Meeting people the Jean Paul Valley Way
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scans_dailyLong time readers will remember that I consider women in medieval armour a strong aesthetic, as showcased when Wonder Woman encountered a time displaced Iron Maiden, Valda.
And in Sword of Azrael, Dark Knight of the Soul (the one shot that collects the back ups from Urban Legends, not the just-released #1 of a 6 part mini series, which I haven't got round to reading yet), there's another one!
The Summary
Azrael is working in a hospice doing end of life care.
He is also hunting bad guys in his spare time.
But somebody is killing bad guys...and somebody else is resurrecting them for a short time with something like Lazarus resin
A shadowy figure, wielding a polearm, watching our hero? That can't be good!
Meet Poor Fellow! (The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon is the full name that the Knights Templar's mothers use when they are in BIG trouble). Poor Fellow's job is the destruction of Lazarus pits, and if she can kill a few drug dealers, then all the better.
Azrael calls her a killer and a Zealot, and they fight!
How does it end? (Hopefully with Poor Fellow going home and getting a proper chestplate, without tits)
"As if that wasn’t enough, twin-bulged breastplates ignore the anatomical makeup of the female breast itself. To make a long story short, the breast largely consists of fat and modified sweat glands (for the production of milk, that is), and hence it’s not nearly as solid as a comparable mass of muscle. So all but the largest breasts can be bound quite flat against the woman’s chest without occasioning too much discomfort. In turn, this means a fighting woman probably isn’t going to need a breastplate with a chest profile larger than one worn by a fighting man of a similar height and general body shape, and therefore it’s quite likely that the woman would simply fit into the man’s breastplate with the aid of some padding to make up the slack in the waist and shoulders."
If you want to find out, buy the book!
And in Sword of Azrael, Dark Knight of the Soul (the one shot that collects the back ups from Urban Legends, not the just-released #1 of a 6 part mini series, which I haven't got round to reading yet), there's another one!
The Summary
Azrael is working in a hospice doing end of life care.
He is also hunting bad guys in his spare time.
But somebody is killing bad guys...and somebody else is resurrecting them for a short time with something like Lazarus resin
A shadowy figure, wielding a polearm, watching our hero? That can't be good!
Meet Poor Fellow! (The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon is the full name that the Knights Templar's mothers use when they are in BIG trouble). Poor Fellow's job is the destruction of Lazarus pits, and if she can kill a few drug dealers, then all the better.
Azrael calls her a killer and a Zealot, and they fight!
How does it end? (Hopefully with Poor Fellow going home and getting a proper chestplate, without tits)
"As if that wasn’t enough, twin-bulged breastplates ignore the anatomical makeup of the female breast itself. To make a long story short, the breast largely consists of fat and modified sweat glands (for the production of milk, that is), and hence it’s not nearly as solid as a comparable mass of muscle. So all but the largest breasts can be bound quite flat against the woman’s chest without occasioning too much discomfort. In turn, this means a fighting woman probably isn’t going to need a breastplate with a chest profile larger than one worn by a fighting man of a similar height and general body shape, and therefore it’s quite likely that the woman would simply fit into the man’s breastplate with the aid of some padding to make up the slack in the waist and shoulders."
If you want to find out, buy the book!
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Date: 2022-08-05 03:24 pm (UTC)Oh look, another hot take on Catholicism. This is fresh and original. Like a retelling of the Arthurian legend where Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table are all squalid and evil.
Edit: ...I did it again didn't I. Maybe I should change my profile name to Mr. Negative.
I'm familiar with Azrael/Jean-Paul Valley, the catholic/templaric imagery iconic to the character, and his stint as Batman. It was never my favorite. I don't have a problem with the catholic iconography or overtones inherent to the character, except that Azrael never really seems to end up being about a badass dude struggling with his Urge to Kick Ass and being really good at it vs. being a devoted adherent to the teachings of Christ. Like, somehow that all seems to get lost in the flash and fiery swords.
As a note: there always seems to be a lot of of John Milton mixed into this stuff too, and Paradise Lost seems to have become the literary equivalent of a gray goo scenario, it shows up and absorbs everything around it into itself. I am sick to damn death of John Milton.
At this point it might be a literary exercise to write a story about Lucifer or Catholicism or Anglicanism/Episcopalianism/British Christianity that specifically EXCLUDES Milton as much as possible and see what you get.
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Date: 2022-08-05 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-05 05:51 pm (UTC)*reads*
Well. At least it isn't Milton-infested. I'll give it that.
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Date: 2022-08-05 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-05 04:13 pm (UTC)'*WhErE iS sHe?!*'
'*WhY dId YoU sAy ThAt NaMe?!*'
And so on.
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Date: 2022-08-05 04:21 pm (UTC)Loud, but muffled.
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Date: 2022-08-05 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-05 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-05 10:25 pm (UTC)Somewhere in the multiverse Taser-Face is suddenly feeling a LOT better abuot his name.
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Date: 2022-08-06 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-06 04:47 am (UTC)