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thehefnerOf all the accursed... I've lost my hat again. I thought I'd left it at the theater last night, but they don't have it. Poop. Ever since Bloo found that hat for me, we both knew it was perfect for me. Just like Elvis Costello's glasses, this hat was becoming my image! Blast. If I find it again, I am going to safety pin it to my jacket like a pair of goddamn mittens, I swear. And if I don't, well, I'll track down a store that carries 'em and I'll buy five. But the sentimental value just won't be there. Bah.
Damn it. I'm gonna be bummed about this all day.
Oh, and I just finished STARMAN.
Ok. Did anyone else just totally hate Sadie?
There was not a single moment that I liked this character. She was a cold bitch who manipulated Jack (regardless of how her feelings later changed) into going to outer space to find her brother, and when he gets back, she leaves him! No goodbye, no talk, she just left a note like a selfish coward just after Jack's father had died! Oh, and then she says he has to choose between being Starman and being with her. The fact that he'd already *made* the decision to give up being Starman was beside the point. And her dialogue itself made her strangle-worthy: "OH JACK, I MISSED YOU SO!" And he just took it all without a word of complaint. Jack Knight, I love ya, but you are seriously whipped.
A seriously major weak point (but certainly not the only weak point) to an otherwise excellent series.
Damn it. I'm gonna be bummed about this all day.
Oh, and I just finished STARMAN.
Ok. Did anyone else just totally hate Sadie?
There was not a single moment that I liked this character. She was a cold bitch who manipulated Jack (regardless of how her feelings later changed) into going to outer space to find her brother, and when he gets back, she leaves him! No goodbye, no talk, she just left a note like a selfish coward just after Jack's father had died! Oh, and then she says he has to choose between being Starman and being with her. The fact that he'd already *made* the decision to give up being Starman was beside the point. And her dialogue itself made her strangle-worthy: "OH JACK, I MISSED YOU SO!" And he just took it all without a word of complaint. Jack Knight, I love ya, but you are seriously whipped.
A seriously major weak point (but certainly not the only weak point) to an otherwise excellent series.
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Date: 2007-01-12 07:44 pm (UTC)I hope you find your hat.
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Date: 2007-01-13 03:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-13 08:07 pm (UTC)Honorable mention definitely goes to Steve Trevor, mainly thanks to
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Date: 2007-01-13 08:07 pm (UTC)Y'know, I'm just gonna copy-paste what I wrote above, because it applies here:
Since I read this, I've been contemplating a list of the top worst superhero's girlfriends. The list definitely includes Sadie and early Lois, but I who else? Carol Ferris? Jade?
Honorable mention definitely goes to Steve Trevor, mainly thanks to
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Date: 2007-01-13 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-14 04:14 am (UTC)Jade? Yep.
Steve...Trevor? Homie, you risk stepping to Lyle Waggoner with this one. I'll have to get back to you.
Lyle Waggoner was the shiznit, yo.
Jane Foster from THOR. They might have killed her off. I might have cared.
Patsy Walker from THE DEFENDERS. Dead weight and a HALF.
Jean Grey, pre- or post-Phoenix. Come on; you know it's true.
Amanda Sefton, Nightcrawler's ex.
Lilandra Shi'ar Assbite Cougar Mellencamp from X-MEN.
Bethany Snow from IRON MAN. She went all Mary Sue Super Ass-Whipping Monkey, which was almost cool, but then she needed space.
Mockingbird. Oh GOD, lady! Just die, already! Oh...wait. Sorry.
Marlene from MOON KNIGHT. The guy should have dumped her, offed her using those cool moon-darts, or paid Taskmaster to "teach her macrame."
Black Canary, during Mike Grell's run of GREEN ARROW.
Any woman who has ever dated Batman, ever. Period.
Starfire. They're killing The Question, they've killed Animal Man, but this spacewhore gets to live?!
I could do this all night, you know.
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Date: 2007-01-14 04:15 am (UTC)You know, before Jericho was introduced, anyway.
Gnyergh. Never liked that guy. Kinda cheered his pig-stickin', back in the day.
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Date: 2007-01-14 02:21 pm (UTC)^^; I actually adore Jericho, partially because he wa sintroduced in the very firs tissue of Teen Titans I picked up, and aprtially because of the mutton chops, I'm sure.
But Frances = on the list. Raven should probably be on there, too, even thouse she's a superhero herslf, becuase brainwashing guys into loving you is just not cool.
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Date: 2007-01-14 05:38 pm (UTC)Lyle Waggoner? Wha? But seriously, read
Lilandra, god yes.
I get the feeling Starfire won't make it out of 52, based on the allusions in Teen Titans lately.
Yeah, while I do have a fondness for Silver St. Cloud (only because I love that entire run and its cracktacular sequel), I'd tend to agree. Sasha Bordeaux was a fine foil in her early issues, but after that... oy.
Oh! Oh! I just thought of one of my (least) favorites of all time! Milla Donovan, from Bendis' DAREDEVIL. Dear lord!
This is fun. I gotta get some other folks in on this.
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Date: 2007-01-14 06:16 pm (UTC)Nice Anthony Andrews icon. Is that Tale of Two Cities or The Scarlet Pimpernel?
I KNOW it's not Ivanhoe.
<---child of the '70s/'80s
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Date: 2007-01-14 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-15 03:40 am (UTC)I'm not sure if you're referring to loving muttonchops or brainwashing men, but I feel this is a good juncture to point out that I'm queer, so the statement might apply to me, in some way..?
The Scarlet Pimpernel. Anthony Andrews is my favourite version. :3
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Date: 2007-01-15 06:03 am (UTC)And yay muttonchops! Boo brainwashing. Hooray beer!
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Date: 2007-01-15 07:32 am (UTC)Those are the only ones I've seen. I know people who prefer the musical to all, so there you go.
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Date: 2007-01-15 01:27 pm (UTC)Muttonchops are an obvious violation of the Geneva Conventions.
And DO you brainwash men? HMM? DO YOU?
I'm straight, so it can be assumed (quite safely, I assure you) that I've been brainwashed. Often. At range.
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Date: 2007-01-15 01:28 pm (UTC)He'd put the "pimp" back in pimpernel.
Hooray beer, indeed.
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Date: 2007-01-15 08:58 pm (UTC):O *hugs some random nearby mutton-shopped person protectively*
And DO you brainwash men? HMM? DO YOU?
Gosh, I hope not. If I do, I must be doing it wrong. I think maybe I get brainwashed.
I've been brainwashed. Often. At range.
XD Impressive.
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Date: 2007-01-15 08:59 pm (UTC)*slaps self*
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Date: 2007-01-15 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-16 05:31 am (UTC)Excellent!
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Date: 2007-01-16 12:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-17 08:59 pm (UTC)Worst Comicbook Girlfriend
Date: 2007-02-28 05:25 am (UTC)Re: Worst Comicbook Girlfriend
Date: 2007-02-28 06:15 am (UTC)I'm actually ashamed to say that I have no idea who that is.
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Date: 2007-02-28 06:28 am (UTC)Can't recall how I missed this the first time around.
Short lived character in the X-books. Used to date Iceman.
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Date: 2007-02-28 06:36 am (UTC)Those stories reprinted anywhere? Or, in short, why did she suck so? Because I really should compile this list at some point, just, y'know, ta have.
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Date: 2007-02-28 07:01 am (UTC)Short condensed version of it. If I had more time, I'd write more.
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Date: 2007-02-28 07:08 am (UTC)But I still don't think anyone can top Sadie for the list.