Bleeding Fiction

Dammit. I was mad when I looked at the clock and realized I had missed it, but I'm even angrier now. Not, like, Bruce Banner angry, but still pretty angry!

Oh wait, it's on in an hour. I'm not angry anymore. Now I feel stupid. Not like Solomon Grundy stupid, but still pretty stupid.

Oh my God that was awesome. They even did the Shazam lightning strikes from Kingdom Come. Wow.

Yes indeed. Much ass kicking. This Cadmus arc is one of the coolest things I've ever seen DC Universe do. (Is this the first time Dr. Hamilton has been a bad guy?) It was even cooler than watching Raven give Slade a serious beat down last week. And the throwdown between Black Canary and Huntress.

So they're moving ahead with the President Lex saga. I'd heard about the print version but I've never read it. Should be a lot of good things to come.

I think the best thing about the Cadmus arc is that they've carried it over from the end of Superman: the Animated Series. Meaning it's a plot point that's been in development for something like four or five years.

I don't quite know the history of Dr. Hamilton, Ben, but do you know who that woman that woman toasting with Lex at the end of the episode was? I get the feeling I should recognize her from somewhere, at least from some earlier episode of JLU, but I've just got no clue who she is.

No matter what they do, though, it's almost got to be better than what they're doing in the comics right now, wherein they've killed off Blue Beetle, the Justice League brainwashed Batman...

Mmm... since you brought up Titans, did you see Saturday's episode, Ben? The Robin/Starfire relationship takes another hilarious step forward...

She was the power behind the front group that launched the private superhero team (made from clones), and she was the ranking officer in the Doomsday episode, when one of her underlings fired the Kryptonite nuke. I think she was in one or two others, as well. They established in one of those episodes that she essentially has a file on all of the major JLU members, including identities.

I have the grave of the fireflies .... actually its from a friend but I have not returned to him yet.

Great movie but it also reminds me of a series of anime that ran over here. remy and candy candy boy did those characters have it hard especially remi.

for those that did not see it a very quick summary.

At first alcoholic father and caring mother.

Father sells the cow of the family.

Then sells the boy to a traveling perfomer "mr. vitalis"

Boy is forced to perfomr to earn a living along with a troupe of trained animals.

And from here it gets worse........

Ah. Thanks, Erik. I missed all of the episodes that she was in. Doomsday?! Crap. Man, JLU started up again at some point before now and someone forgot to tell me. So sucky.

Gus - never heard of that anime. Sounds... fucked up.

Robin: I don't think you understand. On our planet, "girlfriend" means --

Starfire: A female with whom you have a pleasant and special association, including the sharing of enjoyable recreation, and occasionally the buying of bountiful floral arrangements.

Robin: ... Okay, maybe you do understand.

Her name is Amanda Waller. She is the head of the Cadmus Project (as far as we know), which was created (in this version, which may actually be different from the plot point at the end of Superman TAS) as a result of some higher-up (or possibly Lex, as it now seems) reading the report on the alternate dimension where Lex became president and was then incinerated by Superman to prevent him from pushing The Button. Then the other universe's leaguers became a council of fascist dictators called the Justice Lords.

Presumably, Waller, Hamilton and company had taken these actions to prevent such an occurence in this dimension. At least, that's how she explained it to Batman (whose identity she knows), and he understood her point of view. But now, it's apparent that her intentions were less than noble.

And yes, I saw Titans this past week. This has got to be the silliest romantic arc in history, but it's still well done. I just hope they get back to the main Raven arc soon.

Hhm. Thanks for the explanation, Ben. I think that mirrors some of the stuff that's gone on in the comics recently, but I haven't been following them closely, so I'm not sure.

(Derek? Mike? You guys have a habit of reading DC issues. Know anything?)

The romantic arc is pretty silly, but then so's pretty much the entire show. Really, I'm just glad they're including it at all, given how generally young the show's aimed. I mean, the Titans' three big plot arcs are Slade (including Terra and Jericho, who I hope never, ever shows up), Raven and the Robin/Starfire romance. We got the first one (well, half of it; we still don't know why Slade was after the Titans) and we're getting the second now. It's cool that they sneak the third in under the radar.

But you know me, I'm a sucker for romance. My favorite episode of Titans before this one was the Killer Moth/Prom Date episode...

I view the Robin/Starfire arc, as presented in this younger-set version, as a welcome distraction from the heavier plots.

Now, in the original comic, Nightwing and Starfire were taking their wedding vows when Trigon decided to make his move and possess Raven, prompting her to go super evil and kill everyone. What a party pooper. My guess is that's not where this series is headed.

BTW, does anybody out there watch Paranoia Agent on Adult Swim? And if so, could you explain it to me? It looks cool but it makes my brain hurt.

Yah, probably no Robin/Starfire vows for Trigon to interrupt. But, on the plus side, no stupid Wildebeests (or Jericho) either. Also no Donna Troy.

Incidentally, Eric Burns at Websnark wrote a (longish) thing about Clash. It's here. It's an interesting read, but I don't agree with the extremity of his conclusion. Of course his conclusion is basically "damn young turks, making comics all not for kids anymore and unable to be bought in drugstores."

I mean, I share in the dude's hatred of Identity Crisis, and I agree that comics have their problems with the adult/child divide and deciding who to appeal to, but... yeesh.

Well, I don't care what Eric Burns thinks. I like both versions, this one and Kingdom Come.