X-Men Legacy #22 - "Antibodies"

[laughing_tree]

"What’s funny is — if you ascribe to the view that the spirit of the Mid-80’s was all about reinvention and re-contextualization — I genuinely believe we’re in a similar period of adjustment right now. Things have become so intractable during the intervening period — genre conventions have solidified to the point of brittleness: endless diminishing returns, the proliferation of decompression, the inflexibility of conventional distribution models, all of that — that I really feel there’s a critical mass building-up to a beautiful realignment on the horizon. Genres, formats, moods, expectations — it’s all up for grabs. Given that Marvel have given me this opportunity — to do something deliberately different — I’m in love with the idea that the new Legacy title will play its own little role in that slow seismic shift." -- Si Spurrier

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Sin City: That Yellow Bastard, Part 2

[cyberghostface]

Disclaimer: As with the previous part, the main villain is a rapist/serial killer. There's also graphic violence/gore and some nudity.

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Silver Surfer #1

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Squadron Supreme #4: Change of Heart

[sagrada]

This is it. Where we get to the 'point' of this series of posts. The time where one character mind-controls another character to get what they want.

( Now, about that 'why?' )

The K-Metal From Krypton

[ozaline]

In 1940 Jerry Siegel produced a script for a Superman story that would have totally changed the character's status-quo not only would it introduce is first real weakness (K-metal), but it would have changed his relationship with Lois Lane forever. The story was drawn up but canned, possibly due to pressure from the producer of the Radio Drama (but no one is sure for certain). Only bits and pieces survived until Mark Waid found the original script in the DC Archives, he re-typed the script and eventually a version was produced online using the script and as much of the 1940s art that has survived.

Now let us take a look at a few pages of "The K-Metal from Krypton,"

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Art Ops #2

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The Beauty #4

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Catwoman: Relentless Part 3 + 4

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Crossed: Badlands #91

[superboyprime]

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Black Magick #2

[history79]

"Rowan is one of the more flawed protagonists that I’ve written in a long time. I saw something on Twitter, and I wish I could remember who said it and I wish I could remember the phrasing, but they were talking about how female protagonists are never allowed to have a significant character flaw in the way that male protagonists are. I haven’t thought about it enough to think of examples to refute that assertion, but I do think that we tend to walk a very careful line, writers and storytellers like myself, who are trying to be conscious of gender parity and ethnic parity and going on down the line. We want to see more diversity in work.

I know that for a very long time, there were certain things that I would not allow myself to do to certain protagonists. If I had a gay character, I wasn’t going to kill him. If you read the Kodiak novels, Dale Matsui was the safest guy in the series, right? Dale was out, he was happily in a relationship, and my politics are such that I wasn’t seeing that a lot and I certainly wasn’t going to get rid of the one guy who was there. That is, in its own way, a bigotry. What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we’re telling them about. We want to be fair to those characters, and those characters get to be people, they’re not defined by gender or sexual identity or ethnicity, solely. Those are elements of character, as I’ve said multiple times and I’m sure bored people to tears with it.

So getting back to Rowan, from the beginning in my head, she’s got some issues. She’s prickly. I’m not sure how easy she is to like. She may fall into that category of character where she’s a badass and you respect that, and you think it’s cool, but you’re not really sure if you’d want to hang out with her once you get to know her."

- Greg Rucka


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