Reviews
So I've gotten around to using my Deviantart account and by used I mean gotten incredibly addicted. Steph, Cass, Babs and Wonder Woman fanart! Funny comics! Naturally, a shit ton of HP! But also, amazing Discworld and Tamora Peirce fanart droooool. I am going to do a picspam of my faves either on here or s_d sometime. BECAUSE OH MY GOD STEPH. Did you know Tim Levins has a deviantart account and he put up the pencils and inks for practically every page he did of issue 4? INCLUDING a missing page! Apparently he did Page 4 of the issue ("This Batgirl doesn't sing...not in front of people, anyway." I hear ya, Steph) b/c he didn't know Lee Garbett was doing it, but DC went with Garbett's instead. And somebody colored it quite spectacularly! (They miscolored Steph's eyes brown for some reason, but I fixed that in photoshop BECAUSE OKAY)
Moving on, quick reviews.
Supergirl #51
I wish I was a superhero. Because I would totally be like Supergirl- whenever I saw someone doing something sketchy, I would punch them into a lower stratosphere. Then I would ask my Mom what was going on, and be like "Oh, that's just Conner. He's family, didn't you know? We are tight buds."
Mom would be like "Wait, didn't you just punch him into space?"
"Yeah, because I wanted to get him off of you. But I totally trust that he's here for a good reason, and you should trust him too."
"Oh. I thought he was a terrorist."
"Mom, see what happens when you jump to conclusions?"
Then Conner would fly back just in time to help us fight the evil braniac drones, which is good, because I was basically down to using a giant laser cannon to fuck their shit up, and he'd be totally be okay with the fact I just punched him through the roof. "Thanks for not breaking my jaw this time!" and I'd be like "I was holding back because we're buds. Thanks for the save!" Then my Mom would be all like, "Zod ordered the guys to be arrested for some reason, so I'm not sure what to do now." And I'd be like "WHO RUNS THIS PLANET HUH MOM YOU OR ZOD?" And she'd be all "damn straight!"
Then I would lead the Legion of Superheroes to liberate all the peeps trapped in alien bottle cities.
Yep, that's totally what my life would be like if I was a superhero.
4.5/5
Secret Six #19
So basically, Ragdoll wonders what it's like to fuck a butterfly and he and Black Alice have a totally fucked up creepy and yet weirdly adorable pre-relationship thing goin'. WHY ARE YOU MAKING MY BRAIN AS TWISTED AS YOURS GAIL SIMONE. She gives him a "Do you like me? Circle Yes No" note, oh my god I LOL'd so hard.
Also, Cheshire just lost Lian and now some peeps are threatening to kill her OTHER baby unless Thomas kills all his friends. Man, poor genocidal terrorist mommy. She has the worst luck ever.
4.5/5
The Unwritten #11
Soooo basically this was amazing as always. First off, we discover that like his REAL literary counterpart, Tommy Taylor apparently died and came back at some point in his books. Only instead of having a heart warming and exposistion laden chat with his deceased mentor, all these demons wanted him to fill out this paperwork to go on to the afterlife and he was like "fuck this shit, I do not fill out paperwork, I fight evil despots." and just decided not to be dead. Presumably then he went back and beat Voldemort in the middle of the Great Hall and had a group hug.
Okay, moving on to the actual plot. Tom is all shot and Savoy is all "WTF MAN NOT COOL" to our friend the Nazi. Fortunately, Lizzie arrives to smash him to goo with a projector. No. literally. She smashes him to gooey phantom stuff while yelling "BASSSTARRRRD!" So far Lizzie has tasered a policeman, tasered Tom and kicked him in the face, punched Tom in the face (Tom has shoved her twice at his point too, I might add, probably in revenge for this abuse) and literally smashed a guy to goo with a projector. She really likes hitting people, so she may be my favorite.
But! The bullets pancaked when they hit Tom! Savoy has a totally logical explanation for this, but Lizzie totes ignores him.
It turns out it was literally Jud suss that bought them here. Because the story was completely twisted around and perverted from it's original intent- it started out as a story of Jewish salvation written by a Jew and the Nazis made a movie about it that was anti Semetic propoganda and far outstripped the book in fame- the story is tortured and has formed a canker or hellword and needs Tom to save it.
I totally adore this you guys, I love literary mythology and meta stuff so much, and this hits my geek button so hard.
So save it Tom does through the power of his lightning bolt scar wheel tattoo. Then Tom figures out the magic doorknob and we get another quotes from the book informing us that as a Ron Weasley expy, Peter Price does indeed share his personality. "What kind of treasure house is this? There's no treasure!" In the text we didn't see, Peter then presumably bitched about being poor for a while and how he doesn't understand why Tommy didn't notice that the leprechaun gold was missing. <3.
The point is that Tom figures out the magical doorknob. Savoy is all "I could kiss you, Tom, only it would compromise my journalistic impartiality!" Okay, Savoy is actually my favorite. If the Unwritten was more popular, I bet that one line would breed a ton of Savoy/Tom slash fiction. It would be glorious.
They drop from the sky onto London, and oh nothey've been gone three months and Savoy has missed his deadline! Tom is all determined to find his dad now, and Savoy is all "it's going to take something big to make him come out in the open" and GUYS IF YOU WOULD EITHER TURN YOUR NEWSPAPER OVER OR LOOK BEHIND YOU YOU'D SEE THE 14TH TOMMY TAYLOR HAS MIRACULOUSLY APPEARED AND IS ABOUT TO BE RELEASED IN THREE DAYS AND THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN.
I love this book.
5/5
Just finished reading Bone as well and I absolutely adore it. Maybe I'll do a full review of it sometime.
Moving on, quick reviews.
Supergirl #51
I wish I was a superhero. Because I would totally be like Supergirl- whenever I saw someone doing something sketchy, I would punch them into a lower stratosphere. Then I would ask my Mom what was going on, and be like "Oh, that's just Conner. He's family, didn't you know? We are tight buds."
Mom would be like "Wait, didn't you just punch him into space?"
"Yeah, because I wanted to get him off of you. But I totally trust that he's here for a good reason, and you should trust him too."
"Oh. I thought he was a terrorist."
"Mom, see what happens when you jump to conclusions?"
Then Conner would fly back just in time to help us fight the evil braniac drones, which is good, because I was basically down to using a giant laser cannon to fuck their shit up, and he'd be totally be okay with the fact I just punched him through the roof. "Thanks for not breaking my jaw this time!" and I'd be like "I was holding back because we're buds. Thanks for the save!" Then my Mom would be all like, "Zod ordered the guys to be arrested for some reason, so I'm not sure what to do now." And I'd be like "WHO RUNS THIS PLANET HUH MOM YOU OR ZOD?" And she'd be all "damn straight!"
Then I would lead the Legion of Superheroes to liberate all the peeps trapped in alien bottle cities.
Yep, that's totally what my life would be like if I was a superhero.
4.5/5
Secret Six #19
So basically, Ragdoll wonders what it's like to fuck a butterfly and he and Black Alice have a totally fucked up creepy and yet weirdly adorable pre-relationship thing goin'. WHY ARE YOU MAKING MY BRAIN AS TWISTED AS YOURS GAIL SIMONE. She gives him a "Do you like me? Circle Yes No" note, oh my god I LOL'd so hard.
Also, Cheshire just lost Lian and now some peeps are threatening to kill her OTHER baby unless Thomas kills all his friends. Man, poor genocidal terrorist mommy. She has the worst luck ever.
4.5/5
The Unwritten #11
Soooo basically this was amazing as always. First off, we discover that like his REAL literary counterpart, Tommy Taylor apparently died and came back at some point in his books. Only instead of having a heart warming and exposistion laden chat with his deceased mentor, all these demons wanted him to fill out this paperwork to go on to the afterlife and he was like "fuck this shit, I do not fill out paperwork, I fight evil despots." and just decided not to be dead. Presumably then he went back and beat Voldemort in the middle of the Great Hall and had a group hug.
Okay, moving on to the actual plot. Tom is all shot and Savoy is all "WTF MAN NOT COOL" to our friend the Nazi. Fortunately, Lizzie arrives to smash him to goo with a projector. No. literally. She smashes him to gooey phantom stuff while yelling "BASSSTARRRRD!" So far Lizzie has tasered a policeman, tasered Tom and kicked him in the face, punched Tom in the face (Tom has shoved her twice at his point too, I might add, probably in revenge for this abuse) and literally smashed a guy to goo with a projector. She really likes hitting people, so she may be my favorite.
But! The bullets pancaked when they hit Tom! Savoy has a totally logical explanation for this, but Lizzie totes ignores him.
It turns out it was literally Jud suss that bought them here. Because the story was completely twisted around and perverted from it's original intent- it started out as a story of Jewish salvation written by a Jew and the Nazis made a movie about it that was anti Semetic propoganda and far outstripped the book in fame- the story is tortured and has formed a canker or hellword and needs Tom to save it.
I totally adore this you guys, I love literary mythology and meta stuff so much, and this hits my geek button so hard.
So save it Tom does through the power of his lightning bolt scar wheel tattoo. Then Tom figures out the magic doorknob and we get another quotes from the book informing us that as a Ron Weasley expy, Peter Price does indeed share his personality. "What kind of treasure house is this? There's no treasure!" In the text we didn't see, Peter then presumably bitched about being poor for a while and how he doesn't understand why Tommy didn't notice that the leprechaun gold was missing. <3.
The point is that Tom figures out the magical doorknob. Savoy is all "I could kiss you, Tom, only it would compromise my journalistic impartiality!" Okay, Savoy is actually my favorite. If the Unwritten was more popular, I bet that one line would breed a ton of Savoy/Tom slash fiction. It would be glorious.
They drop from the sky onto London, and oh nothey've been gone three months and Savoy has missed his deadline! Tom is all determined to find his dad now, and Savoy is all "it's going to take something big to make him come out in the open" and GUYS IF YOU WOULD EITHER TURN YOUR NEWSPAPER OVER OR LOOK BEHIND YOU YOU'D SEE THE 14TH TOMMY TAYLOR HAS MIRACULOUSLY APPEARED AND IS ABOUT TO BE RELEASED IN THREE DAYS AND THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN.
I love this book.
5/5
Just finished reading Bone as well and I absolutely adore it. Maybe I'll do a full review of it sometime.