http://seriousfic.insanejournal.com/ ([identity profile] seriousfic.insanejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-20 07:36 am UTC
Entry tags:char: big barda/barda free, char: mister miracle/scott free, char: oberon, creator: keith giffen, publisher: dc comics, title: mr. miracle
This is a very special story to me. Well, not really, but it is where I got my icon from.

Around the time of the Bwa-Ha-Ha League, Keith Giffen actually managed to get the greenlight on what was basically a sitcom revolving around Mr. Miracle and Big Barda, who were trying to lead a simple suburban life, complicated enormously by the fact that they were superheroes. Booster Gold and Blue Beetle stopped over, their neighbors got suspicious, there were the Robot Beatles (not robotic beetles, mind you)... fun stuff. It's not quite as good as Jack Kirby's characterizations, IMHO, but it's very hard to dislike. I mean, just look at 'em.



In today's installment, our intrepid heroes (and Oberon) are moving out of the suburbs to the big city. That's right, it's Moving Day (what can I say, Giffen likes this plot). As always, disaster, flirtiness, and banter ensue.







I love how Barda is reworking her old "oppress planets" energy into saving money on groceries. How much does the JLI pay them again?



That's Shilo Norman at the end there. We'll skip him, because you don't need proof that not everything Jack Kirby invented was genius, do you? "Yeah, let's take Mr. Miracle, then get rid of everything that makes him distinctive and likable." Meh.



That last panel was THIS CLOSE to being my preview image.



Ignore Scott's emo; he comes around. I love Barda's facial expressions and poses here. I think it's Kevin McGuire on art, in which case the title really lucked out. You could icon any of those panels and get icon love on any self-respecting DC comm.



The family settles in to watch Oberon's home video while Barda finally gets to try out her canned chili.

Oberon: Do you smell something?

Barda: Uh, sorry guys...




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[identity profile] parsimonia.insanejournal.com
2009-05-20 01:38 pm UTC (link)
Oh, and then you could have that episode where Booster and Beetle visit, and if that goes well, there'll be a Blue & Gold spin-off series!

DC really does have a lot of sit-com worthy characters and teams. It's kind of funny that WB/CW automatically goes for the ones that are least likely to work as a TV show, where cheese, camp or general silliness aren't going to be detractors.

"Lana is the descendant of Kryptonian witches"

See, the benefit of not having watched seasons four and five as they aired, is that I mostly just skipped right over those crazy bits.

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[identity profile] seriousfic.insanejournal.com
2009-05-20 01:57 pm UTC (link)
No live-action TV show is ever going to have the budget to give audiences the action they expect from summer blockbusters. Heroes is an A-list show and even they only show Sylar really slugging it out behind closed doors (I'm not kidding here, they do the literal "oh, what an awesome fight going on just off camera!" trope that South Park makes fun of). Birds of Prey could've remedied that by fixating on more down-to-earth action, but they tried to turn it into Smallville 2.0 with teen angst and a freak of the week.

The thing about Scott & Barda is they're more Moonlighting than Spider-Man. You could do five weeks of them dealing with comparatively minor threats/problems, then splurge on Barda having a city-destroying fight with Knockout or whoever.

Of course, if DC were listening to me, we'd have a Young Justice cartoon by now.

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[identity profile] psychop_rex.insanejournal.com
2009-05-20 11:40 pm UTC (link)
While I'm far from an expert on Smallville, didn't it go on the air AFTER 'Birds of Prey'? So it wouldn't be BoP imitating Smallville, it'd be the other way round.

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[identity profile] seriousfic.insanejournal.com
2009-05-21 02:52 am UTC (link)
Smallville started in 2001, Birds of Prey in 2002. In fact, I think BOP was one of the superhero shows trying to ride SV's coattails (back when shows would actually want to do that), like Aquaman and more recently The Graysons.

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[identity profile] psychop_rex.insanejournal.com
2009-05-21 03:06 am UTC (link)
OK, my bad. I don't have a TV hookup, so I'm not really up on these things.
Grayson actually aired? Really? I thought it was one of those shows that were announced but never actually made.

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[identity profile] seriousfic.insanejournal.com
2009-05-21 03:09 am UTC (link)
No, it set an impressive record for being canceled before it even got going. Even Aquaman got a pilot.

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[identity profile] psychop_rex.insanejournal.com
2009-05-21 03:30 am UTC (link)
Ah. That's pretty much what I thought happened, but I wasn't sure.

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[identity profile] jlbarnett.insanejournal.com
2009-05-20 08:20 pm UTC (link)
they weren't Kryptonian

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[identity profile] seriousfic.insanejournal.com
2009-05-20 08:27 pm UTC (link)
They had one of the Four Elements or whatever, so they were wrapped up in all of it. In fact, Kryptonian witches probably would've made more sense than actual witches who'd sworn a blood oath to kill Dean Winchester.

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[identity profile] jlbarnett.insanejournal.com
2009-05-20 08:30 pm UTC (link)
oh, you're talking something in Supernatural for some reason?

I thought you were talking about the time Lana was possessed and then she stuck the members of her coven into Chloe and Lois.

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[identity profile] seriousfic.insanejournal.com
2009-05-20 08:37 pm UTC (link)
No, it's just that the same actor played Jason Teague, who was a descendant of someone who pissed Witch!Lana off and thus she swore to end the Teague bloodline.

In a show about Superman.

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