is Johnny Go gonna hafta choke a bitch?
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thehefnerAs if my mood wasn't foul enough today, with Misty memories playing wallball against my brain, I went to my comic store to discover that three things have occured in this week's shipment of books:
1.) Leslie Thompkins, the lovable old doctor who was one of Bruce Wayne's oldest friends, was revealed to have killed Stephanie Brown, AKA Robin #4. She deliberately withheld treatment so she could die and subsequently teach Batman a lesson about taking on these young impressionable kids into his war on crime. Or some such bullshit. Never mind that Leslie has been one of the most compassionate, humane characters in Batman's history. Never mind that she's such a dedicated healer she once protected heartless serial killer Mr. Zsasz from a lynch mob. Never mind any of that shit, because none of it matters now.
2.) DC brought back a beloved, obscure character back for the express purpose of killing him in an utterly pointless way that did absolutely nothing to further the plot. Just as they have been doing for the past year. First Sue Dibney, then Blue Beetle, then Maxwell Lord, and now Rocket Red. Dead for cheap shock value lowest common denominator storytelling.
3.) Two-Face's true past is being revealed, and it turns out that Harvey Dent isn't really Harvey after all, but his brother! Or maybe it's not that, but rather Harvey's evil side, Two-Face, finally has an actual name. In either case, what sinister, bone-chilling name has finally been unveiled for the dark persona of one of Batman's greatest villains and my personal favorite character? It's... wait for it... Murray.
I fucking hate you, DC Comics. I was already feeling miserable, but seeing my father today, reading these comics, and coming home to a depressed nagging mother really, really just turns me into a pent-up ball of soon-to-be-un-pent fury. DC is spitting on everything I love in comics, especially at a time when I really, really need good comics to get my mind of this sudden horrible influx of romantic angst sparked by the stuff I found out recently. I wish everything about Misty would just solve itself and/or go away. I wish it was a whole fucking year ago, with college starting up again and the only thing I had to worry about was getting over Tammy.
I'm going to work out now and when I come back I'm gonna watch Oldboy.
1.) Leslie Thompkins, the lovable old doctor who was one of Bruce Wayne's oldest friends, was revealed to have killed Stephanie Brown, AKA Robin #4. She deliberately withheld treatment so she could die and subsequently teach Batman a lesson about taking on these young impressionable kids into his war on crime. Or some such bullshit. Never mind that Leslie has been one of the most compassionate, humane characters in Batman's history. Never mind that she's such a dedicated healer she once protected heartless serial killer Mr. Zsasz from a lynch mob. Never mind any of that shit, because none of it matters now.
2.) DC brought back a beloved, obscure character back for the express purpose of killing him in an utterly pointless way that did absolutely nothing to further the plot. Just as they have been doing for the past year. First Sue Dibney, then Blue Beetle, then Maxwell Lord, and now Rocket Red. Dead for cheap shock value lowest common denominator storytelling.
3.) Two-Face's true past is being revealed, and it turns out that Harvey Dent isn't really Harvey after all, but his brother! Or maybe it's not that, but rather Harvey's evil side, Two-Face, finally has an actual name. In either case, what sinister, bone-chilling name has finally been unveiled for the dark persona of one of Batman's greatest villains and my personal favorite character? It's... wait for it... Murray.
I fucking hate you, DC Comics. I was already feeling miserable, but seeing my father today, reading these comics, and coming home to a depressed nagging mother really, really just turns me into a pent-up ball of soon-to-be-un-pent fury. DC is spitting on everything I love in comics, especially at a time when I really, really need good comics to get my mind of this sudden horrible influx of romantic angst sparked by the stuff I found out recently. I wish everything about Misty would just solve itself and/or go away. I wish it was a whole fucking year ago, with college starting up again and the only thing I had to worry about was getting over Tammy.
I'm going to work out now and when I come back I'm gonna watch Oldboy.
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Date: 2005-08-27 02:40 am (UTC)Dmitri!!!!!!!!!
Ahhghgh! Must get to comic store now!!
HATE DC!!!!
(angst!)
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Date: 2005-08-27 04:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-02 03:08 am (UTC)