Movies, Comics, Video Games, Self Detrimental Humor.
1) Give me a pairing.
2) Give me an AU setting.
3) I will write you a three-sentence fic.
Jumping on the bandwagon later than the others. Bite me.
Aaaand even later!
Sure, I’ll do it. I could use some brainteasers to help me write my latest assignment.
I’m reviving an old classic since I have a story due this week.
Exclusive clip from Batman: Year One. Ohhh baby.
The DCnU continues to develop as we dive deeper into The Dark Knight’s world!
A LANNISTER ALWAYS GETS THE EMMY.
They are as follows.
• Agnes Nutter (Gunpowder, charred wood, smoke, and rusty nails.)
• Aziraphale (Ethereal musk, blonde woods, and dusty Bible accord.)
• The Buggre Alle This Bible (Crumbling paper and ancient cracked leather with a touch of tobacco leaf and incense.)
• Crowley (Infernal musk, red patchouli, lilac cologne, mahogany, lemon rind, oakmoss, leather, and vanilla husk.)
• Famine (Sleek black tea, tobacco leaf, frankincense, lilac, and white musk.)
• Jasmine Cottage (Camellia, jasmine, heather, orange blossom, osmanthus, wisteria, thyme, angelica, freesia, granny’s nightcap, and English wildflowers.)
• Madame Tracy (A coquettish blend of tea rose, ume blossom, geranium, lily of the valley, violet, and heliotrope.)
• Nanny Ashtoreth (Middle Eastern flowers, amber, honey, blood red-berries, whip leather, and polished paddle wood.)
• Pepper (Wild English roses, French gardenia, vanilla, honey, golden ginger, blood orange, pine resin, pink pepper, crushed berries, tuberose, bergamot, and geranium.)
• Pollution (A toxic chypre: radioactive green musk, davana, and oozing white amber.)
• Shadwell (Roll-ups, mildewed raincoat, sweet tea, and condensed milk.)
• War (Red ginger, black spices, patchouli, honeysuckle, and three blood-soaked red musks.)
• Wensleydale (An immaculately clean scent: well-scrubbed soapy skin and fresh cotton.)
• Hastur (Smoky-sour labdanum, black patchouli, wet tobacco, and brimstone.)
• Ligur (Dry olibanum, black moss, soggy ti, khus, and opoponax.)
I totally want to smell like Crowley. However that is supposed to smell.
And he’s eyeing the delicious Christina Hendricks for the main role. Read bother of their opinions on the matter by clicking the link.
Thoughts?
IGN conspires to kill Harley Quinn fan’s boners. Hilarity ensues.
A public service announcement from The Goon from the team working on the production limbo’d Goon animated movie.
Feat. Clancy Brown and Paul Giamatti.
Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
WRITER: PAUL CORNELL
PENCILLER: DIOGENES NEVIS
INKER: OCAIR ALBERT
Wow, this was a fantastic book. Opening with the “Last Days of Camelot”, we see the fall of the Kingdom of Arthur, and the fusion of Jason Blood and the vile Demon Etrigan.
I will gush about Paul Cornell’s dialogue here, because if there’s one thin he does well, it’s clever dialogue. It truly seems like he’s already found his voice with this motley crew of characters he’s assembled, and at no point did I find myself cringing at the dialogue. Nevis’ art is really stellar here as well, seeing as how he manages to render both the human and non-human cast exceptionally well.
The story itself was engaging too, as we see the horde of the “Questing Queen” marching towards it’s unknown goal, laying waste to anything in it’s path. Unfortunately, it would seem as though the Horde is attacking the wrong little village at the wrong time, as Jason Blood and Madam Xanadu have just set up camp there. Fighting ensues, and The Head Geek in Charge is a happy camper.
THE GEEKS GIVE IT FIVE POSSESSED BABIES OUT OF FIVE.
SCRIPT: KYLE HIGGINS
PENCILS: JOE BENNET
One of the points brought up during the pages of Deathstroke’s first issue is that the title character is in dire need of a perception update. In the DCnU, Slade Wilson is getting on in years and has been regulated to simple bodyguard work and that’s not okay. In a lot of ways, it’s sort of a commentary of the treatment of Deathstroke as a character, he’s never really given his due.
Higgins has gone on record saying that Deathstroke was going to be brutal, and he was definitely not kidding. The second and third pages are just a giant spread of Slade just murdering the holy hell out of a squad of Russian mercenaries. Heads go flying, blood sprays every where, it’s a gory splatterfest right from the get go.
That is until we meet The Alpha Dawgz, a group of young mercenaries that are teamed up with DS for his newest mission. They’re “the new generation” of mercenaries, and Deathstroke’s primary competition. They inject that all too common sort of “Buffy” ness that is so common in comics now (Remember when BTVS’ dialogue was new and exciting? I do.) Providing a sort of foil to the all business, all serious Slade, we’re made to think that perhaps they’ll be a mainstay of the series.
Well… You’ll have to read it yourself.
Bottom line is that Deathstroke is a fun book, with a cool main character and ridiculous action pretty much from start to finish (Fun Fact: Three books had plane sequences in them this week. I think Deathstroke’s is the coolest.)
The Geeks Give It FOUR DAWGZ OUT OF FIVE
