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Subj: It's a man's world, but it wouldn't mean nothing without a woman or a girl.
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 08:23:17 am EST (Viewed 2 times)
Reply Subj: Either that or the highway, I'm told.
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 at 12:29:39 am EST (Viewed 427 times)



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    Ah, we're so close to big revelations, I can almost taste them!


Yes, I keep sicking them up too.


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    Another interesting way to tackle the insane action in a new way. I enjoyed the flashback to seeing the Hood put his plans into action, as we don't usually get such direct conversations from him.


In the right circumstances, declaiming archvillains are excellent exposition engines.


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    And then with the battle scenes and the reports of all the action coming in, I was lulled enough to be taken somewhat by surprise when he grabbed Lui Xi and made a run for it, even knowing that was what he agreed to do just before all that (story-wise... time-wise things get complicated really quickly.) And then the Elementalist took over and made for some fun scenes ("I'll let you know if I need any more apologies") and some exposition untangling the whole Celestian Madonna thing.


It had to be done. Best to include a kidnapping and a threat of imminent death to leaven the verbage.

Next chapter I resort to my other go-to (also beloved by Game of Thrones), the exposition scene with the naked person.


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    Watching you juggle all of this is all almost enough to make me feel bad that I could never get a handle on my one story about rescuing some unhappy bunnies from a theme park to finish it.


I'm sure you'll get back to that shortly.


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      I imagine that a small memorial to Chokohontas will be in order in the present-day mansion. Possibly with a spring-loaded beaver model.



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    NTU could probably alter the front door to launch spring-loaded beavers at any intruders. Or visiting dignitaries.


By now the mansion could probably alter itself that way.


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      I believe we will be getting more on that in Chapter 31, which will conclude the issue and lead into *sigh* the concluding issue UT#360.



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    Yes, well... just don't cackle "Nothing can stop me from finishing this story now!" when you sit down to write 360. It's a nice round number to end on though.


So would 100. Or 20.


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      I'm all for her breaking out into a song about what she's looking for in life...



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      Zania or Rhiannon? Because Rhi is way ahead of you.



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    Nice! Get enough of those songs together and she can license a "Rhiannon on Ice!" theme show to tour. Once the toy residuals come in, life gets real easy. Is that what she happened to sing about?


This week it has mostly been lyrics from Galavant.


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      Really though, Sarah needs to come back and write a series where she sets Mr. Papadapopolis up on a series of dates until he finds true love, because now I'm worried about him.



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      Well, he entertains a young woman in Chapter 31.



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    I'm thinking that romance isn't in the cards there. Although maybe she'd enjoy a good Taramosalata.


Well, Mr P. isn;t in the market, but there is a customer who might take an interest.


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      Is John Byrne still alive?



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    Honestly, I haven't been keeping track of him... Now I'm paranoid that he's loose and closing in on my beloved characters once more...


Didn't he fall out big time with Marvel and will never work for them again? That's why he had to go off and ruin Wonder Woman and Doom Patrol.


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    I did see something about Doctor Who tackling a super-hero story... was that the episode? Did the merging of concepts work?


It was a fun, light-hearted episode that had some great riffs on old-school superhero tropes: the troubles of a shy adolecent boy whose X-ray vision won't turn off at school, an open-minded enquiry into the sexuality of someone who flies around in rubber with a big G on his chest; a jealous love triangle between a nosy reporter, her mild-mannered nanny, and his heroic alter-ego. And a nice subtext about what really makes a hero heroic. Also with Christopher Reeves-level flying effects and not even a smudge of "modern" superhero grimness to darken the day! Recommended.


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      Another artist whom I thought great but who seriously passed his sell-by date is Frank Miller. Daredevil remains my favourite of his work.



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    He did seem to go a bit off the rails there from what I heard about his recent DC work. Still, with major entertainment based off his work on Batman, Daredevil, Sin City, 300 (and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in a way), he definitely had a run of massive influence in the last decade based on his prior works. That had to feel nice.


I think he also did RoboCop.