I feel that I *should* feel something about the current Legion of Super-Heroes title (titles?) being cancelled, but I find myself oddly indifferent to the news.

It's not exactly unexpected, after all, and you know they'll replace it with some version of the Legion eventually. (Most likely with the Geoff Johns rendition running around the DCU, because nothing says "exciting new direction!" like resetting everything back to 25 years ago!)

I held out for a few days this time around but, in the end, I was weak. I will have to do better at hiding the image editing software!

( Yes, you can has solicits. )

( And Batwoman finally gets a sponsorship deal! )
 

( 'No! No! There are other ways to find out! Like tests and experiments!' )

 
So, anyway. About that Kord-Slash-Inventions file? I am totally invoking Rule 34!

Do not disappoint me, internets!

ETA: You know what, never mind. I forgot that I already posted it! Yes, I know, I am so with it sometimes.

So, the DC solicits for March are underwhelming to the point of utter, well, underwhelm.

But the new Babs-as-Batgirl action figure is nice.

If the new Blue Beetle series was summed up in one word, that word would be, and I think there is no disagreement, 'awesome'.

Which I had the privilege of explaining for Girl-Wonder.Org this month!

If you're not yet reading Blue Beetle, you should reconsider this tragic life decision. If, as I hope of all humans, you *are*, g-w's got other recs that may make your soul similarly smile.

While poking around my harddrive, I found some orphaned answers from, I assume, one of the character question memes going around back when.

They were also unencumbered by notes on who gave me the questions. But, uh, Thanks! It looks like I had fun!

( Alan Scott, Amanda Waller, and Cissie King-Jones are sharing an apartment, but one of them has to pretend he or she is gay to do it, because of Barbara Gordon, their nosy downstairs neighbor... )

 

 

A long while ago, thete1 wrote a post on race. And I went "Yes! Now I am inspired to finish that essay sitting on my harddrive since people first squeed about Outsiders! It's a good thing I waited so long, as today fandom has even more examples that will add weight to my thesis!"

And, indeed! I added a few hundred words to the essay, agonizing over each one. Was it fair to bring up a movie if I was not, myself, familiar with the canon? Were my issues with the town Eureka was filmed in actually relevant? Were my commas in the right places? Was I using terminology correctly? I was, and still am, all but completely unfamiliar with the literature on racial identity and history. Was there *any* way I could post it and avoid looking like an asshole?

So, yeah, I stalled on the essay. Probably for the best all around, because honestly? I didn't *want* to write a long, thoughtful essay on why most genre media fandoms suck, and I can't imagine very many people would want to read it. It'd hardly be saying anything new, after all.

The reason I tried to write that essay at all is because I wanted to tell *this* story. However, I wanted to do so in an objective and convincing way with, like, numbers and graphs and stuff, so that it wasn't just all about me, personally.

But screw that. It's all personal, and it's all about me.

It's always all about me.



( WHY I HATE THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, by Karen, number one fan. )