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Q: Why didn't Bruce bug or demolish all closed down toy factories, business with 'Two' on their names, or ruined amusement parks?
A: Because then he wouldn't have half a dozen pre-selected and pre-scouted highly likely places an escaped psycho could be hiding in.
Game theory. Sometimes the most effective short-term move just makes your opponent adapt better than you'd like them to (the obvious parallel is antibiotic abuse and drug resistance).
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Title: Beyond the Sixth Day
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG18 because of potential angst.
Spoilers: For Children of Earth
Summary: Three things that maybe happened afterwards.
Author Notes: More short notes than anything else.
Warnings: It's post-CoE.
( Spoilers for Children of Earth )
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Good Torchwood. Who'd have thought?
Won't leave you with a good taste on your mouth, and isn't meant to.
I haven't posted about the Warnings Issue, but if you haven't seen or been spoiled to it, do check with someone before watching it. Just in case. It didn't push the worst of my buttons, but YMMV.
ETA: In unrelated news, a happy birthday to Te.
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This is very much a draft, very much unhappy (I mean, look at the title), and very much inadequate. Beta-ish comments more than welcome.
Title: William at Auschwitz
Rating: PG13?
( He still seeks inside himself, only for himself, the phrase. )
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Batman #688 and Red Robin #2: Dick and Tim doing what they do best: being enthusiastically exuberant and doing the unthinkable in an orderly way, respectively. Dick is honoring the Mission out of his love for Bruce, while Tim is fucking the Mission sideways out of his love for Bruce. He should be very proud of both of them.
But I refuse to take at face value the recent behavior of Jason. That's crazy villain territory, not ex-Robin territory. And there's no fucking way Bruce left Jason the message that Dick supposedly replayed. No way. No-how. Not to Jason. He loved him too much.
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But this post isn't about that.
If you want to read about a very thinly veiled Superman figure losing it and becoming openly evil, Irredeemable (currently on its fourth issue) is what you want. It's fairly interesting, as far as the premise goes. It still isn't clear specifically why he went rogue, although there are some clues.
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Another unintended consequence:
The story says the fruit taught them their nakedness and instructed them in shame, and their father in anger sent them away.
The story is wrong.
The only knowledge the tree had kept was of death and time. As they realized there had never been a garden, their father wept for them.
Also, if I ever become a cosmic villain it'll probably go somewhat like this:
Since we cannot stop time
Let us end it.
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*frustrated headdesk* Not what I intended to write. Fuck you, Bruce.
Title: Final Crisis Aftermath: No Escape
Rating: PG13
Fandom: DCU
Word count: Damn'd low.
( Flames, darkness, despair. An eternal war devoid of innocents. Hell has all of those things. )
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Cable #16: I don't care much about the Messiah storyline as such, but the temporal back-and-forth between Bishop (who has graduated in my eyes to Major Badass because of this) and the Cable/Hope team-up is great. Just a reminder: Bishop killed the X-Men and turned history from that point into an apocalyptic wasteland just to deny Cable places to hide in the timestream. That's hardcore.
Daredevil Noir #4: Very good. Foggy is awesome in an Alfred-ish way. Fisk's speech was predictable, but the mini's ending was just perfect.
By the way, a panel from this week's Daredevil Noir #4, followed by a panel from this week's Batman and Robin #2:
( Alas. )
ETA: Deadpoool Merc With A Mouth #1 was fantastic (if you like Deadpool, which I very much do). And there's even a very transparent possible explanation for the "twist" at the end if you've been reading other Marvel titles recently.
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Moleskine notebooks don't make you more creative. Moleskine notebooks are stupidly expensive notebooks. Moleskine notebooks are just a way to say 'well, yes, I am a writer.' I don't need a Moleskine notebook.
I want a Moleskine notebook.
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General recs for Batman and Robin #2 (Alfred rules), Agents Of Atlas #7 (Jimmy Woo rules; I'd love to see a crossover with Star-Lord leading the Agents of Atlas and Jimmy Woo leading the Guardians of the Galaxy), Exiles #4 (multiversal lords, why hasn't anyone killed Pym yet? Really), and Secret Six #11 (which manages to be entertaining even when discussing abominable situations).
An special thumbs up for Fantastic Four #568, which manages to be actually interesting, and gives me suspicions about where this whole "Doom's Master" nonsense could be coming from. Maybe. And I have an stronger suspicion about where it's going to.
Thumbs down to Gravel #12. Show, don't tell.
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My last fic for the Multiverse5000 challenge.
Title: Conjunction
Fandoms: Star Trek (TNG), Firefly, Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Death, darkness, confusion. Nothing sexual or explicit.
Thanks to, in no particular order: hl, rynia, autopoiesis, outlawpoet, not_sally.
Word count: About two hundred.
( A last attempt at diplomacy in an universe gone mad. )
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Title: Conjunction
Fandoms: Star Trek (TNG), Firefly, Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Death, darkness, confusion. Nothing sexual or explicit.
Thanks to, in no particular order: hl, rynia, autopoiesis, outlawpoet, not_sally.
Word count: About two hundred.
( A last attempt at diplomacy in an universe gone mad. )
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I was trying to write the other day a column about the always cheerful topic "Direction In Life: I NOT HAS IT," only in a less self-indulgent (yeah, right), more generalized context. This fic was an unfortunate side effect of that attempt.
Title: Finis
Rating: PG13
Author Note: There's nothing wrong with the grammar of that phrase.
( The cause was the quantum computers that will become popular around 2023. )
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I admit it, I might be working on some personal issues here. It'll eventually go away, I hope.
I still say that I like Reed Richards. No, really.
Title: Observer's Effect
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Fantastic Four
Word count: A hundred words (purely by accident).
( How would cosmic radiation affect inadequately shielded humans? )
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Whose idea, exactly, was to locate the Baxter Building — essentially a high energy physics/weapons laboratory + high profile supervillain target combination — just in the middle of New York? I can easily see Reed "it worked for Hari Seldon" Richards doing something like that without even realizing it, but how much do the Richards have to pay in taxes to compensate having in your city the laboratory of a guy best known for a nearly catastrophic shield failure?
(Ok, so having him around is handy when somebody, e.g. Galactus, attacks NY, as everybody does sooner or later, but I still think it's a huge risk.)
(BTW, despite posts like these, I am growing more and more fond of the Fantastic Four, Reed included. It's just that the more attention I pay to him, the crazier he seems... and the more interesting as a character. He doesn't wear a mask and talks of himself in the third person, but on his own way he's crazier than Victor.)
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Pete Wisdom and Franklin Richards (not at the same time or in the same comic).
( Short spoilery elaborations. )
Oh, and I unexpectedly got to read Red Mass for Mars #3. I love this mini very much, even if Mars is Yet Again Another Superman Analogue.
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Title: Wild
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Dune/Firefly
Word count: About four hundred words.
Thanks to: tigerbright and cesy.
Posted here for archival purposes. Official post here.
( Time has its own rhythm. )
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