Google found the one person who might look saner while wearing Google Glass.
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Agents of SHIELD Trailer for ABC
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Is Gunn Luke Cage?
Gunn is Luke Cage isn’t he?
Gunn if definitely Luke Cage.
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Tumblr, cool your jets.
Game of Thrones isn’t real.
I don’t wish bad things on the fictional character of Sansa Stark.
I don’t “hate female characters” because I point out that a character I like has a history or wilfully ignoring obvious facts about the men she going to marry.
Swapping “Loras” with “she” to make a thats what she said joke isn’t homophobic, it’s a joke about a made up man and his made up Grandmother in a fictional world.
I drew a joke cartoon, it wasn’t all that funny. I never said it was.
Calm down and stop sending me stupid messages.
This goes double for you if you want to complain about some culture I’ve “appropriated”. Especially if your own blog is filled incredibly poorly translated “beautiful Irish Proverbs”.
Seriously, if I can tell your Irish is bullshit then you are way, WAY, off the mark.
My first Game of Thrones idea was that Olenna Tyrell appears every time and innuendo is made.
Sometimes, even I find it hard to defend Sansa Stark.
(In other news, today I learned I can’t draw Sophie Turner)You find it hard to defend a 15 year old girl who is excited to finally be given a chance to escape the physical and emotional abuse she has endured and be taken to a place where she will be safe and married to a man who has been nothing but kind to her?
The joke of that scene isn’t that Sansa is excited to get away from Kings Landing, that’s the tragedy.
The joke is that Sansa continues to be blissfully ignorant of the fact Loras is gay, despite everyone from Shae up knowing every in and out of his sex life like he’s the Kim Kardashian of the Capital.
Sometimes, even I find it hard to defend Sansa Stark.
(In other news, today I learned I can’t draw Sophie Turner)
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It is 11:00 on a Friday night and I’m still working.
Step up your game and send me some stuff Tumblr.
The Movement.
I wanted to like this book so much.
I was a big Gail Simone fan right the way through her Agent X, Birds of Prey, and Secret Six runs, the latter of which being one of my all time favourite books. That said, her more recent output has left me cold, but when I heard she was writing a book billed as a response to Occupy Wall Street, it seemed like the perfect vehicle for aspects of Simone’s writing I enjoy most.
But alas, I was wrong.
Firstly, let me say that its not a bad book, it’s fine, in line with the majority of DC’s current output. But from Simone I expected something better, and certainly not something as conservative as this.
“Now hold on Adam,” I hear you cry, “this is THE Gail Simone we’re talking about, liberal firebrand of the comics industry, introducer of transgender characters and generally nice person right?” Right on all counts buddy, so cool your jets. When I say conservative I’m not questioning Simone’s leftie credentials, I’m talking about the mechanics of the book.
Lets backtrack for a second and talk about Young Avengers. It’s a good book, the art does a lot to enhance the writing but fundamentally Gillian is telling a fun story by imbruing the characters with a stylised teenage voice. It owes a lot, if not everything, to Joe Casey’s Vengeance, a messy, punky, fantastically inconstant, triumph of superhero world building and storytelling; which Gillian took, polished the hard edges off, and packaged as pop song.
Back on The Movement, I knew there was no hope of getting something as innovative and punchy as Vengeance, but I was hoping for a mass market friendly Young Avengers-esque/zeitgeisty fun-book. Instead it’s a bland, derivative book that could have been any grouping of “society doesn’t appreciate them and sees them as a menace” super types engaging in a small stakes rescue mission. Maybe it will grow into something great, but right now I’m not expecting much.
