Deathly Ill and Always Busy

tedkordisanasshole:

Aw yeah Apollo doesn’t care for Midnighter also he’s not his type did’ja know

Yeah Midnighter doesn’t care as well I mean Apolo’s only a dumb blond anyway

Aw yiss responsible daddies

the actual first gay wedding 

And an actual old married couple aww

obligatory boner jokes

Also obligatory “Midnighter hates children” panel

Oh and remember how he wanted to kill Jenny Q in Stormwatch

yeah

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Midnighter and Apollo flyin’

Midnighter and Apollo posts on my dash today, makes me happy

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notthiscrap:

Well I don’t think this could have taken any longer HAHA

For Helen ;;u;;

I like being reminded every so often of how much I adore these two.

And writing a post on the gratuitous and painful exposition that masquerades as a comic book, and why Stormwatch makes me cry.

I just want the proof all in one place, and I want to be the one to do it.

Thoughts?

comicsalliance:

UPDATED: DC Shakeup: Gail Simone Off ‘Firestorm,’ Tom DeFalco on ‘Legion Lost’, Cornell Off ‘Stormwatch’
 

By Andy Khouri

DC Comics confirmed this week some personnel changes for two of its New 52 superhero titles. Specifically, Gail Simone will no longer be Ethan Van Sciver’s co-writer of The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men following February’s issue #6. She will be replaced on the title by Joe Harris of Oni’s Ghost Projekt (in development as a series for SyFy), who will co-write the title with Van Sciver.

Legion Lost will say goodbye to series writer Fabian Nicieza with issue #6, also on sale in February. Nicieza will be replaced by Tom DeFalco, who of course was once the editor and chief of Marvel Comics. Pete Woods will continue to draw the title.

DC confirmed via a post to The Source that Batman: The Dark Knight and DC Universe Presents Deadman writer Paul Jenkins will pen a two-issue story for Stormwatch in issues #7-#9. Regular Stormwatch writer Paul Cornell tweeted that he will indeed leave the title, with February’s issue #6 being his last. Cornell will remain on Demon Knights and his Vertigo series Saucer Country. No word yet on who will follow Jenkins after his short run.

Read more on this at ComicsAlliance.

I haven’t read issue #4 of Stormwatch yet… Too disappointed by the last three issues, I can’t see this next one being better. Which is why I’m sad to say that I’m happy that Cornell is leaving the title. The guy seems decent, and maybe his other stuff is better, but Stormwatch was really not working for him. The writing was honestly embarrassing. I wish him well on his other titles.

Now, that leaves me kind of worried and Midnighter and Apollo. I mean, they’re the reason I’m reading Stormwatch, no doubt. Not them as a couple— just them. But they are a couple…something Cornell said he was committed to developing. So what about whoever else comes on? Are they gonna continue on in that vein? And they gonna reinstate their relationship? Are they gonna do it better than Cornell was doing it? I’m just worried that they’re gonna go the way of the most recent Midnighter series…Ignoring the fact that he’s a committed and loving partner in addition to the homicidal tendencies.

My faith was shaken with Cornell, but luckily I’m stupid hopedful. Maybe this will improve?

Well. Most of them are just new to me, but bear with me.

This week’s comics! I felt strongly about them, so I’m going to write about them.
This week, Animal Man and Stormwatch (both issue #3) came out.

I don’t think I can emphasize enough how beautiful animal man is. I love the thing, scratchy lineart— it’s malleable, which helps the distortion of environments and characters used frequently in the comic. It’s grotesque for sure, but a gorgeous grotesque, if that makes sense. The hunters were especially lovely in their distortions, as they lose their human forms to become flailing masses of intestines.

And Buddy himself, as he’s struggling to gain a stable, corporeal form in The Red, produces some of the most interesting transformations I’ve seen.

I also love the pages in The Red, with their abstract paneling (or lack of), as seen above. The composition is wonderful, produces the right tone, and maintains a comprehensible flow. It gives the illusion that the characters are everywhere and nowhere at once; in a kind of spiritual/Nirvana-esque place, which seems to be what The Red represents to its avatars. Overall, it’s just a beautiful, well put-together book. The story is good too, although personally, it’s not something I’d usually pick up by reading the summary alone. I’m usually not a fan of abstract “fate” storylines, but the context (and the art) keeps me well interested.

I never read anything with Animal Man before the new 52, so I’m curious about the ways they’re screwing with his origin. The style of this new comic is very “alternative” and seemingly experimental, which I doubt was the tone of Animal Man’s previous books. (The idea of the hero seems pretty standard— after all, he basically has Mari’s Vixen’s powers. I can’t imagine anything else he’s in as being anything better than “standard super hero.” Shh, don’t break the illusion for me. I like the idea of a shift from the mainstream to something absolutely crazy like this.)

So yeah, Animal Man continues to delight me.
But I also buy Stormwatch, because The Authority has a special place in my heart, and Stormwatch basically absorbed them.

Oh man. I wasn’t particularly impressed with this latest incarnation, but I wasn’t really disappointed either. But this last issue…This last issue was a real stinker. I had some faith in you, Cornell. How could you do this to me?

The writing reads as incredibly lazy; primarily because it was nothing but cheap exposition. I read recently that good dialog is “stuff you can imagine people actually saying out loud.” Which is sort of no-brainer advice, admittedly. But my god— every word out of these characters mouths was an unnecessary explanation for everything they were doing, and how they’re doing it. Christ! Comics is a visual method of story-telling! And even literature knows to “show, not tell.”

And even though there are probably a lot of people unfamiliar with Apollo’s, or Jenny’s, or Jack’s (etc.) powers, they don’t need to be explained repeatedly. I mean, the original exposition wasn’t amazing either, but I think by the third time Jenny’s powers were explained was where I was getting outright frustrated. It’s unnecessary. I’ll put it this way: What’s her name, Media Girl, I didn’t know her powers before the first issue. Then she explained them with the most hollow dialog imaginable, and while it was clunky exposition, at least I knew. I didn’t need her to explain them again in this issue. Holy BALLS, man.

The dialog was the absolute worst. It was sad how much personality it sacrificed for the forced explanations of everything. It read like Cornell had absolutely no faith in his artist or readers at all. This issue was exceedingly disappointing, made worse by the fact that it was populated by my favorite characters.

Not to mention Midnighter’s stupid chin-spike was as distracting and embarrassing as the last two issues. (The more I see it, the more I cannot believe that somebody thought it was a good idea.) God, his whole uniform is just awful.

And apparently Apollo’s name is Andrew?? Look, Apollo is a real name. You didn’t need to call him Andrew! I understand his origin is different from The Authority— no Bendix memory wipes— but there was no reason to give him the name Andrew. He’s Apollo. Plain and simple. He doesn’t even need a code name because he operates as a small-scale crime fighter in alleyways and the such. The impression we were given in the first issue is that he doesn’t want to be associated with superheroes! So where’d this stupid Andrew come from?

I can see it on Midnighter— it’s not like his code name could be mistaken for something anybody’d actually name a baby. (Although I know somebody who knows a “Newborn,” I kid you not. Who would do that to a child?) So why would they do this to my Apollo WHY.

Alleviating this pain, my Pulse trades arrived in the mail. Say what you will, it’s got a ton of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage in it, so I’m extremely satisfied. I especially liked it when Luke got on his “DON’T FUCK WITH MY FAMILY” face and punched Norman Osborne (yessssss). I love you, Luke Cage. And I love Jessica Jones. And I love baby Danielle, even if you can barely see Jess’ pregnancy at this point. And I love them all together so much.

Oh, and when she thought he’d given her a miscarriage and she flipped the fuck out on Norman Osborne? That. That was awesome. Baby, you do what Spiderman doesn’t have the guts to.

(I’ve only read the first one so far, but I was happy with it. Aaaah, I need all of New Avengers after this, and one day I’ll buy all of Alias, and I can just have a Jessica Jones library.)

I also got a package from my mom, which surprisingly included Batwoman: Elegy! I was happy that she thought to send it, but a little annoyed that she’d opened the package that I’d accidentally sent home. My mother’s really nosy… (I say this with confidence, my friends. This is not the nosiest thing she’d done by far. Just another incident in a sequence of events.)

So that was my day with comics (comics SO MANY NEW COMICS).

shutupshutup:

I just realised what I need in my life like air

Think about it. KILLING MACHINE. BLACK LEATHER. AWESOME ADOPTIVE DAD. Fassbender even looks a bit like Christian Bale sometimes iykwim~

Who could be Apollo though??

Holy crap so accurate. Not to mention actor I adore playing character I adore? Hnngh.

(Source: significant-bullet)

thenakedlibrarianontheroof:

I’ll stop reblogging the Authority.

Eventually.

(Takes place in “Authority: the Lost Year, Book One”, right after the team rescues Apollo from an alternate-universe’s Doctor. Have I mentioned I adore this book? So much goes down in it!) I love Apollo and Jenny so much on this page, and especially all three of them in the last panel. Most adorable superfamily. And it kinda redeemed teenage-Jenny for me. Don’ nobody kidnap her dadday.

I need need need this. I get kinda prickly about Jenny Q, so I want to read something that will make me like her. And have a family environment too. (I have a lot of conflicting feelings about Midnighter’s independent series…)
Plus just…The Authority. And Apollo and Midnighter. I’m really looking forward to Stormwatch this week unf 

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Paul Cornell (via fyeahlilbitoeverything)

Well this is certainly more comforting than what Didio said.
….Damn Didio. 

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….. :|
You’re still my favorite, Midnighter.