following words:

"I'm skeptical of origin stories, particularly ones for characters that are decades old. I mean, honestly -- who cares? Are the specifics that important? Superman is going to be the same ( Read more... )

Hey. How's it goin'?

Since LJ is still under DDoS assault and I am thus unable to respond to a number of comments from you fine folks, I figure that this might be a good time to bring up the fact that I have started an About_Faces account for Twitter. I don't update much, and most of what I do update with is just to alert whenever I post something ( Read more... )

I've found a handful of little things which don't really warrant posts on their own, but by their powers combined, you get a thinly-connected grab-bag assortment of Two-Face goodies and baddies alike!

Chris Sims at Comics Alliance gave a feature story wrote a feature story about the Capcom-style fan-made Batman fighting game that's still in ( Read more... )

The geek news site Topless Robot has been annoying me of late due to their recurring habit of belittleing old-school Star Trek fans, namely those who dare not to question the worth of the recent J.J. Abrams film.* But I keep going back to TR, because they put out great lists like, say The 13 Best Lawyers in Comics. I'd obviously have ranked Harvey ( Read more... )