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[muji]

Guess who made it to work without their car protesting! \o/! Me, bitches, that's who.

Anywho! Onto the topic: Every fandom has certain litmus tests to see what level of way-too-involved you are. In my experience, a lot of the time, my way-too-involved starts to show when I explain very minute details of a scene/prop/whatever in a way that the average enthusiast might not know about.

Example? Where the hell is Wash's steering wheel?

Anyone else have experience with this?

And oshitz, Debi, I lose -- I ended up crapping out at light eight pm yesterday, so lemme go do your thing now.

ETA: Or someone else already took care of it. >_>;

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[kali921.livejournal.com]

I know that I'm far too involved in my canon details when I spent an hour one night with a bunch of players from another game figuring out the cracky science and genetics behind Siryn's sonic powers. I'd spent three hours that afternoon researching the physics of sound. Then I spent serious time trying to figure out how two sets of vocal chords would work (Terry has two sets, unlike her father Banshee).

I also seriously contemplated making a spreadsheet charting each issue of X-Force and where they were geographically in each issue, so I could figure out the timeline of their trip across country.

I also nitpick all the time about how Hawkgirl is depicted in current DC titles, because what she's wearing on her wrists and hands varies from issue to issue. Some issues she's wearing spiked cestus and studded leather gauntlets, other times she's shown wearing her lower arms wrapped up and three disks of Nth metal on each arm. The lack of consistency drives me NUTS.

[timjr.livejournal.com]

...I'm currently trying to figure out the timeline of Herc, Amadeus, and Athena (or... Loki!Athena or Skrull!Athena, whatever she secretly is)'s roadtrip in the recent Incredible Herc issues.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

I think you can figure it out by looking at the X-Men book and the new Eternals miniseries, since they all tied in together at one point a couple of months ago. I'm still not quite sure how much time has passed between the end of World War Hulk and the relocation of the AXM to San Francisco. Some people say that it must be a few months, since the new Damage Control mini showed NYC being rebuilt and Secret Invasion shows an apparently unmolested Times Square (wasn't it trashed during WWH?), but the Damage Control mini could be taking place simultaneously with other events in the MU as depicted in other books. And I think the Iron Man books also offer some conflicting timeline information

[timjr.livejournal.com]

I also have to tie in with She-Hulk #30, too ;D

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously, he's still on the East Coast for that trailer shaking! :-)

[sdelmonte]

Consistency? In a DC comic? This is the company that can't decide what origin to use for its flagship character, so it keeps changing it as needed.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

I'll be honest: I HATE the Year One books almost without reservation, because they constantly retcon. It drives me NUTS. The Green Arrow Year One book was good as a standalone work, but I don't accept it as Ollie's origin story. I also am not sure that I like the Secret Origins of Hal that Geoff Johns is running right now.

The Huntress Year One book is very well written, but again, I don't like the retcons.

I like the way Marvel does it, with the Mythos books - they show Golden Age character origins, still preserving almost all elements of their early continuity, but do it with this cool retro art style.

Joe Casey's nine-issue Avengers retelling that came out last year was pretty good, since they juxtaposed in each issue Casey's version AND the original Golden and Silver Age issues depicting the same. The only thing that Casey really did was modernize the dialog in and throw in a few twists, as well as little character vignettes.

[sdelmonte]

I am sure that I don't really like the current GL retcon. It's not bad as a story, but it's a retcon that only serves to create the plot for Blackest Night. Which might be great, but it comes at the expense of being a retcon. Never mind that I liked the retcon of Hal's origin from the 80s.

I've always said that with Marvel, you can leave for years and come back and it will be the same origin story and the same character that you knew. I did that with FF and with Cap. You can't have that with Superman or Hal or Batman.

Alas, the Y1 books are sometimes a lot better than the present day stuff. I love the Teen Titans Year One comic and would happily buy it as an ongoing not-quite-in-continuity series.

OMG OMG ALEX you have to see this!! Ben + meta!

[kali921.livejournal.com]

The Year One books are often very well done - like I said, I loved the Green Arrow one. I just don't accept the retcon as relevant in any way to Ollie.

Also, ALEX. OMG, you have to see Paul Cornell's new FF miniseries, the first issue of which came out today. It's called Fantastic Four: A True Story and has Reed, Ben, Sue, and Johnny taking a fantastical ride through metafiction accompanied by Dante. Cornell's an exceptionally talented and imaginative writer, so...

...behold the awesome of Meta!Ben and Meta!Johnny. (http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5953886.html)

A++++!

Sue + James Joyce is my new OTP.

Re: OMG OMG ALEX you have to see this!! Ben + meta!

[sdelmonte]

I'm not really sure what to make of this. It looks like it's fun, but I'm not really into metafiction. And what's with those costumes? Is that Hitch's contribution?

Odds are I will wait for the collection (which seems to be my mantra of late - I keep getting things from the library, reading them, and being glad I didn't have to pay for them.)