damos and I sprang for the deluxe version of Superman/Batman:  Public Enemies, which has a variety of little extras on it, and I thought I'd include some comments on them.  One is a little mini-documentary discussing Superman and Batman and their friendship, one is a discussion over dinner with Bruce Timm, Andrea Romano, and Kevin Conroy, and one is a ( Read more... )

Part 3 will have to wait for a little bit because I'm going to be on the road and Internet-light (not entirely without access, thank goodness) again, though not for as long as before...

(  Top Five Times You Wish Comics Canon Had Gone Differently )

My answers got pretty scan-heavy (yummy, yummy scannable questions!), so I'm breaking it up into at least two parts--though I'm having fun with it, so feel free to shoot me some more, lol.

( Top Five Awesome Things in the Batcave )

Thought I'd mention I've got a little writing process essay up at superhero_muses , talking about the steps of writing "The Missing Moon."  I wanted to analyze the process with something short (since the explanation often takes more words than the fic), and something recent, so I went with that.  It was an interesting exercise in part because I'd never looked ( Read more... )

If you haven't run into what has become known as RaceFail09, a brief summary: Elizabeth Bear had a reader complain about race depictions in one of her books. Bear responded reasonably at first (she rescinded that later), but her friends and fans did not, and things became ugly. The conversation arched across the SF/F communities and beyond, ( Read more... )

I'd been kind of avoiding this meme because...well, once I get talking meta there's really, really no stopping me. I'm an academic, it goes with the territory. But I commented on anthraciteowl's wonderful analysis of why she loves Tim Drake and she gave me five things and...I could no longer resist.

If anyone hasn't done this meme, or would like to do it again ( Read more... )

1) Pick up to 15 pairings you like
2) Describe them in up to 15 words
3) Get your friends to guess

(As a hint:  5 are DC, 4 are Trek, 6 are other fandoms;  11 are m/m, 3 are m/f, one is f/f).

1.  An endless game, chasing and catching and escaping again.  The chasing is the best part. (bradygirl_12 and snake_easing  guessed Bruce/Selina)
2.  Bitter enemies, fated slayers.  A ( Read more... )