Donomark

Happy B-Day!

Moffat on Clara and her ego: https://www.nerdist.com/2014/12/steven-moffat-on-clara-becoming-the-doctor-in-series-8/

Very cool. Is there one like this out there?

In terms of the quoted usage of racial slurs, I'll say that when I first heard that in the Swing Kids discussion I thought to myself "Did he really just say that?". I had to remind myself that he was quoting a line from the movie. Whenever a white person throws out that word I (and most black ppl I know) have an immediately bad reaction to it, but I'm not one to ignore context when discussing things like that. I'm of the opinion that you can say virtually anything, you just have to mean something when you say it. I appreciated Pandy's hesitation of it.

Well I thought this was the best X-Mas episode to date. It was a legit mystery that brought with it some character stuff that kept me engaged. I really really enjoyed it.

¡Feliz Navidad!

My brother had never seen A Christmas Story before, so thankfully TNT was there to help him out and we watched that, followed by 15 minutes of the sequel which was on the CMT channel for some reason before he turned the TV off in disgust.

Yeah, in the collection I read it has the original outline where Batman's possessed by Parallax, is confronted by Nightwing, Jim Gordon, Robin and the League, shoots Robin with a gun and is talked down by Hal. That would have been sooooo over-the-top, and the story, while very entertaining, is fan-fic-ish enough as it is.

Just finished Green Lantern: Rebirth from start to end for the first time. It's kind of hilarious how clearly anti-Batman Johns comes off in that book. Like, he's the Roger Klotz to Hal's Doug Funnie. I've never read a comic so blatantly against a character.

Would the whole "This guy Spock here is clearly Chinese" routine be a form of casual racism? Not sure myself...

I'm not crazy about the mask, but it's a step in the right direction. Like this and Batgirl have taken cues from the animated Static costumes where regular clothes found around the house could pass as costumes, which is a concept I've always liked.

Horrible news. One of the best artists of the last 30 years and one of the greatest Batman co-creators of all time. Hope he gets better soon.

I'd go for Ken Watanabe personally.Freeman would be LULZ inducing. Also nominating Daniel Dae Kim for Wong.

His whole overwrought "PETER PARKER GETS FIRED!!!" storyline made me drop ASM for the third time after OMD, and his Black Cat/Daredevil crossover after Spider-Island was utterly deplorable. I'm not a fan of bitching out Spider-Man to make other characters look good, especially if those characters are supposed to be his friends.

By hiring a 52 year old man to write teenagers. MARK WAID CAN WRITE WHATEVER HE WANTS Except Spider-Man, as he proved during BND and after Spider Island.

I remember that, which made me surprised when this news came out. But I'm excited now, it keeps the Craig continuity solid.

That's it. Fuck EVERYTHING THAT'S NOT THIS SHOW. Cuz this show is awesome

I hope to hear you guys get into the back story of that episode on the next Edge of Forever as I'm aware it has a back story (but thus far haven't gotten around to reading about it), but I've seen that comic at my shop and the cover art at least is gorgeous.

Maybe since they'll have the original Flash show exist in a different universe, and Hamill's Trickster has crossed over.

I'm with you on that. I torrented the issue, 10 bucks is outrageous. I've been filling the holes in my Robin collection. I've nearly everything Chuck Dixon wrote for Tim Drake (his miniseries and nearly every one of his first 100 issues), so I'm finally going after the post-Dixon stuff...when it began to suck. The "To Kill a Bird" story by Willingham (which I never knew was collected) picks up soon after Tim and Batgirl move to Bludhaven after War Games and Identity Crisis. The stories are decent, but I cannot get into Willingham's voice for Tim. He writes him like Spider-Man or Nightwing, making way more jokes at his enemies expense and in his head than I've ever seen the character do. I get the feeling that Willingham just wrote his idea of a teen sidekick, and wasn't familiar with the inquisitive, more soft-spoken personality that Tim's had ever since his title started. It's seriously jarring. The OYL Adam Beechen run is way better. It fiercely deals with Bruce adopting Tim as the forefront of the character's status quo change. Beechen writes Tim a lot more recognizably in character than Wilingham did, and even makes him seem appropriately older. He's about the same age as Dick was in those old Batman Family comics/Jose Luiz Garcia Lopez images from the Bronze Age, and it feels right. Batman's relationship with Tim in this era is almost surprisingly paternal, given that their partnership up to that point was hardly as close as either Dick or Jason's for the simple fact that Tim didn't live with him. It's logical though given how much crap this character had gone through in the past couple of years with almost everyone important to him dying. It's way better than I remember it being at the time it came out. The turd in its punchbowl is the notorious treatment of Cassandra Cain, which I understand Beechen was under orders to do by Didio. It's still appalling bullshit, and every time it's brought up it throws the stories off wildly. I can't bring myself to own the first Beechen Robin trade because of how Cass is brought back, and she wouldn't be written anywhere close to in character until she became Black Bat around 2010. It's really unfortunate, because Beechen's handling of Tim is so immensely good. He's not uber-serious like Geoff Johns wrote him in Teen Titans, but he's not a dime-a-dozen sidekick like Wilingham sort of wrote him for a few years. I'm loving these issues.

I'm with you on that, I think Crisis on Two Earths is amazing. It's basically a really well done Justice League episode, which is no small praise. I loved the fight scenes, it had interesting subplots and the character of Owlman alone was just amazing. This is when the DC DTVs got good for me, after being fairly blah for a while after New Frontier and Wonder Woman. Saw Viva Las Vegas the other night after work. Thought Ann Margret completely stole the show. She was funny, gorgeous, and as shown in the film could dance way better than Elvis.

Having already mentioned that Aladdin is my favorite Disney film...I'll just say it again and nominate that one.