P.S. Cover yourself.
Alright who watched House last night? Because DEAR GOD. Every week I find myself thinking that there's no way House and Wilson can get any more married and then every week I'm proven wrong. So, so wrong. This time though - I . . GOD. I was staggered and all I can do even now is sit here and wave my arms around and open and close my mouth over and over again like a fish. THE GAY, IT KNOCKED ME OFF MY ASS. Is there even the smallest room to go farther than they did last night and not be straight out canon? My mind can not even comprehend it. I don't know how many people watch House around these parts but if you do, dudes. Come on and freak out with me in the comments over the thing and the other thing and GOD.
Now, I'm assuming that everyone knows there's a longer Order of the Phoenix trailer out and everybody is so blase about it they didn't think it worth mentioning? Because I still have my toe in HP fandom and haven't seen it mentioned once. In fact, I found out about it through comics fandom for Pete's sake. The hell? IS NOT EVERYONE EXCITED ABOUT THIS?!! OotP is my favorite book, bring that on!
This has been everywhere but Scientists found Kryptonite. Ha! Maybe they'll find the ruins of Themyscira or a defunct power ring next.
I hope everyone knows by now how fantastic mahaliem is. If not, get with the program already. She is like chocolate and rainbows and porn and she wrote Clark/Ollie!! A Friend in Need. For me!! My head left my body and can currently be reached on cloud nine.
Know what else she wrote? This terribly amusing response to Allison Mack's new blog - Hiatus Diary of A - The First Ten Days. Too bad she's married and taken already because pure LOVE is what I have for her.
Likewise, if you don't know how fantastic hackthis is, I don't even want to know what your deal is. Your fangirl gene is likely diseased and dying, so please keep away. Already this week she wrote stoned and dirty talking Peter fic - We're Made Out of Blood and Rust and def•i•ni•tion [ dèffə nísh'n ] which looks like it's a coda to this week's Heroes episode 0.07%. I say looks because I haven't actually read it yet but I know in my bones that it rocks like a rocking chair during an earthquake because it's Zahra. There is no other way it could be.
talitha78 planted a tree on my user page and I love fandom! Love, love, love.
Even when it says stupid things about the Nightwing Annual which I'll get to but first - your last random rad thing of the day - the Wes Anderson American Express commercial. Ahhh Jason Schwartzman ♥
It's new comic day! NEW JSA!! I've been reading comics and I'm going to jabber about them and post pictures even though whoever reads this has probably already seen them! Because it's pretty and who knows, maybe there is some poor soul who isn't reading what I'm reading and will change their mind when they see how yaye it is!
World War/52 #50:
I enjoyed it the same way that I usually enjoy 52 in that I was entertained and I smiled, but only a few things really got me pumped up and going.
One of those things was all the panels of all the heroes coming together to fight Black Adam. All the silly costumes and weird powers and crazy back stories! Oh how I love how insanely cracked out comics are.
Black Adam ripping people's arms off and punching straight through bodies! Heck yes! I'm desensitized to violence now give me more.
Jason made me laugh and clap my hands like a monkey. Nothing new there.
"You'll never guess who taught me that." *SNORT* It's awesome to see Jason running around in the Nightwing outfit in something other than Bruce Jones' so-bad-it-made-Dick-and-me-cry run. I've got an itch to go re-read glossing's wonderful Kon/Jason fic - Intricate Days.
Dear DC,
Please keep Jason around for at least the next ten years before you decide to go and kill him again. He is fucked up, rowdy, rollicking times.
xo
Ashley
I guess by the end I just felt the whole World War thing was kinda pointless? It amuses and pleases me in the way all silly aspects of things I love do, that they went through all that hype and hoopla and drama just to change the what? Five? Six? things that have changed since the Crisis.
Outsiders #45-46:
The new art is tragic. You've got the material - Dick and Roy are born hotasses - why not draw them that way?! Grace's hair makes me laugh. Anissa's breasts make me laugh. Not good laughing either. Next artist, please!
Roy with Lian is insanely cute.
She's hanging off his leg! I coo like a kookaburra. Dick should have babies next. And then do you notice what name Roy is saying? YEAH. MINE. It's the little things in life *g*
As for everything else, I get a kick out of the way Dick trusts Jason's info and the Grace/Anissa thing continues to be AWESOME.
Birds of Prey #105:
They all kickass, Barda is still my future wife, and I can not wait for Babs to take Katarina down. That's all I got. Nothing but love.
Green Arrow #73:
I have read barely any Arrows so is this how Ollie interacts with his 'kids'?
Because that made me cheshire cat grin. I wasn't expecting Bat behavior but wow look at him hug him. Also - innards!!! ♥
Flash #9:
The first issue with the new writer and could it be? Does Bart feel like Bart?
BART!!! I RECOGNIZE YOU!! Please pull up a chair and stick around for a while.
I care nothing for the plot so far and I'm iffy about Bart being a cop but I'm just so happy that he feels like Bart I could care less.
And he talked to Tim on the phone! Finally!
JSA #3-4:
I change my mind all the time but when I'm reading this book, I feel like it's my favorite. I don't know half the people's names - hero or otherwise, I get them all mixed up, and it's so damn super that it doesn't even matter. I love everything -
Ted's gorgeous were-kitty son!
Cyclone's striped socks!
Super surgeon dude AHAHAHAHAHA! Seriously. A super surgeon? GENIUS.
Crazy cakes Star guy! An actual crazy, lives in a mental health facility superhero!! DOUBLE GENIUS!
Burned up faces!
Hawkman's bare chest!
Powergirl for leader!!!
The way Jay, Ted, and Alan are all still badass!!
EVERYTHING.
JLA #8:
CROSSOVER WITH JSA! I am a very, very happy girl.
Where to even start?
Training with each other ALFJALKDFALJFDLAJFDALFJDLKASFJDLSAK. Mr. Terrific is just that - TERRIFIC. I want more and more and MORE of him interacting with Bruce. Chess with Dinah and Hal and Bruce butting in to say what Michael was up to with his moves.
Then Roy and them basically playing capture the flag?!! In the cemetery with Roy's names on all the graves?! And Roy practically winning? Bliss, guys. BLISS.
Bruce saying he loves to prove Clark wrong and practically trash talking "Actually, we call it fist-fighting. Straight from Gotham City"! I hurt my sides laughing.
I was ready to make out with the thing already but when I got to Clark saying "Take your time, son." That was it. OF COURSE CLARK WOULD SAY SON LIKE THAT. I could not contain my mirth.
I didn't think it could but it got better - that last page with them all talking together? Joy in ink.
Carter and Hal debating about the ring.
Roy offering to be a sponsor.
Even Jay thinks Clark's jokes are old and corny.
And my favorite - Powergirl and Bruce talking about books.
Her boobs are something else but drinking tea and talking about books!! I was so high on glee if I had been anywhere near the roof, I'd probably have jumped off thinking I could fly.
Brave and the Bold #3:
I'm doubly convinced that I need to start reading Blue Beetle. Jaime's a hoot!
Does anyone know how long they are planning on putting this book out? I want it to go on for the next 50 years. I want Jaime and Bruce to hang out together for the next fifty years.
Batsnowblower. *laughs and laughs* People who don't read comics have NO idea what they are missing. Every page of this is a gem.
It's always first class awesome seeing the Bats from an outsiders point of view. Even better with Bruce putting on his scary and the voice and being his general FREAK self.
Jaime got to see the Bat, but he also got to see Bruce and that killed me.
Absolutely killed me. There's the obvious hilarity of Bruce grabbing onto his horn thing instead of his shoulder and Jaime's response to Bruce being nice. More than that though - Bruce was so great with him. The way he kept encouraging him and almost training with all the 'Stay focused and you're doing fine' talk. He was patient and reminded me of the way he is with his Robins at the best of times and just BRUCE. Sometimes I forget that I love him. Fervently.
Jaime played off him so beautifully I think I may ship them now for life. He's the kind of funny, open personality that's a perfect counterpoint to Bruce. The way Jaime immediately called him sir. Heee.
They need to be porned up! Someone get on it.
Batman #664:
I seem to be the only person having a ball with Morrison's Batman. Ya'll are missing out. Big time.
First page is a bunch of knocked out ninja manbats!! Already we're at a level three in awesome.
Then Bruce is running around on ski slopes and finding his inner James Bond.
And the awesome level just went up by 2 points. It's obvious I'm not the only one having a ball. Morrison sure is. Bruce is too. Get on the dance floor and join in.
Ahahahahaha just look at his entrance! Bruce has this wicked, quiet sense of humor and try and tell me he's not cracking himself up with that. Really playing with his whole ladies man persona.
The way he says "For you, Jezebel". Lord. I can barely contain my mirth over here and neither can he.
The icing on the cake is that it's a Pennyworth blue. Sublime might be overstating but, SUBLIME.
Not satisfied with his outstanding entrance, he moves on to taking helicopters down.
We're at at least a level ten awesome already. HOW FUCKING FANTASTIC WAS THAT?! Of course Batman could do that with one shot.
"Oops. My mistake."
Bruce having fun like this - the sexiest thing ever? Yes or no?
The correct answer would be - HELL YES!
If you answered differently, please try again later.
Don't worry. He's still got a lifelong supply of angst.
That last panel had my sides splitting. YES, YOU SURE DID GET OVER THAT ONE.
Know what else is sexy? Bruce's foot on people's faces.
Don't ask. IT DOES IT FOR ME. Don't judge either. You know you like it too.
You'd offer a freebie just like this chick does.
He said dirtbags. OH BRUCE. That and prostitutes hitting on him will never stop being funny. I literally guffaw.
Dear Grant Morrison,
I've heard a lot about you being confusing and on the crack but with this run on Batman and All Star Superman, I think I might be a little in love with you. Hope that's not inconvenient.
Keep right up with that ball you're so obviously having.
xo
Nightwing Annual #2:
If joygasm was a physical possibility, I would have experienced it while reading this. I was so fucking happy with it that by the end I had tears streaming down my face. I wouldn't make that up as it's mortifying and yes, I am becoming a true freak in my old age.
The best/worst part? I was sitting in the bookstore.
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK.
I was talking to sockich and she told me that there was hate going around for the annual and I was completely blown away with shock. I mean WHAAAAT?! Are these people the antichrist or what? I hope this isn't the majority fandom opinion.
She linked me to one post and then I saw that there's a fix the Nightwing Annual challenge going on and I have never been so tempted to pointlessly argue with someone this way before. We're all beautiful snowflakes yada yada unique cakes and our differing opinions are what make us special and life interesting but. That said. If you hated the annual or worse you hate Dick - you are not only a moron, you are of the devil and clearly a soulless, hard hearted, waste of space and while you do have my deepest sympathy, please keep your poison as far away from me as possible. (Takes a time out to glare at issyadore)
I loved everything about the issue except for Dick's comment that says that Babs and Dick are the same age because NO. I overlook that though because isn't that what everyone does who reads comics? That's the beauty of them. There's no need to ever hate on them as there's a limitless (might as well be limitless anyways with the sheer amount) number of places you can go to find something you do like. Pick and choose and make them what you want them to be.
My sister and I had a blast ranting to each other about how crazy all of the hate points were and since I could go on and on and I told sockich that I would - let's go through the points one by one and prove them all to be the lame cakes they openly are.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #1 seems to be that Dick and Babs are not Batgirl and Robin anymore so let them grow up and move on and get over all the flashbacks.
- Ummm. Okay. Is that seriously a point? Tiresome.
People who have a long history together tend to talk about that history. My best friend that I've known since I was 12 do it all the time. We revisit stories and laugh. Just this last weekend, my whole family spent hours going over old memories. It's a bonding thing. I'm pretty damn sure that both Babs and Dick are aware that they are no longer Batgirl and Robin and that they aren't ever going to be them again.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #2 - The dialogue in the issue is terrible. Especially Dick's comment - "Hey, Batgirl! He said Butt! Heh, heh." - because that's immature and Dick takes his job seriously and would never say something like that.
- This made me choke on my own laughter. I WAS HOWLING. Dick wouldn't say something like that?! What Dick Grayson have other people been reading?! Dick's lame jokes are legendary. I could come up with a hundred examples without even trying. His inner monologue is peppered regularly with Bada-bings! Seriously?
Comic dialogue is always sorta lame. It's endearing. Might as well embrace it or go read something else.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #3 - Babs/Dick is out of character and stupid because whenever Babs/Dick is presented, Babs is shown to be the most important person past, present, or future in Dick's life.
- There is the whole thing where if you love somebody, they're pretty fucking important to you. But aside from that, I don't even know whose butt that was pulled out of. The first thing Dick does after waking up from the coma is try to get up to go help Bruce and Bludhaven!
Dick loves everybody exhaustedly. That's who he is!
Soul Sucking Hate Point #4 is along the same lines - No one is as important as Babs and Kory was just some random fuck who was an adequate Babs substitute. Babs is presented as the great love of his life when really she's just an adolescent jerk off fantasy and he should move on like grown ups do.
- Alright. Again with the Dick loves everybody exhaustedly. He loves Babs. He loves Kory. He can love BOTH of them.
I have zero problem with the way he slept with Babs and then handed her a wedding invitation because THAT'S SO DICK I COULD CRY ALL OVER AGAIN WITH LOVE FOR HIM.
Yes, that's douchey and if it was anybody else doing it I'd think they were a giant ass and that both of the women involved should kick him to the curb post haste. However, it's DICK. Because of the way he relates and loves people - he would 1) not be able to help himself. People show some kind of sign of needing him and he's stripped and ready for naked time before you can blink. And 2) he doesn't grasp the full doucheness of that - he would never - I repeat NEVER - do that maliciously.
I'm not excusing him but if you can't see how that's inherently a Dick thing to do (he's beautiful because of his flaws as well as his attributes) and how he absolutely loves both of them - I just don't see how we read the same books.
The bit where Babs went to go see Dick in NY (she was bringing him chocolate and flowers!! Heeeee) and Kory answers and she never gets to tell him, so Dick says "If I'd known . .". Yeah, he might have left Kory for Babs. Or he might not have. Who knows. That still wouldn't have meant that Kory wasn't important to him or that she didn't mean something.
Babs is clearly the love of his life. She has been FOREVER. Man, people need to put down the crack pipes sometimes. The adolescent jerk off fantasy comment is just viscous.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #5 - Implying Dick had a hard on was immature and a waste of time.
- SERIOUSLY. PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPE.
THAT PANEL WAS A GIFT TO ALL FANGIRLS. The end.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #6 - Something dumb about Babs being a Mary Sue and a whiny bitch who is always talking about how she wished she'd died when the Joker shot her.
- I got nothing for this one. IT'S TOO RETARDED. With the whining thing - maybe I just haven't read enough yet but I have never seen Babs do this. Not once. If you know of a time, please jump in and let me know because interesting.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #7 - We still don't know why they broke up and neither one of them grew up at the end of it.
- HELLO? They broke up because Babs was encouraging Dick to go grow up and find his own person. Also he ran off for a year with his Daddy and his little brother. Come back to me when you know yourself etc etc. HOW IS THAT HARD TO GRASP?
Dick didn't grow up because Dick will probably never fully grow up. He'll always be just on the cusp of it (it's not a Robin cusp either - two very different things) and that's just the way it is.
That cusp is one of the reasons I find him so endlessly beautiful. It would seem that he's stuck and stagnating but really he's in a perpetual state of hope and movement. Falling, flying through the air and never hitting the ground.
I'm at the place in my life where I'm trying to figure out how to grow up and know myself and I think that's a huge part of why I love him as much as I do. Why Nightwing Y1 makes me feel the way it does. As corny as it is - Dick gives me fucking hope. He's my hero.
And really isn't everybody trying to grow up? Does anybody really get over that feeling? I don't want Dick to grow up. I want him to stay right where he is and to keep on embodying prospects and the bend in the road - and just doing that thing he does to me.
Holy balls I am long winded. *laughs my ass off*
To wrap up - my favorite part of the annual -
The boys finally commenting on warm fuzzy Bruce!!
As for Tim's cheeriness - reading a panel isn't listening to an actor or watching a performance. You get to put that in there. Tim smiling like that doesn't mean shit about how devastated he is feeling on the inside. It doesn't diminish it! You don't think Tim can fake the outside as well as Bruce? Put his hurt in his eyes or in something in his voice. HE AIN'T OUT OF CHARACTER. His covering it up is TIM and DELICIOUS.
Awwwww Batfamily.
Now, I'm assuming that everyone knows there's a longer Order of the Phoenix trailer out and everybody is so blase about it they didn't think it worth mentioning? Because I still have my toe in HP fandom and haven't seen it mentioned once. In fact, I found out about it through comics fandom for Pete's sake. The hell? IS NOT EVERYONE EXCITED ABOUT THIS?!! OotP is my favorite book, bring that on!
This has been everywhere but Scientists found Kryptonite. Ha! Maybe they'll find the ruins of Themyscira or a defunct power ring next.
I hope everyone knows by now how fantastic mahaliem is. If not, get with the program already. She is like chocolate and rainbows and porn and she wrote Clark/Ollie!! A Friend in Need. For me!! My head left my body and can currently be reached on cloud nine.
Know what else she wrote? This terribly amusing response to Allison Mack's new blog - Hiatus Diary of A - The First Ten Days. Too bad she's married and taken already because pure LOVE is what I have for her.
Likewise, if you don't know how fantastic hackthis is, I don't even want to know what your deal is. Your fangirl gene is likely diseased and dying, so please keep away. Already this week she wrote stoned and dirty talking Peter fic - We're Made Out of Blood and Rust and def•i•ni•tion [ dèffə nísh'n ] which looks like it's a coda to this week's Heroes episode 0.07%. I say looks because I haven't actually read it yet but I know in my bones that it rocks like a rocking chair during an earthquake because it's Zahra. There is no other way it could be.
talitha78 planted a tree on my user page and I love fandom! Love, love, love.
Even when it says stupid things about the Nightwing Annual which I'll get to but first - your last random rad thing of the day - the Wes Anderson American Express commercial. Ahhh Jason Schwartzman ♥
It's new comic day! NEW JSA!! I've been reading comics and I'm going to jabber about them and post pictures even though whoever reads this has probably already seen them! Because it's pretty and who knows, maybe there is some poor soul who isn't reading what I'm reading and will change their mind when they see how yaye it is!
World War/52 #50:
I enjoyed it the same way that I usually enjoy 52 in that I was entertained and I smiled, but only a few things really got me pumped up and going.
One of those things was all the panels of all the heroes coming together to fight Black Adam. All the silly costumes and weird powers and crazy back stories! Oh how I love how insanely cracked out comics are.
Black Adam ripping people's arms off and punching straight through bodies! Heck yes! I'm desensitized to violence now give me more.
Jason made me laugh and clap my hands like a monkey. Nothing new there.
"You'll never guess who taught me that." *SNORT* It's awesome to see Jason running around in the Nightwing outfit in something other than Bruce Jones' so-bad-it-made-Dick-and-me-cry run. I've got an itch to go re-read glossing's wonderful Kon/Jason fic - Intricate Days.
Dear DC,
Please keep Jason around for at least the next ten years before you decide to go and kill him again. He is fucked up, rowdy, rollicking times.
xo
Ashley
I guess by the end I just felt the whole World War thing was kinda pointless? It amuses and pleases me in the way all silly aspects of things I love do, that they went through all that hype and hoopla and drama just to change the what? Five? Six? things that have changed since the Crisis.
Outsiders #45-46:
The new art is tragic. You've got the material - Dick and Roy are born hotasses - why not draw them that way?! Grace's hair makes me laugh. Anissa's breasts make me laugh. Not good laughing either. Next artist, please!
Roy with Lian is insanely cute.
She's hanging off his leg! I coo like a kookaburra. Dick should have babies next. And then do you notice what name Roy is saying? YEAH. MINE. It's the little things in life *g*
As for everything else, I get a kick out of the way Dick trusts Jason's info and the Grace/Anissa thing continues to be AWESOME.
Birds of Prey #105:
They all kickass, Barda is still my future wife, and I can not wait for Babs to take Katarina down. That's all I got. Nothing but love.
Green Arrow #73:
I have read barely any Arrows so is this how Ollie interacts with his 'kids'?
Because that made me cheshire cat grin. I wasn't expecting Bat behavior but wow look at him hug him. Also - innards!!! ♥
Flash #9:
The first issue with the new writer and could it be? Does Bart feel like Bart?
BART!!! I RECOGNIZE YOU!! Please pull up a chair and stick around for a while.
I care nothing for the plot so far and I'm iffy about Bart being a cop but I'm just so happy that he feels like Bart I could care less.
And he talked to Tim on the phone! Finally!
JSA #3-4:
I change my mind all the time but when I'm reading this book, I feel like it's my favorite. I don't know half the people's names - hero or otherwise, I get them all mixed up, and it's so damn super that it doesn't even matter. I love everything -
Ted's gorgeous were-kitty son!
Cyclone's striped socks!
Super surgeon dude AHAHAHAHAHA! Seriously. A super surgeon? GENIUS.
Crazy cakes Star guy! An actual crazy, lives in a mental health facility superhero!! DOUBLE GENIUS!
Burned up faces!
Hawkman's bare chest!
Powergirl for leader!!!
The way Jay, Ted, and Alan are all still badass!!
EVERYTHING.
JLA #8:
CROSSOVER WITH JSA! I am a very, very happy girl.
Where to even start?
Training with each other ALFJALKDFALJFDLAJFDALFJDLKASFJDLSAK. Mr. Terrific is just that - TERRIFIC. I want more and more and MORE of him interacting with Bruce. Chess with Dinah and Hal and Bruce butting in to say what Michael was up to with his moves.
Then Roy and them basically playing capture the flag?!! In the cemetery with Roy's names on all the graves?! And Roy practically winning? Bliss, guys. BLISS.
Bruce saying he loves to prove Clark wrong and practically trash talking "Actually, we call it fist-fighting. Straight from Gotham City"! I hurt my sides laughing.
I was ready to make out with the thing already but when I got to Clark saying "Take your time, son." That was it. OF COURSE CLARK WOULD SAY SON LIKE THAT. I could not contain my mirth.
I didn't think it could but it got better - that last page with them all talking together? Joy in ink.
Carter and Hal debating about the ring.
Roy offering to be a sponsor.
Even Jay thinks Clark's jokes are old and corny.
And my favorite - Powergirl and Bruce talking about books.
Her boobs are something else but drinking tea and talking about books!! I was so high on glee if I had been anywhere near the roof, I'd probably have jumped off thinking I could fly.
Brave and the Bold #3:
I'm doubly convinced that I need to start reading Blue Beetle. Jaime's a hoot!
Does anyone know how long they are planning on putting this book out? I want it to go on for the next 50 years. I want Jaime and Bruce to hang out together for the next fifty years.
Batsnowblower. *laughs and laughs* People who don't read comics have NO idea what they are missing. Every page of this is a gem.
It's always first class awesome seeing the Bats from an outsiders point of view. Even better with Bruce putting on his scary and the voice and being his general FREAK self.
Jaime got to see the Bat, but he also got to see Bruce and that killed me.
Absolutely killed me. There's the obvious hilarity of Bruce grabbing onto his horn thing instead of his shoulder and Jaime's response to Bruce being nice. More than that though - Bruce was so great with him. The way he kept encouraging him and almost training with all the 'Stay focused and you're doing fine' talk. He was patient and reminded me of the way he is with his Robins at the best of times and just BRUCE. Sometimes I forget that I love him. Fervently.
Jaime played off him so beautifully I think I may ship them now for life. He's the kind of funny, open personality that's a perfect counterpoint to Bruce. The way Jaime immediately called him sir. Heee.
They need to be porned up! Someone get on it.
Batman #664:
I seem to be the only person having a ball with Morrison's Batman. Ya'll are missing out. Big time.
First page is a bunch of knocked out ninja manbats!! Already we're at a level three in awesome.
Then Bruce is running around on ski slopes and finding his inner James Bond.
And the awesome level just went up by 2 points. It's obvious I'm not the only one having a ball. Morrison sure is. Bruce is too. Get on the dance floor and join in.
Ahahahahaha just look at his entrance! Bruce has this wicked, quiet sense of humor and try and tell me he's not cracking himself up with that. Really playing with his whole ladies man persona.
The way he says "For you, Jezebel". Lord. I can barely contain my mirth over here and neither can he.
The icing on the cake is that it's a Pennyworth blue. Sublime might be overstating but, SUBLIME.
Not satisfied with his outstanding entrance, he moves on to taking helicopters down.
We're at at least a level ten awesome already. HOW FUCKING FANTASTIC WAS THAT?! Of course Batman could do that with one shot.
"Oops. My mistake."
Bruce having fun like this - the sexiest thing ever? Yes or no?
The correct answer would be - HELL YES!
If you answered differently, please try again later.
Don't worry. He's still got a lifelong supply of angst.
That last panel had my sides splitting. YES, YOU SURE DID GET OVER THAT ONE.
Know what else is sexy? Bruce's foot on people's faces.
Don't ask. IT DOES IT FOR ME. Don't judge either. You know you like it too.
You'd offer a freebie just like this chick does.
He said dirtbags. OH BRUCE. That and prostitutes hitting on him will never stop being funny. I literally guffaw.
Dear Grant Morrison,
I've heard a lot about you being confusing and on the crack but with this run on Batman and All Star Superman, I think I might be a little in love with you. Hope that's not inconvenient.
Keep right up with that ball you're so obviously having.
xo
Nightwing Annual #2:
If joygasm was a physical possibility, I would have experienced it while reading this. I was so fucking happy with it that by the end I had tears streaming down my face. I wouldn't make that up as it's mortifying and yes, I am becoming a true freak in my old age.
The best/worst part? I was sitting in the bookstore.
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK.
I was talking to sockich and she told me that there was hate going around for the annual and I was completely blown away with shock. I mean WHAAAAT?! Are these people the antichrist or what? I hope this isn't the majority fandom opinion.
She linked me to one post and then I saw that there's a fix the Nightwing Annual challenge going on and I have never been so tempted to pointlessly argue with someone this way before. We're all beautiful snowflakes yada yada unique cakes and our differing opinions are what make us special and life interesting but. That said. If you hated the annual or worse you hate Dick - you are not only a moron, you are of the devil and clearly a soulless, hard hearted, waste of space and while you do have my deepest sympathy, please keep your poison as far away from me as possible. (Takes a time out to glare at issyadore)
I loved everything about the issue except for Dick's comment that says that Babs and Dick are the same age because NO. I overlook that though because isn't that what everyone does who reads comics? That's the beauty of them. There's no need to ever hate on them as there's a limitless (might as well be limitless anyways with the sheer amount) number of places you can go to find something you do like. Pick and choose and make them what you want them to be.
My sister and I had a blast ranting to each other about how crazy all of the hate points were and since I could go on and on and I told sockich that I would - let's go through the points one by one and prove them all to be the lame cakes they openly are.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #1 seems to be that Dick and Babs are not Batgirl and Robin anymore so let them grow up and move on and get over all the flashbacks.
- Ummm. Okay. Is that seriously a point? Tiresome.
People who have a long history together tend to talk about that history. My best friend that I've known since I was 12 do it all the time. We revisit stories and laugh. Just this last weekend, my whole family spent hours going over old memories. It's a bonding thing. I'm pretty damn sure that both Babs and Dick are aware that they are no longer Batgirl and Robin and that they aren't ever going to be them again.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #2 - The dialogue in the issue is terrible. Especially Dick's comment - "Hey, Batgirl! He said Butt! Heh, heh." - because that's immature and Dick takes his job seriously and would never say something like that.
- This made me choke on my own laughter. I WAS HOWLING. Dick wouldn't say something like that?! What Dick Grayson have other people been reading?! Dick's lame jokes are legendary. I could come up with a hundred examples without even trying. His inner monologue is peppered regularly with Bada-bings! Seriously?
Comic dialogue is always sorta lame. It's endearing. Might as well embrace it or go read something else.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #3 - Babs/Dick is out of character and stupid because whenever Babs/Dick is presented, Babs is shown to be the most important person past, present, or future in Dick's life.
- There is the whole thing where if you love somebody, they're pretty fucking important to you. But aside from that, I don't even know whose butt that was pulled out of. The first thing Dick does after waking up from the coma is try to get up to go help Bruce and Bludhaven!
Dick loves everybody exhaustedly. That's who he is!
Soul Sucking Hate Point #4 is along the same lines - No one is as important as Babs and Kory was just some random fuck who was an adequate Babs substitute. Babs is presented as the great love of his life when really she's just an adolescent jerk off fantasy and he should move on like grown ups do.
- Alright. Again with the Dick loves everybody exhaustedly. He loves Babs. He loves Kory. He can love BOTH of them.
I have zero problem with the way he slept with Babs and then handed her a wedding invitation because THAT'S SO DICK I COULD CRY ALL OVER AGAIN WITH LOVE FOR HIM.
Yes, that's douchey and if it was anybody else doing it I'd think they were a giant ass and that both of the women involved should kick him to the curb post haste. However, it's DICK. Because of the way he relates and loves people - he would 1) not be able to help himself. People show some kind of sign of needing him and he's stripped and ready for naked time before you can blink. And 2) he doesn't grasp the full doucheness of that - he would never - I repeat NEVER - do that maliciously.
I'm not excusing him but if you can't see how that's inherently a Dick thing to do (he's beautiful because of his flaws as well as his attributes) and how he absolutely loves both of them - I just don't see how we read the same books.
The bit where Babs went to go see Dick in NY (she was bringing him chocolate and flowers!! Heeeee) and Kory answers and she never gets to tell him, so Dick says "If I'd known . .". Yeah, he might have left Kory for Babs. Or he might not have. Who knows. That still wouldn't have meant that Kory wasn't important to him or that she didn't mean something.
Babs is clearly the love of his life. She has been FOREVER. Man, people need to put down the crack pipes sometimes. The adolescent jerk off fantasy comment is just viscous.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #5 - Implying Dick had a hard on was immature and a waste of time.
- SERIOUSLY. PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPE.
THAT PANEL WAS A GIFT TO ALL FANGIRLS. The end.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #6 - Something dumb about Babs being a Mary Sue and a whiny bitch who is always talking about how she wished she'd died when the Joker shot her.
- I got nothing for this one. IT'S TOO RETARDED. With the whining thing - maybe I just haven't read enough yet but I have never seen Babs do this. Not once. If you know of a time, please jump in and let me know because interesting.
Soul Sucking Hate Point #7 - We still don't know why they broke up and neither one of them grew up at the end of it.
- HELLO? They broke up because Babs was encouraging Dick to go grow up and find his own person. Also he ran off for a year with his Daddy and his little brother. Come back to me when you know yourself etc etc. HOW IS THAT HARD TO GRASP?
Dick didn't grow up because Dick will probably never fully grow up. He'll always be just on the cusp of it (it's not a Robin cusp either - two very different things) and that's just the way it is.
That cusp is one of the reasons I find him so endlessly beautiful. It would seem that he's stuck and stagnating but really he's in a perpetual state of hope and movement. Falling, flying through the air and never hitting the ground.
I'm at the place in my life where I'm trying to figure out how to grow up and know myself and I think that's a huge part of why I love him as much as I do. Why Nightwing Y1 makes me feel the way it does. As corny as it is - Dick gives me fucking hope. He's my hero.
And really isn't everybody trying to grow up? Does anybody really get over that feeling? I don't want Dick to grow up. I want him to stay right where he is and to keep on embodying prospects and the bend in the road - and just doing that thing he does to me.
Holy balls I am long winded. *laughs my ass off*
To wrap up - my favorite part of the annual -
The boys finally commenting on warm fuzzy Bruce!!
As for Tim's cheeriness - reading a panel isn't listening to an actor or watching a performance. You get to put that in there. Tim smiling like that doesn't mean shit about how devastated he is feeling on the inside. It doesn't diminish it! You don't think Tim can fake the outside as well as Bruce? Put his hurt in his eyes or in something in his voice. HE AIN'T OUT OF CHARACTER. His covering it up is TIM and DELICIOUS.
Awwwww Batfamily.