preparing for the great Scans_Daily migration

I got a Dreamwidth account for the express purpose of following the upcoming Scans_Daily 3.0. I remain cautiously optimistic. On one hand, yay for a new permanent home! On the other hand, I've been enjoying reading S_D less and less over the past few weeks.

Certain wanky parties are making every other post a frustrating experience, tipping what was once a grand community closer to what I'd expect to see on the Newsarama or DC Comics message boards. Despite the best efforts of many, S_D 2.0 never quite felt right--it's just never been the same since 1.0 closed, dang it!--so here's hoping the new DW version will finally return the community to its former awesomeness and beyond.

In the meantime, I actually feel hesitant to post anything new for fear of inciting wank, even though I'm rather excited about recent acquisitions like that old JLA story where Two-Face teams up with the League to fight aliens inhabiting statues of Ben Franklin, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon. God, I'm starting to love the Silver Age more and more as the years go by.

still thinking of that Harvey-centric blog rather than actually doing anything either way...

... then again, it occurs to me that people on scans_daily are starting to anticipate me showing up every time there's a Harvey-related post. I seem to be earning a reputation, all right. Hopefully that reputation is shaping up to be something more like "the authority on all things Harvey Dent" rather than "that loser obsessed with Two-Face."

One way to cultivate the former (while still risking the latter) would be to finally bite the bullet and start up that blog where I would devote to analysis, criticism, and discussion of all things Harvey-related. If I could keep it from being the ultimate shrine to my time-wasting fanwank and manage to create thoughtful and witty essays (while still getting writing and Fringing done IRL), it would be awesome.

I just wish I had some basic knowledge of customizing LJ layouts and/or photoshop capabilities. I keep thinking how I'd like to have one side showing several images of Harvey's good side over the years, and on the other side, just have one huge single image of the bad side. I'm thinking that one from Matt Wagner's FACES,* where he's in darkness; only the bulging eye and exposed teeth are visible. Something like that. But then, I sadly have little sense of style in such matters, as my current LJ layout will attest (gotta get me a new one soon.)

I'm thinking of calling it about_faces. Unless anyone can think of anything slighty witty that hasn't already been taken.






*You know what the problem with Matt Wagner's FACES is? It should really have been a Penguin story. And it would have been awesome. Seriously, poor Ozzie hasn't had a single truly *great* story in over thirty years, but instead, Wagner uses Two-Face, and everyone loses. Sigh.