Nov. 8th, 2006

lurkerwithout: (Mal with gun)
Oh yeah...

*Does a little dance. Not a really gloaty one. More of a soft shoe slide kind of thing. Very little rump shaking is involved.*

I'm a little disapointed that Kyl appears to have kept his seat. At least AZ was one of the few states to reject an "protect marriage" amendment this time around...
lurkerwithout: (Reading cat)
Only got 1 pull this week so I grabbed the 2nd Leave it to Chance trade and the 1st Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. trade. Even, if like me, you've grown tired of Marvel books you should grab this trade. I mean its Warren Ellis writing about b-list heroes doing violent things. Plus who doesn't want a book that includes the line: Fin Fang Foom put you in his pants. C'mon!

Also my copy of The Tick vs. Season 1 arrived today from Amazon. Dut dwee dut dwee dow. Dut dwee dut dwee dow. Dut dwee dut dwee dut dwee DOW!

As to my pull list, I got the newest Fables. Here the Adversary's favorite son explains why the plan to invade the Mundy world won't work, and would in fact result in the Mundy's invading the Empire...
lurkerwithout: (Portrait)
4. Bounty hunting
5. Musicians
9. Comics & Catholics
10. Fist fighting
13. The power of love
20. Aliens

Er...What?

Nov. 8th, 2006 06:41 pm
lurkerwithout: (FLCL wtf? mdoogie creator)
So I've got the tv on in the background waiting for Bones to start. So I'm half-listening to Geraldo Rivera. And he's now doing a segment on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). And he lets loose with this line:

I can't count the number of times I've put my ear near the face of my sleeping baby to see if he or she is still breathing.

He or She? The sentance states that you're listening to YOUR OWN child. How do you not know its gender?
lurkerwithout: (Dynomite Cat)
Anyone know where I can find a free version of Microsoft Word? My computer's version of Microsoft Office was only good for 3 months and I'm not spending 150 dollars so I can type things up with a spell-checker...
lurkerwithout: (Lil' dream)
And this final one is for [profile] springrayn and her interest, Disney:

Way, way back in the nineties, during my college years, I had planned doing a fiction called Darkside Dizney. Stories inspired by the Disney afternoon cartoons DuckTales, TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck. I had only finished one before getting distracted and drawn into the super-hero fiction mailing list Superguy.

That story, “Dark Rebirth”, was what I had originally planned on rewriting as my final piece for the inspiration meme. It involved the death of Darkwing Duck, killed by his nemesis Nega-duck. Who would in turn be killed by Darkwing's adopted daughter Goslyn in her role as Quiverwing Quack. But I decided instead to do this essay, explaining why I wasn't going to do the rewrite. We'll get to why in just a moment.

The original story was meant as the prelude for my Darkside Dizney 'verse. One set several years in the future from the Disney cartoons. Twenty-something Goslyn would be a grim avenger-of-the-night type, Honker would have become the new GizmoDuck and Launchpad would have been captured by F.O.W.L and brainwashed into becoming the Black Canard, leader of the reborn Sky-Pirates.

And I had plans for updating the rest of the cast of characters from DuckTales, Darkwing Duck and TaleSpin (which I had decided took place four or five decades before the other shows). Uncle Scrooge would have passed on, his company being run by Donald. The nephews and Webby would be Duck'Tagnan and the Three Mousekateers (yes ducks dressed as mice dressed as musketeers). A grandson of Sher Khan running Khan Enterprises. And so on.

But part of what I wanted to do originally with the series was make a more mature and “adult” revamp. A grimmer, and thus cooler, version of three of my favorite kids shows. And nowadays I'm simply fed up with dark, hard-core stories and grim and extreme revamps of characters. When comic shelves are flooded with stories where cloned thunder gods murder black super-heroes or where ex-wives kill the family of their friends in the stupidest reconciliation attempt ever, I don't have any desire to add anything to that. I don't even enjoy thinking that the mess DC and Marvel have made of their universes is something I once would have enjoyed. Which might explain why they sell so well. There are still plenty of comics fans who want to see Nega-duck die slowly after taking a broad-head arrow to the lung. I'm just not one of them anymore.

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