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Month: July 2012

  • July 4th, 2012 3:21pm

    vsxnightwing:

    deconstructingdamian:

    Let’s get one thing straight—Dick and Damian never slapped Jason around. The only time they fought Jason Todd, it was early on in Battle for the Cowl (the beginning of Issue 2), and both Damian and Dick got their asses handed to them. Hell, it ended with Damian shot and needing 80-someodd stitches. The time Dick actually beats Jason at the end, the only contribution Damian makes is saving Dick from some sort of explosion. (Also, I hate you Grant Morrison for making me look through Battle for the Cowl again to double-check. A part of my soul dies whenever I look at it). This makes me doubt that Morrison actually read Battle for the Cowl, and you know what? I don’t blame him.

    Also, Jason doesn’t see Damian as a threat at all. Just like Damian, Jason has this bad habit of underestimating everyone in this arc. Then again, after Damian’s piss poor performance in Battle for the Cowl, I’d underestimate him too.

    Can you tell I hate Battle for the Cowl yet?

    Hey, don’t talk smack about Battle for The Cowl, it was what got me into comics! … And Damian was insanely out of character. As was Jason. BUT STILL. NOSTALGIA.

    Everything about Battle for The Cowl was terrible. It was kind of a cluster-fuck of badness. 

  • July 3rd, 2012 4:16pm

    eventuallythebirdsmustland:

    An ongoing list of my favourite comic characters
    → Alfred Pennworth | Batman’s Batman | DC

    Alfred is probably hands down my absolute favourite character in any comic ever, so I figured that it was only fitting to start with him. On the surface he doesn’t seem like much. He’s just Bruce Wayne’s butler after all. He is nothing remarkable. But he is, he really is.

    He may not be out there on a nightly basis fighting crime in Gotham City, but he is just as important as any of the Bats and Birds. If anything is is more important than them. He is the glue that holds the Batfamily together. He is the one that pick them up and puts the pieces back together when they break. He’s the one that patches them up when they are hurt. He is the one that acts as a bridge between them when their differences get too much.

    Bruce isn’t an easy person to get to know after all. He isn’t easy to get close to. Alfred is the one that bridges that gap, that helps the others see Bruce as he really is. He helps them see that Bruce loves them and he helps Bruce see that his ‘children’ love him too. He keeps them all from losing themselves behind their respective cowls or the the Mission.

    He makes them be human, makes them acknowledge both the frailties and strengths that come from just being human, of just being for a moment.

    That’s what I love about him. In a house of such strong personalities and of people with such consuming and defining goals and drives, he is just there. He’s not the loudest, he’s not obtrusive, he just is. In the end, he is stronger than them all, he is the best of them all and he makes them see that good in themselves.

    He is a father, a grandfather, a friend, a mentor, a medic, a teacher, a butler, an actor, a soldier and so many other things all at once. But when it all comes down to it, he is just Alfred and he is exactly what the Batfamily need to make them better, to keep them together and to keep them going.

  • July 3rd, 2012 4:14pm

    Natural storytellers are still around, and a few of them are very rich. Some are on the best-seller list; more are in television and film. But it’s probably that your impulse to write has little to do with the desire or skill to work out a plot. On the contrary, you want to write because you are sensitive. You have something to say that does not answer the question, what happened next? You share with most – and the best – twentieth-century fiction writers a sense of the injustice, the absurdity, and the beauty of the world; and you want to register your protest, your laughter, and your affirmation.

    — Janet Burroway – Writing Fiction; A guide to narrative craft