When I received my photo for my eventual picfor1000 story, "Flyby", I was excited. I was hoping for a period picture, so I was relieved to get one Warwick Farm races in Australia in 1934, showcasing two women. I loved the idea of writing a female friendship story from the Golden Age of comics, except most heroines didn't start showing up until after WWII ( Read more... )

Title: Flyby
Fandom: Obscure Golden Age Quality Comics
Rating: G
Characters: Sandra Knight (Phantom Lady), Dianne Grayton (Spider Widow)
Disclaimer: Originally owned by Quality Comics, but they're now part of DC. No infringement intended.
Summary: October 26, 1933. Chicago. The Graf Zeppelin stops in for a short visit. Two mystery women contemplate ( Read more... )

Sorry, Bells are Ringing moment there. *grins*

picfor1000 assignments are up. I appear to have gotten my fondest wish for a period picture, 1930s even. From digging into the original archive, it's from the Warwick Farm races in Australia in 1934, Golden Age of Hollywood and year of screwball comedies. Haven't decided if I'll go fandom or original on this ( Read more... )

I listened to the Word Balloon podcast's interview with Brian Azzarello on the upcoming "First Wave" mini series. I have to admit I wasn't terribly impressed with Azzarrello. A lot of the changes don't feel very organic for me. But as he says at one point "This is a world with no super powers and no magic and I'm god." And apparently DC and other ( Read more... )

Title: Fitting In
Author: wabbitseason
Fandom: Marvel Comicsverse (616)
Spoilers: Marvels Project #1-3 mostly
Characters: Jim Hammond/Human Torch
Rating: G
Summary: All the Human Torch wanted to do was fit in.
Word Count: 282
Author's Note: mini_nanowrimo story. Another Golden Age blond checking in. You'd think I have a type or something.

( Fitting In; Human Torch; 282 words )

I already posted this on bangalittle. I'm opening it up here because I have more comics fans on my friends list who might have suggestions.

Two weeks before rough draft is due for thelittlebang and there is no story in sight. I really don't want to give up without a fight, but it's looking dire. I've made up ground in Nano, but that was never going to be seen by anyone ( Read more... )

Writing is not faring so well these days. Every time I think I'm finding momentum, I sputter. I'm thinking about writing something for batfic_contest if the muse doesn't take one look at Gotham and disappear in the other direction. My muses have nothing if not a well defined sense of self-preservation ( Read more... )

To read later:

Interview with Michael Jelenic: screenwriter for the Wonder Woman animated film. His lines about toys made me look up at my little row of three superheroine action figures and think of the ones I've passed up because they didn't look quite right. Girls might buy girl toys if they were designed differently. Not for us, the chorus ( Read more... )

Huh. I remember when Project Superpowers was announced, I griped about there only being the one female character included, Masquerade, a retooled version of Nedor's Miss Masque. Well, Masquerade is getting her own four issue mini-series from Dynamite. I'll be curious to see the interior artwork. As I recall, I tried reading the two Golden Age ( Read more... )

( Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman )