Dinosaurs and Super Girls

maeinli:

So I know this moment:

Is played for laughs and it really is hilarious XD I mean look at his face!

But I also find it remarkably sweet that Kilowog just completely forgot that Razer isn’t a Green Lantern.

Because, I mean, it wasn’t too many episodes ago where he wasn’t letting Razer forget.

It wasn’t so long in terms of episodes, but it’s been a pretty long time in terms of the show’s universe. The first half of the season took place over a pretty definite period of a little more than nine months.

This second half feels like it’s been even longer, just from a few little tells, mostly revealed in “Lost”:

The science director of the Guardians appears to have traveled with Zox from Oa, with no assistance from the Interceptor, meaning that it’s been at least 18 months since the mid-season finale.

We know that the Interceptor was definitely not involved in their transport because the science director was so surprised (and displeased) to see Aya still functional.

So far as we know, the Interceptor is still the only ship capable of making the trip to the Forgotten Sector in less than 18 months, and Sinestro seems to confirm this when he talks about the Interceptor being the Guardian’s most advanced prototype. It seems that without Aya’s advanced A.I., it’s impossible to control the ship effectively (See also: Lanos.)

In general, there’s been a lot more episodic exploration in this half of the season, and, much like the first season (see this semi-breakdown of the first nine months), there’s a lot of time that’s unaccounted for, and a lot of mini-adventures that could’ve happened in the interim, investigating Manhunter spottings, analyzing anti-matter waves, and what-have-you. Basically, all the space hopping their little hearts could desire.

On top of that, I am of the opinion that Zox was probably on Oa for a little while before they began the escort back to Ysmault, to work out the details of the peace treaty and the reparations owed by the Guardians.

TL;DR: It hasn’t been many episodes, but it’s been like, two years since Kilowog met Razer, and probably about a year and a half since he stopped giving him shit about being a Red Lantern, haha.

But aside from all that, it is kind of absolutely adorable that Kilowog half-forgot that a green energy source would be completely useless to Razer. HE’S PART OF THE TEAM.

(via kattybats)

keyofnik:

DIES

Two stories:

When I was a junior in high school, we did these realistic drawings of gourds in colored pencil, and then had to take a copy of that drawing and insert it into an existing piece of art that we copied. I chose the bottom screen cap (or maybe the moment before it?) and it was hilarious, but now I’m not sure where it is and because it was rubber cemented on and this was 9 (ugh 9) years ago, the gourd has started peeling off anyway. (Boo.)
It actually always really bugged me how absolutely useless Sailor Chibi-Moon was in the anime, especially in S. She was always the comic relief and the damsel in distress, and I thought that that wasn’t fair to her as a character, because in the manga she actually kicked some serious ass. It wasn’t her pure heart that made her such an attractive target to Pharoah 90 — it was her Silver Crystal and her obvious power that he could feed off of.

I will admit that I…kind of trailed off with SuperS and still haven’t watched StarS, mostly because I got really annoyed with how much the stories deviated from the manga (I think that the original story of SuperS is probably the very best one of the entire series.)

But since this set of screencaps is from S, my point still stands that it’s not fair that Chibi-Usa is so ridiculously underpowered in the anime. She may be a senshi in training, but she’s still the heir to the new Silver Millennium, and she still has a Silver Crystal. In a lot of ways, I feel like Chibi-Usa was more powerful in R than she was in S. And that’s a damn shame, and totally the opposite of how it should’ve been. :/

(via eternal-sailormoon)

arcadysabo Asks:

Plus, you know, if Disney bought DC.... Just imagine the epic team-ups! Batman and Iron Man as PONIES saving New York City!

brikit Said:

True, true. Though I feel like Bruce would never willingly team up with Tony. They’re kind of opposite brands of stuck up jackasses that way. Dick!Bats, on the other hand…

arcadysabo Asks:

It is my fervent hope and desire that Disney acquire DC comics... Looking at how Disney is handling Marvel so far, I gotta say they seem to be doing pretty good work...

brikit Said:

Eeeeh, Disney’s “handling” of Marvel is debateable. They mostly just bought the label and left it the hell alone, wanting only its awesome movie profits (since, sadly, we all know the state of comic books themselves and their profitability on their own).

Kind of like when Hershey Foods bought the York Peppermint Patty company, or, a more recent and bigger aquisition, bought Cadbury Chocolate. They bought it and left it the hell alone, because why mess with a good thing?

Plus, DC is already owned by Warner Bros/Time Warner, and that would be a hell of a custody battle if Disney tried to buy them.

Man, I am really not sure what I think of giant ponytail Deathstroke.

Actually, I do know what I think.

I think it’s a remarkably tacky design choice in a show that normally shows an admirable sense of restraint, especially for superheroes.

But hey.

Shit happens.

Also: I am super amused that in the same week, Sinestro is voiced by Ron Perlman on GLTAS and Deathstroke appears on YJ. Because I’m a dork and, of course, Ron Perlman voiced Slade/Deathstroke in Teen Titans.

I thought this was an interesting question, and an interesting answer from Gail. It’s also a really true one, because in the last 15 to 20 years, comics really have been trying to diversify, with varying degrees of success.

What I really thought was interesting was the anon pointing out that comics have been around for nearly a century (if we’re talking New Fun/DC Comics or Timely/Marvel, yes, if we’re talking “comic books”, we’ve actually technically passed the centennial marker), but saying that in all those years, no one really thought about creating characters from Armenian, Portuguese, Cameroonian, etc backgrounds.

I’m not saying the anon doesn’t have a point — they totally do — but in the context of mainstream comic book history, it does make sense why characters of those backgrounds have never been spotlit. And it really comes down to the pure American nature of mainstream comic books.

Back in the mid-1930s, America was America, and American kids wanted to read about American stuff. A lot of immigrants to America wanted their children to be as American as possible, to fit in and make better lives for themselves by being American. And popular media reflected that. Not always in the most…accurate or…respectful way — but it reflected it nonetheless.

There’s another thing to keep in mind about the mid-1930s, and that’s the Depression. Most of the media was also reflecting a sort of escapism, because people’s lives were so bad and so shitty, and that’s what really made room for things like superhero comics. Kids weren’t doing too well either, and suddenly these larger than life heroes and villains were jumping out of the pages, taking them on adventures. It was a way better way to pass your time than thinking about how crummy everything was at home.

It’s not until fairly recently in comic book history that the publishers and writers have started thinking, “You know what? We do actually have a more global readership. We should probably start introducing more characters from around the world.” Just like it took them 30 years to go, “You know what? More than just white people are reading our comics. Maybe we should make some not-horribly-racist, not-white characters.”

Change is just slow, especially in an industry that thinks its lifeblood is in constantly rebooting a universe simply to retain those original incarnations of a character, instead of taking the opportunity to introduce some really cool legacy characters.

But I do like Gail’s answer, and I respect her efforts (and other authors’ efforts) in trying to diversify the mainstream comic book worlds.

I don’t know why, but I follow DC on my facebook feed, and this just popped up. I don’t even read Justice League, but this cover caught my eye for a number of reasons. The extremely secondary reason was, “Oh cool. Cheetah’s back in the DCU. That’s pretty nifty.”

The actual reason is that this cover just fails on all the levels a cover design can fail on.

Just watch me pick this apart.