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The thing today that brought me the most glee was this interview with Fabian Nicieza about taking over Red Robin. I loved Nicieza's runs on Nightwing and Robin and the single issues he's written, and I have absolutely adored Chris Yost's run on Red Robin. It has easily been my favorite comic this year, and I have fretted over the changing of the guard.

I officially stop fretting now. I love everything in that interview and am very happy. Also, THERE WILL BE MORE TAM. YAY! I had worried she would be dismissed with a new writer and I'm glad she won't be. In reaction to the article, there may have been a somewhat cracky discussion with Katt that she might have posted to her LJ but I can neither confirm nor deny this.

And I haven't done one of these things in AGES, so--why not?

Name any story I've written, and any character in them, canon or OC. I'll tell you three things about that character which I didn't put in the story.

First, THANK YOU for all the birthday wishes, everyone! I had a very nice birthday--had presents and cake and saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which I really enjoyed. And my brother's new(ish) girlfriend gave him a birthday card to give me, which was nice of her. And my phone call with my aunt was only a little traumatizing!

AND ADVENTURE COMICS CAME OUT. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. I also am one of exactly... two people who didn't hate Red Robin. (I liked it, I don't know. I also don't feel like arguing about it, as an FYI. :P Comics are my fun stress relief thing.) I HAVE A PULL AND A LONG BOX NOW. And about two extra copies of Adventure Comics for strategic covering the box purposes. ;) As it is gorgeous.

I really don't have anything else to say except maybe HI KATE!! And THANK YOU EVERYONE!! ♥


And in other news... My mother is on vacation this week and ISN'T SHE GOING BACK TO WORK YET? :P Today was promised to be our stay home and be lazy day, but Mom's interpretation of "stay home and be lazy" involved cleaning out the refrigerator, changing the cat litter, dusting, vacuuming and generally otherwise finding things to DO.

As promised, more Cissie! ;)

( Cissie goes to the Olympics, her mother saves the day and she gets a roommate... )

Next time, Cissie joins Young Justice as they play baseball with aliens to save the planet--and is jealous of Empress, and gets an agent.

Okay, so I go from not posting in several days to posting four times in one afternoon, but all these IM posts do come from TWO conversations--Wednesday and Thursday nights. So, um... not sure how, but that makes it better? Also, my mother is sick and I am taking care of her and thus spending my Saturday just sitting here. ;)

So, lately, I gave in to the voice in my head that was screaming DICK GRAYSON at me, and I revisited some of my comics. Which lead me to giving in to curiousity and finally reading Infinite Crisis.

Oh, DC. I love and hate you, all at once.

The hate? Well. >_< Superboy punched reality, didn't he? Which is entirely cracktastic and wonderful in that it's SO cracktastic, but it's also... horrid. ::shrug:: Also, not a fan of mindless death, but it's comics, right? Meh.

The love? Well.

I've mentioned that I've been in love with Dick Grayson since I was seven, right? ;) And the whole screwed up father-son relationship between him and Bruce is one of my favorite things, EVER, and Infinite Crisis? Was chockful of it.

I was planning on posting about this eventually, but zoe_chan and I got chatting and I wound up explaining it all via IM, so I'm gonna just copy/paste, rather than retype. ;)

But first! I was chatting and this exchange occurred:

Me: Well, Dick kind of spiraled into this wacky emo drama king full of WOE and DOOOOM.
zoe_chan: I don't really see Robin as emo.
Me: No, but Nightwing is.

And prompted me to give a quick and extensive off-the-top-of-my-head history of Dick Grayson, former Boy Wonder. ;)

Note: This was all utterly off the top of my head, so forgive any inconsistencies. Also, while I have read a fair amount of Nightwing, I also read a lot of Wiki. ;) Also, my grasp of DC timelines--especially after both Crises--is handwavy at times.

Another note: I really did gloss over a LOT of details and if you want more, check out Wikipedia, at LEAST. ;) I actually know more than this lets on, if you can believe that. I am completely aware that much more went on than I managed to convey. I could probably talk for several hours about Dick, AND the people around him. Contrary to what I might let on, I know a LOT more about the DCU than I do about the X-Men. And, sacriledge that it is, my love for Dick may be EVER SO SLIGHTLY more than my love for Scott, which, ACK!! So WRONG!

( Wherein I discuss the Life and Times of Dick Grayson, introduce Roy Harper, discuss the original Teen Titans, quote a lot of Infinite Crisis and Nightwing and generally am a HUGE comics geek. )

So, yeah. I think that covers everything I could possibly want to say about Infinite Crisis, Bruce as an Emotionally Constipated Father Figure, the Batclan, the Titans, and why Dick is, indeed, emo these days.

ETA, 3/2/07: D'oh! I read this over now and I think "wait, no, I was WRONG!" Because now I've done far more research on the Teen Titans and oh. It's not bad as a picture of what I knew, but now I know more. So forgive me. =P