Thursday Who's Who Is Why I Put Up With That SYTYCD BS
So, Over on MGK.com there's a regular feature called "Thursday Who's Who" that is only intermittenly interrupted for So You Think You Can Dance commentary (and Jesus, I wish I was kidding). Thursday Who's Who takes a character from DC's brave attempt at OHOTMU goodness and rates them on the Rex The Wonder Dog scale.
Today's feature takes us back to the good old days, when new features would get a 12 page introduction in DC Comics Presents or Teen Titans (which, ironically enough, got a 12 page introduction in DC Comics Presents) or, in this case, Legion of Super-Heroes. The chracter is Dark Opal, the villain of the DC Maxi-series Amethyst.
MGK describes Amethyst's concept as such:
Nowadays the concept of an ongoing fantasy comics series targeting young girls seems like the sort of thing that makes DC editorial go “hsssst!” and then cower in the darkness. “Catering to different demographicsss.. it burns us, precious, it burrrrrns.”
That phrase, btw, made me spit my tea all over my computer monitor.
Amethyst seems silly, if only because it sounds like the standard "magical princess from another world" trope (much like Power Pack is about a group of kids who get super powers form their magical space pony, and a shiny cyber-nickel to anyone who can link me to the TV Tropes pages for those two). But the series was well liked by its readers, which for some reason I wasn't one of. It's one of those DC stories from the past that are not currently available, much like Atlantis Chronicles.
And no, I'm not gonna shut up about that. You can get Camelot 3000 in trade, but not a book that does something interesting with Atlantis? Fuck that shit.
Anyway, yeah, Amethyst was neat.
Today's feature takes us back to the good old days, when new features would get a 12 page introduction in DC Comics Presents or Teen Titans (which, ironically enough, got a 12 page introduction in DC Comics Presents) or, in this case, Legion of Super-Heroes. The chracter is Dark Opal, the villain of the DC Maxi-series Amethyst.
MGK describes Amethyst's concept as such:
Nowadays the concept of an ongoing fantasy comics series targeting young girls seems like the sort of thing that makes DC editorial go “hsssst!” and then cower in the darkness. “Catering to different demographicsss.. it burns us, precious, it burrrrrns.”
That phrase, btw, made me spit my tea all over my computer monitor.
Amethyst seems silly, if only because it sounds like the standard "magical princess from another world" trope (much like Power Pack is about a group of kids who get super powers form their magical space pony, and a shiny cyber-nickel to anyone who can link me to the TV Tropes pages for those two). But the series was well liked by its readers, which for some reason I wasn't one of. It's one of those DC stories from the past that are not currently available, much like Atlantis Chronicles.
And no, I'm not gonna shut up about that. You can get Camelot 3000 in trade, but not a book that does something interesting with Atlantis? Fuck that shit.
Anyway, yeah, Amethyst was neat.