So a while back I read this Clark/Bruce fic where the Legion tells Clark he's fated to be with Batman. There's this museum exhibit which features the 'great romance' of Superman and Batman, including a famous painting of Clark embracing a blond, blue-eyed man. Which sends Clark into a tizzy, since he's falling in love with Bruce, who is most ( Read more... )

So I am new in the fandom though I have loved Batman comics for a very long time. I have really adored reading some of the slash fics in this fandom but I wanted to know how people in this community would believe the "civilians" and "league members" in the DC universe's to react to these two super heroes coming out (Whether it be in a relationship ( Read more... )

Robot 6, a blog on the CBR News site, has posted an interesting exchange between Ira Rubenstein, executive vice president of Marvel’s Global Digital Media Group, Dave Roman, cartoonist and associate editor of Nickelodeon Magazine, and Stuart Levy, chief executive officer of Tokyopop about fanfiction and other topics:

Roman: Most people I know and ( Read more... )

Yes, I referred to myself in the third person... It is almost time for me to collect links again but my eyes can take so much of the screen I would appreciate that people who participated in the World's Finest Awards 2006 and SuperBat Secret Santa could please tell me where the links in your journals or websites that you have those pieces of ( Read more... )

Talking Meta: Batman part 2

A brief recap:
In part 1, I listed 5 of what I consider to be the top 10 things that are sticky about Bruce Wayne. They were:
1. His parents were killed when he was young.
2. He is stinking, filthy, rich.
3. He is the World's Greatest Detective
4. He is a great fighter.
5. He suffers at interpersonal skills.

So, here we ( Read more... )

Talking Meta:  Batman

The first time I did a Talking Meta post, I talked about what I called "sticky" things in canon and fanon.  It gets somewhat more difficult when we start talking about what is sticky about a character.  Especially a character with as much history and background as the Dark Knight.

I want to sort of start by saying that "sticky ( Read more... )

Examining Genre

Well, I was intending to talk about Batman this week--what is "sticky" to the characterization of Batman for comic book readers/television viewers/movie viewers/etc.  But with the World's Finest Awards coming up, a different topic presented itself--in a more pressing fashion.  What exactly are the genres that we talk about in fanfic ( Read more... )