Continuity patches

[dragontail]

LJ had her thinking cap on today.

We've had some new arrivals this week. Owlman and the Blue Bowman stood ready to add their brand of villainy to our cast. For those who don't know, the dastardly duo are residents of a "reverse world" where all our heroes are villains, and our bad guys fight on the side of good. Until now, Owlman's been portrayed

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[newsy891]

*giggles madly at Blue Bowman going nightnight* =D

I love the underlying theme of these stories, and knowing LJ's awesomeness it simply must be there on purpose. So many of the characters in these epics - Hanzo and Henry from the Storm of Time crew, Cap in Season's Beatings, Batman... well, everywhere - have a past that comes with really quite heavy emotional baggage. One by one, LJ is walking these characters through their own discovery that they can draw on their past for positive ends, transform the emotional baggage into fuel for good. And that individual knowledge, when shared, makes the team all that much stronger.

[dragontail]

Credit for that goes partly to her own awesomeness, and partly to the awesomeness of modern children's serial programming. TV writers seem to have hit a new stride wherein they're not afraid to "go emo" with their plots, but still believe in the tried-and-true "moral at the end" that lifts the spirits. It's a great combination of the squeaky-clean excesses of 80s cartoons and the grim-n-gritty nonsense of their 90s successors.

Related note: if you can catch an ep of Batman: the Brave and the Bold sometime, I know you'd enjoy it a heck of a lot.

[scraptracker]

OMG!

[dragontail]

Totally. This is why I get mentally exhausted as well as physically!

[raisedbymoogles]

....excuse me, I need to go give Batman a GREAT BIG HUG.

(Also, hooray for comic relief!)

[dragontail]

I love that she never lets things get so dark that a joke can't be made. And the follow-up game (yesterday's) was a full-on comedy "episode". Batman went on patrol with Thor, who treats crime-fighting and brawling as the best fun one can have. Which, of course, didn't stop the Thunder God from saving both the day and Batman from the Joker's death traps... but only after much hilarity including multiple visits to the ice-cream shop ("Thou hast no mead? Well then... triple-rainbow swirl be mine choice!"), having his helmet and hammer buffed in the car wash ("Mine weapons shine like the Rainbow Bridge, by Heimdall!") and some dodgy deductive reasoning ("A whiff of gas in the air, the tingle of electricity, scattered bones all around... by Odin's beard! Batman hath gone to a party without me!").

[raisedbymoogles]

....You have got to record this one of these days.

[dragontail]

Only if I could do it without her realising. Believe it or not, she gets cripplingly shy when people are watching her perform, in any sense (this is the kid who, as a baby, practiced walking in her crib after she thought I'd gone to bed), and I'd hate to interrupt the magic.

[bc_scrubs]

Another fantastic installment and a very clever, in-character way of explaining those missing and also a heck of a plot thread left hanging to resolve in the next instalment.
I really wish I had animation or drawing skills so I could convert these storys into pictures, moving or otherwise, but for now I'll just have to be content with the pictures in my head.

[dragontail]

As compared to the usual voices that are there, I'm sure :P

I'm really looking forward to the toys arriving so we can take this arc the next step. What's about to come is truly awesome, even if it comes off half as well as we think it will.