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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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eggvip
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| Subject: | Twilight |
| Time: | 9:26 am. |
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I only read the first book and half of the second book before I couldn't take it anymore.
This was almost -immediately- after they were first published, so... I didn't really remember anything.
I decided to see it because three of my friends LOVE Twilight and one of them got me a ticket. I couldn't really see myself saying "no" and not feeling guilty for ages.
Well, the movie was infinitely better than the book for a few reasons:
1.) The movie seemed to be purposely campy. I -honestly- believe Stephanie Meyers took herself seriously while writing the books. The movie seemed to be made with the idea that "This is bullshit. LOL." ...which it is.
2.) I didn't have to deal with Stephanie's style of writing. There was a -little- bit of narration, and, as expected, I freaking hated it. But, overall, getting to watch Edward do whatever was a million times better than reading him "flex his big, strong, powerful, agile, nubile, rustique, chipotle, chicken, snack, wrap, strapping, sinewy, sauteed, striking muscles."
3.) Sitting next to a group of women that were also dubious about seeing the film. Who laughed when I said "IN THE PREFECT'S BATHROOM" the first time Edward said something overtly flirtatious.
Observations
1.) The Cullen dad, at first, seemed to young for the role. If all the "seventeen" year old vampires look 23, then the 23 year old vampire needs to look like a 28 year old. However, despite looking the same age as the other actors, he managed to always be placed where he looked taller and dominant. Also, his demeanor was mature enough to show his "age."
2.) Robert Pattinson and the girl that played Bella are seriously horrible at acting. I said I would be as unbiased as possible, but I really cringed at least twenty times due to their delivery. I mean, we can argue that they ALSO went "This is bullshit. LOL." but... I really don't think they did.
3.) The guy playing Bella's dad was an amazing actor. He delivered some horrifically DEADPAN humor in a way that seemed like a real person was sitting there saying something without realizing how freaking hilarious it was.
4.) Um... wtf PLOT!? I know, I know, that was a main failing of the book. At the end I was just kind of like "Okay... as much as they lacerated the Harry Potter books for the movies, couldn't they tie a fucking tourniquet around Twilight and inject a few pints of MAKE SOME DAMN SENSE?" I don't know -why- but I really thought they were going to embellish the plot for the movie. They. Changed. Almost. NOTHING. As much as I hated seeing Narnia, Potter, Compass, etc get bumsmacked for their respective films, I would have LOVED to see the writers give Bella and Edward some more "simmer" time or explain why, suddenly, she's head over heels and perfectly okay with "teh creepy."
5.) This is my first time realizing how many "normal" preppy girls love Twilight. I thought that the evergrowing population of emo kids, mall rats, kindergoths, and potterheads-going-through-bookhype-withdrawal were fueling the Twilight Nation. Oh, no. I saw kids there wearing bcbg dresses, coach bags, and steve madden pumps going "HOMG EDWAAAAARRRRRRRD! HOORAY!"
Sidenote:
There was an annoying group of 15 year olds in front of us. At one point in the film I started choking on my water and it sprayed onto the one directly in front of me. They turned around long enough to see a big black woman (boo!) and turned back around like I didn't just give their friend an impromptu shower. As much as I felt bad about doing it (despite it being an accident) I can't help but feel slightly victorious because they were silent (a few titters, giggles, or sighs here and there) for the rest of the film.
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boombangbing
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YOU GUYS. LOOK WHAT WAS IN MY POSTBOX TODAY.
( Cut for picture, but mostly for awesome. )
On that note, here's everything I feel about Heroes S3, put far more coherently than I ever could. AND! last Heroes thing for this post: I got volume two of the graphic novels today at Forbidden Planet. I'd completely forgotten it was being published this month.
I talked to my principal today about universities; apparently there are actually a bunch of places that offer creative writing here, it's just kind of hidden. So, I have a choice of about seven universities that he said had good reputations. Strathclyde offers Politics and Journalism & Creative Writing, and I have to say, I'm actually kind of interested in it. Idk, I used to find politics boring, but I've really been enjoying it this year. Hm.
Last thing: a pretty cute guy serving me in Paperchase (buying more Christmas cards, ftw!) complimented my robot necklace. :D GUYS DON'T DO THAT KIND OF THING WITH ME. IT'S NICE.
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alchematrix
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| Subject: | Hee! And ew. |
| Time: | 8:51 am. |
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I love various pop culture/RL references in WoW.
( Beat Mages and Yo-Saff. )
In other news, Xandari is level 76, and over halfway to 77. Soon, I will be able to fly in Northrend!
Also, there is something inherently wrong with your character eating seeds from an innocent-looking bucket, then getting a quest from a nearby NPC to gather stuff for a laxative so you can poop those seeds back out as they were apparently quite valuable. You even have to go to the outhouse, and while you're in there (you just have an outside view) the screen shakes a little and you get this AoE-looking animation of probably gaseous expulsions, complete with sound effects of someone really seriously pooping in there. Then you take the half-processed seeds back to the guy...who puts them in the bucket from which you got them in the first place. Meaning the seeds you ate were probably previously pooped out by someone else.
This, added to a various other quests in Outlands and Northrend requiring you either dig through or gather some animal's poo...means someone at Blizzard has a seriously juvenile sense of humor. Or a sadistic streak toward players. Perhaps both.
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depravedangel
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What is this twilight thing that everyone is talking about? I am too lazy to google it.
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lyssie
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| Subject: | it's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere... |
| Time: | 7:16 am. |
| Mood: |  cold. |
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1. fslash today winter porn battle is live now. I'm a bit confused that most of the BSG (and crossover) prompts were mine. wtf. I mean, I know I loaded it down so I could have a lot, but still!
2. Cramping that ability to post, though, we're off to the wilds of Ohio today, returning late Sunday. This is to spend an early Thanksgiving with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) alryssa and mcganndoc. Eeeeeeeeeeee!
3. Note to self: directions, woman.
4. *still eying prompts* Y'know, having seen some One Tree Hill, I now have the bad urge to write some Peyton/Brooke... (possibly with Haley walking in and being all, "...I'll be back later...") whoops
5. shit. late for work.
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Note to self: working in a cafe where you are the ONLY person on staff with a Y chromosome has got to be the best fucking job in the world.
seriously... i LOVE going to work. everyday.
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malaisia
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| Subject: | I am not expecting an answer, but would be delighted to get one. |
| Time: | 4:44 am. |
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Anyone have any idea where to sell comics overseas? Let's say France. What stores buy minis there? This is something I might have looked into while I was in Europe this summer, but my French is, how you say, godawful.
The reason I ask is because today, a French couple was in the store, and had read my comics from a friend in France & specifically asked me for me, not knowing who I was until my coworkers gave it away. So, that was the shit. And now I want to know who their friend is and where he got my books.
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wednesdaychan
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| Subject: | Documentary time |
| Time: | 3:11 am. |
| Mood: |  excited. | | Music: | The Veronicas "Untouched". |
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So I was looking around youtube and came across diffrent documentarys on cosplay.conventions.
So I got the crazy thought in my head that I want to try this.
Just for fun, since I'm going to be at several con's within the next few months.
So basically I'll be working out the kinks and so forth about how I'm going to go about doing this.
So I guess just a warning to friends that will be attending Ohayocon, Ikasucon, and Matsuricon, I might try to interview you on diffrent things.
Give me some feed back on diffrent things, I'll post more later.
Love, Peace, and think up some of your best con stories because I will be asking.
Satalia o_0
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trueseven
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| Subject: | Tweets for Today |
| Time: | 5:05 am. |
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| Subject: | Tweets for Today |
| Time: | 3:25 am. |
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sidhedreams
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| Subject: | Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparkle motion. . . . |
| Time: | 2:25 am. |
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You all knew this was coming. Well, you knew it was coming if you had any inkling of my deep and intense mockery for all things Twilight and Stephanie Meyers. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the occasional vampire/werewolf/paranormal bit of fiction (not to mention my love of all things Buffy). But I grew out of Anne Rice at fifteen. At this point, even Laurell K. Hamilton is almost as boring at times. But the fact remains that the world of geek is going to be a mad house this weekend due to this newest crazy unleashed upon us. All thanks to one mormon woman with unreal expectations for the masculine.
And besides, Twilight is too ridiculous to pass up the opportunity for ridicule. And since Twilight is officially coming out in theaters tomorrow today, it had to be done. And come on, the book features SPARKLY VAMPIRES. That alone leads to all kinds of fun stuff.
From the webcomic Headtrip
( On with the Twilight funny! )
After hearing all the horror stories, I just feel badly for all the actors in this movie. Bless their hearts. And if, for any reason, you decide to make it to the movie - why not try Twilight BINGO to keep your sanity. Good luck.
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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krystynn
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| Subject: | though i'll deny and protest... |
| Time: | 3:00 am. |
| Mood: |  cold. | | Music: | Monica - Before You Walk Out My Life. |
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i'm still envious of the cool kids.
no, not that up-and-coming rap group (though they are totally slaying it!)
but the actual kids from high school...
i knew them
i know them
and i always feel like no matter what i do
i'll always be living in their shadows
breathing their dust
watching them do the things i'll never do
the things i never did
for reasons i don't know why.
maybe its because i have that stupid little voice in my head that tells me things
things that never happened
but probably could have.
things that are happeneing
and im not apart of.
the way i've lived my life has skewered my perception of the world so badly.
i don't think there's any way to fix it.
that's the way the cookie crumbles, i suppose...
and on that note, i think i'm going to go eat one.
(no, not really, i'm full to bursting point on chips and salsa... ugh)
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Keeley has to adapt an Australian recipie for her school breakup party. Instructions are that she should use uniquely Aussie ingredients and make or remake an Australian dessert of savory dish. She has to 'personalize' it to make something 'different'.
I'm having a hard time convincing her that 'Vegimite Pavlova' might not be as tasty as she seems to think it will be (and adding peanut butter and cheese most certainly won't make it appeal to me any better). Lol, at least it will be 'personalized', because I don't know of too many other kids that will eat it so she'd have it all to herself.
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lyssie
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| Subject: | fic: BSG, Articles of Faith, Kara/Sam, R/PG13 |
| Time: | 12:22 am. |
| Mood: | cold. | | Music: | Sneaker Pimps - Post-Modern Sleaze. |
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Disclaimer: not mine
Rating: R, language, sexual situations
Pairing: Kara Thrace/Sam Anders
Spoilers: through 4.10--Revelations
Genre: Episode insert (Maelstrom), angst, post-Revelations
Length: 3000
Notes: This one hit me at work today, gave me fits on my way home and then dragged something vaguely cheesy out of me for the end. Thanks to lucyparavel for saying it wasn't awful.
Articles of Faith
by ALC Punk!
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saintdani
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| Subject: | Tweets for Today |
| Time: | 2:20 am. |
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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| Subject: | Tweets for Today |
| Time: | 10:58 am. |
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lyssie
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| Subject: | I think I have a new fandom. |
| Time: | 11:43 pm. |
| Mood: |  bouncy. | | Music: | Portishead - It's a Fire. |
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He cooks, he cleans, he plays the drums, AND he lets her kick his ass with her sharp and pointy fans!
(they are ADORABLE)
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commodoremarie
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| Subject: | Small Random Spammage |
| Time: | 9:16 pm. |
| Mood: |  crazy. |
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If this doesn't make you laugh, you need to see a doctor about that stick up your ass.
GQ Man of the Year? Not with that slug on his lip he's not! Michael C. Hall, what were you thinking?! That thing better not still be crawling on you come next season of Dexter.
Mysterous Meat Has Residents Baffled. So apparently meat has been appearing on a street corner of Massachusetts with some regularity, and people aren't sure why. And no, sadly "meat" is not being used here euphemistically.
Annnnd the ubiquitous YouTube, a cat riding a Roomba.
Oh yeah, and on Tuesday I got to correct the class Bible-Thumper's knowledge of the Bible. It was a moment of pure win.
Apparently I'm feeling rather punchy tonight. Too bad punchy =/= productive.
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jessbevan
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| Time: | 11:02 pm. |
| Mood: |  melancholy. |
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FAIL.
ABC, you suck. What am I going to do without Lee Pace in my life?
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blinkilite
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| Subject: | update |
| Time: | 10:40 pm. |
| Mood: |  loved. |
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let's see... updating...
i've spent entirely too much time playing warcraft over the last few days, but that is because i was working hard to get to lvl 70 so i could play in the new area of northrend... and now i made it. :D i also found out that you can get a flying mount for 900g. like a silly noob, i thought all the flying mounts were 5000g, so i just wrote it off that i could never get one, but that is for the EPIC flying mounts, not the regular ones. haha silly me. so i have enough to get one, but wanna wait a little longer because i don't wanna be completely poor ass broke once i do get it...
but enough warcraft talk...
there was an auction this week for some good cause that offered afternoon tea in NYC with neil gaiman. so i immediately send off the link to my husband and say that "if you randomly want to buy me an overly extravagant gift for xmas this year, you can buy me this and i will ask for nothing else this year". i also threw in the condition that chris just bidding on it didn't count, i actually had to win it. and that chris was also not allowed to make fun of me for being obsessed with/in love with neil while in the presence of neil. chris is king of loopholes so any kind of thing i ask for him to do he finds the loophole, so i was trying to prevent him being silly about it. LOL honestly i know neil has fans everywhere and the auction would go for a lot of money... so i was half joking when i sent it.
chris told me yesterday that he did actually bid on it and was the winner for a good few hours, but by the end it just went beyond the amount of money he could spend on it. i was shocked. i really didn't think he would take it seriously. but at the same time he knows me well, and knows that that is something that i would completely DIE over. i thought it was super sweet and i felt sorta humbled by it and kinda bad because i don't have a way to do something like that for chris. he's just not as obsessive as me i guess... but still i thought it was really sweet. :)
btw, the auction ended at $3050. so it definitely wasn't a cheap afternoon tea with Neil. ;)
in other news, my friend Joe's site will be able to go live this weekend... i finally figured out my action script problem and just kinda re-did one part of it from scratch rather than keep modifying code that came with it (i think there were conflicting things in there). so i am very happy about that. i will post a real post about that when it goes live. its my first site i have ever done completely in flash, so i am pretty excited. just last year i was thinking that i completely suck in flash and couldn't do anything. now i built a whole website by myself... with only minimal questions for dave.... which totally rocks.
i can't believe next week is thanksgiving. where the hell did the time go. i have no idea what to buy anyone this year. i have no idea what i want for christmas. i don't really need anything this year. i wanna go to england, but i don't know when the bunnymen are touring so i don't wanna go until i can plan a trip around seeing a show or two... plus i like going with all my bunnymen friends.
i still wish i could find some way to live/work in liverpool... even if its only for a month or a few weeks or a few times a year or something. i just really felt a connection to that place and want to go back big time. though i know it will never happen. plus i know chris doesn't wanna live there. :P
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My mom is awesome and bought this for me!
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harmonyangel
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| Subject: | Scott drabble? |
| Time: | 10:34 pm. |
| Mood: |  surprised. | | Music: | Bruce Springsteen - Janey Don't You Lose Heart. |
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I think I just drabbled? I don't know, it's been so long since I've really written fic that this crept up on me.
Spoilers for Uncanny X-Men #504 ahoy. Scott/various, Emma Frost. 170 words.
( Really, spoilers, I swear. )
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| Subject: | Day in the Life |
| Time: | 9:16 pm. |
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| Subject: | Daily Tweets! |
| Time: | 6:34 pm. |
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lyssie
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| Subject: | in case you were all wondering. |
| Time: | 7:04 pm. |
| Mood: | cold. | | Music: | David Bowie - 5:15 Angels Have Gone. |
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Which you should be.
MY NINJAS ARE HAVING DINNER. They dusted this morning, and had a bath last night. (my ninjas are het, which makes me giggle something fierce)
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tiredfairy
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| Subject: | Yay! |
| Time: | 4:36 pm. |
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I just got super exciting (and slightly scary) good news. I have been accepted as a vendor at the L.A. Bust Craftacular!
I get a table to show off my wares and, you know, sell them. This weekend is going to be crazy busy! I have so much to make, and figure out how to display, eek!
But, this is very awesome and I was worried I wasn't going to go get in...so...YAY! If you're in L.A. or know anyone who is, tell them to stop by on December 6th (www.bust.com). I shall be selling Monster Girls, Fairy Sweets, and Skullies and Gribblies and all kinds of things!
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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boombangbing
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Hey, look I got tagged by kitten_of_rain! And I'm loitering around my flist, so I may as well post it now.
Tag 8 people to do this quiz & those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.
( Like a chain letter, in some ways. )
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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| Subject: | SHE-HULK CANCELLED DESPITE OUTSELLING HALF OF MARVEL'S CATALOG. |
| Time: | 11:55 am. |
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I had to wait a couple of days before I could post this because it made me angry the way Japanese whalers and tailgaters makes me angry.
Actually, I'm rather furious.
As seen in the Marvel February 2009 solicits, She-Hulk's book is cancelled.
But what REALLY pisses me off? Look at the solicit text:
SHE-HULK R.I.P.!
She's been savage. She's been sensational. She's been an avenger. She's been a lawyer. She's been a bounty-hunter. But there's one thing She-Hulk has always been, in all of her many series... cancelled. But it hasn't stopped her yet! In this oversized final issue, Peter David brings his run on the Jade Giantess to a close... but can Jen use her last remaining pages to save her friends from a truly mammoth threat? Catch her now, before someone turns her red!
Yes. That's how we learn that one of Marvel's three female-fronted books is cancelled: with insultingly chirpy good cheer. She's been cancelled every time! Look, look, it's happening again! We only had three female-fronted books out of Marvel's gargantuan catalog, and now one gets taken away with absolutely no explanation.
Would Marvel adopt such an obnoxiously frivolous cancellation tone with, say, the Captain America book? Or Amazing Spider-Man? Or Nova? No, I really don't think so. It's yet another nauseating example of a publisher not supporting a strong female character who has a BIG fanbase.
That's how respectful Marvel is of its readers, particularly its feminist and feminist ally readers, which is to say not at fucking all.
When we learned earlier this month that both Birds of Prey AND Manhunter were cancelled, at least DiDio had the (relative) class to try to address the cancellations. ("Relative" is important here, since I do not happen to think that the "classy" should ever appear in close juxtaposition to "Dan DiDio." You've no idea how much it pains me to say that Dan DiDio has done anything better than Marvel editorial.)
So where did the impetus for cancellation come from? Was it due to low sales? Many people are citing statistics that show that the She-Hulk book was outselling numerous other Marvel titles.
Let's take a look at those sales figures, shall we?
In August 2008, She-Hulk ranked 62nd amongst all titles (DC, Marvel, and other publishers). The Shulkie book outsold, for example:
Captain Britain
Marvel 1985
WONDER WOMAN (Wonder Woman is DC, but wow, GO SHULKIE!)
Iron Man Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Ultimate Fantastic Four
Black Panther (no surprise, since Hudlin's Panther is atrocious)
Runaways 3
Moon Knight
Punisher
Iron Man Viva Las Vegas
NYX
X-Men Origins: Jean Grey
Squadron Supreme
Immortal Iron Fist
Ghost Rider
Punisher War Journal
Eternals
That's right. Peter David's She-Hulk outsold MATT FRACTION. Jen's book outsold a huge slew of very high profile other Marvel and DC books (including Birds of Prey AND the Ambush Bug mini; the Ambush Bug mini was sold out at every LCS that I visited trying to find it).
In In September 2008, She-Hulk outsold:
Ms. Marvel
Squadron Supreme
Wolverine Annual
Marvel Apes
Punisher War Journal
Punisher
Moon Knight
Ms. Marvel Annual
Wolverine Saudade
Ghost Rider
Eternals
X-Men Origin: Beast
Immortal Iron Fist
Iron Man: Golden Avenger
NYX
New Warriors
Twelve
X-Men: Return of Magik
Wolverine First Class
Genext
Amazing Spider-Girl
And, again, a whole shitload of other high profile Marvel AND DC books.
Age of the Sentry was, if you will recall, very heavily hyped, as was Marvel Apes. The She-Hulk book almost outsold Captain Britain and MI:13 (less than a hundred copies difference).
In October 2008, it's the same story: She-Hulk OUTSOLD Marvel Apes, New Exiles, Ghost Rider, the Sub-Mariner mini, Amazing Spider-Girl, Wolverine First Class, Age of the Sentry, etc., etc.
So how's the writer of the book taking it?
Peter David isn't happy:
I've known about it for a couple months but didn't say anything because I'm not big on making with the bad news.
I have to admit, I'm shocked. Shocked. The market has always been so supportive of books with female leads, and She-Hulk has never had a title canceled out from under her before, so I could never have seen this coming.
Sarcasm, folks. It's what for breakfast. There are almost eighty comments to his blog entry from likeminded fans.
So how are the fanboys and fangirls taking it?
The Boards at CBR went BALLISTIC. Seventeen pages of anger and the page count is still growing. Peter David weighs in a number of times over here, too.
Lingster over at one of the bigger She-Hulk fan sites is very, very unhappy. Lingster hasn't liked Peter David's run on She-Hulk from the beginning, and frankly, I pretty much agree with him, but that does not mitigate the slap in the face to Shulkie fans.
Here's what makes me want to take a metaphorical baseball bat to Joe Quesada and Tom Brevoort's knees: THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON FOR THE CANCELLATION. She-Hulk is an A-list Marvel character; she's not third tier like the Runaways or the Young Avengers or even a solid B-lister like Nova or Moon Knight. She's an A-list character who has been on every high profile team in the Marvelverse except the X-Men. Her book has been, under various writers during Sensational She-Hulk and during Slott's Shulkie volumes I and II, more fun than all of Marvel Adventures put together. More fun than Iron Man, more fun than anything Bendis does, more fun than Liberace in a sequined showgirl outfit serenading Fred Phelps.
Although Peter David is an A-list writer who has done insanely magical work on other books (such as the Captain Marvel book and, obviously, on the Hulk books), I didn't particularly like Peter David's handling of She-Hulk when he took over writing duties from Dan Slott, and apparently neither did the fans, because sales did start to dip a bit. But to CANCEL the book outright without trying to salvage it? No intervention? No Come to Jesus™ talk with Peter David about how it may not have been a good idea to magically have Shulkie morph from a happy and very intellectually fulfilled woman - a woman who could have any man in the WORLD on her arm - to an angry and bitter bounty hunter? No attempt to bring back her old supporting cast after Peter David pointlessly gutted it?
You know what burns? That Peter David was FINALLY starting to steer the book back on course and have Jen be fun again. I'd just started to have hope again that She-Hulk might actually crack a smile before 11:59 PM on December 31st, 2008.
You know what threatens to drive me insane here? That Jeph Loeb may get ahold of Shulkie for his bullshit over in the Red Hulk book.
Goddamn you, Marvel. Goddamn you to the goddamn bottom of the goddamn Marinas Trench.
Here's the cover to the very last issue of She-Hulk that we'll probably be seeing for quite some time:
*sigh*
Anyone who tries to argue that this cancellation isn't informed by a degree of pervasive and subtle sexism is going to find me using their heads for kickball practice. Don't even start with us. Because one of the things that will inevitably be overlooked here is that Shulkie is an absolutely AWESOME role model compared to 99.9999% of other female comic book characters.
She-Hulk:
1. Has no wildly dysfunctional family issues
2. Doesn't have rape or sexual abuse as a defining part of her identity or background
3. Has never been Refrigerated™
4. Takes no shit from Men. Period.
5. Is totally comfortable with her body - do you know how RARE that is?
6. Never talks about having to go on a diet
7. Never worries about how big her ass is
8. Never lets a man define her
9. Is a karaoke queen
10. Is totally comfortable with her sexuality
11. Never sits at home waiting for a man to call; if they don't call quickly, she's already moved on to someone else and is completely HAPPY with this
12. Has an intellectually demanding career and never dumbs down ANYTHING
13. Will knock your ass seventy city blocks if YOU try to dumb down anything for her;
14. Will knock you out PERIOD if you patronize her
To know that I have no green glamazon waiting for me every month at Comic Relief is incredibly depressing.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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cassu_bean
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| Subject: | I love the smell of colouring pencils |
| Time: | 9:49 am. |
| Mood: |  crazy. | | Music: | Soil - 'cross my heart'. |
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I had another face-palm moment at work yesterday. I thought I was working Tuesday and I turned up to work that morning to find out that the other Cass was working. I was told I was working Thursday instead and so went in yesterday. I thought that I had been the one at fault and accidentally written the one wrong shift day down on my calendar which is now more confusing since there are two people with the same name working at our store. But I get to work yesterday and look at the roster and I was supposed to be working Tuesday originally. My Tuesday shift had been crossed out and I'd been given a Thursday one instead without anyone telling me about the change. I don't mind this happening but assuming I know about a shift change is lame since I usually write all my shifts down as soon as they go in the roster so I can plan my week around when I'm working. I'm going to suggest to Thomas that we do what a lot of places do and get staff to sign their shift times when they've seen them so if they do need to be changed we can be told.
Rowan and I got our Wii yesterday! We played it for a couple of hours and then logged onto WoW and did an instance with Dale which was really damn fun. I was my first instance run as a Death Knight and my god it was awesome. *ahem* But onto the Wii, we got an extra Wiimote and Nunchuck and of course Wii Sports came with it as well as Carnival Games and we got Mario Party. We also got the Identity Pack since I wanted a pink Wiimote cover. I suck at Wii Tennis so hard! Rowan also asked me last night what sort of cake I wanted for my Birthday and I am honestly stumped. Usually I just go for what I think everyone will like or what's at the local grocery store. So right now I'm looking through the Cheesecake Shop website to get an idea of what a want and maybe make a decision so we can ring up to have one made for me. It's so hard with so many yummy looking dessert all over the site!
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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alchematrix
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| Subject: | Hahaha Part 2 |
| Time: | 4:42 pm. |
| Mood: |  amused. |
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This comes courtesy of the fantabulous casey_leigh...
Anyone ever play that "MASH" game when they were young and silly? The one where you write down names of guys you like, places you want to live, etcetera, then choose a random number and go through eliminating choices until it spells out your "future"?
There's a site that has one, so I did such! and as I do happen to have my pet Canadian, I put in all fictional fellows for the future spouse part. ;) Cute NPCs from WoW. And some other WoWish choices.
( We are on a strict timetable! )
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nique
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| Subject: | *bangs head on desk* |
| Time: | 4:43 pm. |
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Gave up on finding ten sources. It's not going to happen. I'll take whatever penalty I get--I don't actually care, since I don't even have to PASS this class. I only took it to keep my job an extra semester. Which, haha. Ended up not even being worth it.
Open Office thinks every word I type is misspelled. This is going to be an issue. :P
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captainsavvy
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| Subject: | "I am one of many, many more to come' |
| Time: | 5:09 pm. |
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Check out this awesome new song from the Smashing Pumpkins
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boombangbing
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| Subject: | Tweets for Today |
| Time: | 8:41 pm. |
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Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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