Tomorrow is the defining moment of the century

Comics:
- Planetary
- Gen 13
- Stormwatch Volume 1/Team Achilles
- Captain America
- Teen Titans
- Outsiders

TV Shows:
- Once Upon a Time
- Grimm
- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Video Games:
- Mass Effect 2
- Kingdoms of (something that begins with an A--Avalon?): Reckoning

Stuff to re-
Read:
- The Authority

Watch:
- .hack//SIGN
- .hack//ROOTS

Play:
- Apollo Justice

Here's a list of all of the muses I have, and where I've played them, if anywhere. I tend not to get too many of them, but every so often a new one pops out of nowhere. I'll try to keep this list as up-to-date as possible, but given my previous track record with this... no promises.

Last Updated: January 4, 2012
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Scrooged with Bill Murray. My family watches it every Christmas.

We also have to watch Home Alone every Thanksgiving.

I'm working on new icons for my Damian journal, and this is the result. Icons are from Batman and Robin 16-22, and Batgirl 17. The two fanart pieces are from here and here.

( Icons under the cut )

Woody from Toy Story, definitely.

But from Ray Peterson The Burbs is a close second.  I'm not one for comedies but I like that one.

Huh, so I just found out that the group that made my profile code deleted their journal--and the images that made up my profile box.  That kind of sucks.  I wonder what happened--I really like their designs.

Anyone know any good profile code/layout communities? Found a nice one by noveltybox 

In other news, my paid subscription ran out.  It's spectacularly bad timing, as it ran out pretty much the day I was furloughed for a month, so I have no real disposable income to renew it.  I guess I'll just have to wait until August.

Thank you New York, for finally doing something positive in that senate chamber. I've grown so used to you just sitting there bitching at each other, but you can actually get stuff done if you want to. Some of you conservatives can even see past your own views to vote for the right thing.

Thank you, for giving me some sort of hope for my government again.

Thank you for voting for marriage equality.

I was curious, with DC claiming their new line would be modern and diverse, just how diverse their releases have been so far, so I broke them down.

Note: Certain characters (like Deadman) I listed as white, as he was white before he died.  Same with Swamp thing and Frankenstein.  Feel free to argue with me on them.  And I have Batman in Parenthesis because he's in like 80 different covers.  I listed him once, then in parenthesis from then on, so the original number represents how many different characters there were, while in the parenthesis shows how many total were depicted on covers.

 

( So how diverse were they? )

If you know the names of these characters, or if I mislabeled someone, please let me know.

So I've been following the reboot/relaunch whatever thing of DC's, but it became hard for me to keep track of all the titles they were coming up with.  For my ease and for everyone else, here is the complete list of the announced DC titles with their covers, writers, artists, and blurbs.  The GL Corps, Red Lanterns, and The New Guardians never released their #1 covers.

( The big list under the cut )

So my immediate reaction was "wow, this is going to bite them in the ass" followed quickly by "DC never learns, do they?"  But now that I've had a few days to mull it over and read the releases and such since, I think I've settled on a reaction.  I feel jipped.  I haven't been into DC as long as I have Marvel (not that I've been into either very long), but I've been reading a lot of current and older issues and developed a lot of feelings for certain characters.  A lot of these characters have been released in the last five years, and they seem to be the characters DC is going to dump as soon as they hit the redo button.  This seems to be especially true for the batfamily.  Cass had already been cast aside by the DC writers for years before FINALLY being brought back...  Almost to inevitably be tossed aside once again, as they give roles to the old favorites.  Same will go for Damian, and Steph, who are finally finding their stride in their respective titles.  The Secret Six isn't one of the most popular titles DC has, and although it has a strong fanbase, it's not that large.  That and DC doesn't seem to be fond of anything other than happy or self-deprecating superheroes, they'll probably get dumped too.  DC has always hated Jason Todd, and since they brought him back they have had no idea what to do with him, so he will inevitably get tossed again too.  No official word on Jaime, but as DC keeps claiming to be "diversifying," he should be all right.  Same with Gavril who appears to be on the new JLI team.  God knows what they'll do to Booster.

Basically, it makes me wonder why I've invested in these characters at all, since they plan on redoing everything anyway.  Why should I bother picking up any issues until September?

And why announce the JLI at the end of Generation Lost at all if it's all part of their bold new reboot/launch/whatthefuckever?