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Well, not that I know of.
Has anybody else ever had that thing where it's like, four AM, and then you suddenly notice that you're awake, and you can't tell how long you've been awake for?
that's how my naps go, except with more nightmares and headaches
all that scares me is the thought that i might not have slept at all and I just kinda laid there thinking I was asleep but I was really awake
which would explain my current tiredness
Dude. Why didn't you say you were in my neck of the woods?
"I don't hate you."
"I don't hate you too."
-kiss-
SWOOOOOOOOON SO ROMANTIC
avatar?
Picked up a Nile album, and my most prevalent thought at the moment is: did Karl Sanders really put a smiley emoticon in the liner notes?
I love Azula.
She's this evil hyper-competent military supergenius badass, but she's also pretty much completely socially retarded.
terrifying and adorable at the same time
Her lack of social acumen proves part of her slow descent into madness.
That, combined with her mommy issues...
So I just read both "The Last Stand of Johnny Storm" and "The Death of Captain America" and I feel like discussing superhero deaths with you for a minute.
You see, one of the most infamous aspects of the superhero genre is that in a universe of gods, time travel and cosmic anthropomorphications of concepts such as Death or Destiny, death is simply not the end of all things. People die and revive constantly in the Marvel and DC Universes, because of...well, multiple reasons. For example, Green Arrow died back in the 90s in order to open up for a new hero who was supposedly more in touch with the 90s sensibilities. Of course, Connor Hawke proved to not be as popular as his father, Oliver Queen was and he was revived. To contrast this, Hal Jordan, the first Silver Age Green Lantern died after destroying the Corps leaving only one Guardian of the Universe and one ring, which was taken by Kyle Rayner, who people actually took a liking too. Notice that it took around ten years for Hal Jordan to resurrect considering how well liked Kyle was and it took Geoff Johns to pitch one hell of a story and concept to DC, which ended up making Hal Jordan and the Corps much more relvant to the DCU and arguably for a couple of months even upsetting the standard Batman/Superman flagship titles' sales.
But I digress. My point is that superhero deaths are often if not always reverted, provided the character was well liked in the first place. So it's kinda interesting that these two stories tackled the death of two of the most iconic characters Marvel has produced and the contrast between each one of them is interesting.
You see, Johnny Storm's death was never implied by Hickman to be permanent, much like, say, Batman's death way back in Final Crisis. It was meant simply as a catalyst of the plot Hickman's concerned with, which is specifically the future of the Fantastic Four as explorers and hopefully researches who will, theoretically, solve all of the problems mankind and the superhero community suffer as well as Reed's own very personal conundrum in terms of "solving everything" and its cost (Which is, well, "everything")
In comparison to Steve Rogers's death which is, while a catalyst to Bucky's plot and his ascension as Captain America, mostly shock value for the sake of shock value as well as Millar's way of making certain the there won't be any anti-reg plots post Civil War. It cheapens the character and weakens his value, regardless of how sweet are the mourning scenes by Iron Man and Thor, who get to give both some really magnificent speeches (Admittedly, the second one should be the screen caps from the actual comic itself but I can't seem to find it and I read that quite a while ago) One of the most damning aspects is that the editors said that Steve Rogers wouldn't be resurrected. The fact that there's an story called Captain America: Reborn should speak volumes, really.
The thing is, I'm not against this. I don't believe that death should be something eliminated entirely from comic books as so many would say, simply because death is one, if not the most universal topic. Everyone fears or accepts death, some even welcome and rush to it. But the fact is, that death is a topic everybody knows about and that resonates the most with people. What I'm against is the pretension that someone like Steve Rogers or Clark Fucking Kent is not returning when their names and alter-egos tend to cause sales almost singlehandedly.
That is not to say that "The Death of Superman" or "Death of the Dream" are not great stories, because they are (Well, Death of Superman's really just a good piece of visual storytelling, really) but that editorial/publicitary and handling was rather poor. And herein lies a big issue and it's the way comic editorials handle their audience through condescension and appereances. To be honest, as much as the writing is sweet, it's really annoying to have an editor tell me what I like or what I don't like, as well as dictaminating their whole universe around this. And I'm not talking about "statistics" or what scores well with most people here, since personally that doesn't bother me. But when an editor forces something like a character death for the sake of shocking me and then pretends that this is what people want, when even their own mailboxes contradict them as well as the dropped sales, both in the present and the future, then I must wonder how high are they
Obviously, you needed to know all this
reading "Mils College Anime Club"
This is worse than some of The Swing's shit.
Juan: To be fair, Hal wasn't dead at the time, just being an evil, angry god of greenness.
Murr, I'd say it still counts if only because with him, the other Green Lanterns die. and I'd also argue that sometimes, even certain incarnations of a character (Changed names in particular come to mind) also count as "shocking alterations" designed to shock and awe the reader into reading.
and then juan was the alex
I only did it once for I secretly am preparing a Malkavian summoning ritual.
Hey, everyone. Remember how I asked everyone to sign that petition for gay marriage in Australia a while back? Well...
Just yesterday, New South Wales- the state I live in- has called on the federal government to allow gay marriage within Australia.
Thanks for the support, guys.
Another cube draft sealed, this time I played what looks like a U/G/W EDH Edric prototype, with a bunch of evasive creatures with handy enter-the-battlefield abilities, things that put lots of tokens in play, Edric himself, Tandem Lookout and Beastmaster's Ascension. Went 2-1, though we stopped it midway so I'll play another match some other day.
And Pristine Angel is love.
Has anyone here played Explodemon?
If you have, is it worth the $3.99 price tag?
Those are some games.
Does a Seto Kaiba impression:
"I have the weirdest boner right now"
>That is not to say that "The Death of Superman" or "Death of the Dream" are not great stories,
>"The Death of Superman"
> great stories
Death of Superman was a story where Doomsday and Superman punch each other until they both die.
I agree with the rest. It's the nature of the beast that goes all the way back to Sherlock Holmes. I mean there's a reason a comic ending with Hellboy dying said 'Next: Hellboy in hell'. The strength of these characters is their literal and metaphorical immortality.
Only one I don't have. What's it like?