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Showing posts with label Dysfunctionality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dysfunctionality. Show all posts

February 15, 2010

Wednesday is the New Monday, Which is the New Sunday, But Just For This Week.

Happy Ides of February to all. My computer caught fire this evening during the recording of our program, and additionally our house was raided by monsters, and also Evie's sick.

Due to scheduling conflicts we can't do the show tomorrow, but we will make another attempt on Wednesday, meaning you'll all get two ABCPs in the span of four days, which is pretty great.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

Now everyone wish Evie well, and come Wednesday, we'll have a show chock full of good stuff, including a special message from Marvel Comics and a new e-mail contest with the most fantastic prize ever.

Hint:

See you on Wednesday!

September 25, 2008

Uncleuncleuncleuncleowuncle

Ok I know we're supposed to focus on comics up in here, but a million more people read this blog than my erratic, topically-void site where I would normally post this stuff (because it's erratic and topically void), and I want to make sure you had the opportunity to see this if you haven't already. Then when it's done you can pour pixie stix in your eyes and watch Leonard, Part Six to ease the discomfort.


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August 8, 2008

Brand New Drainpipe

You know (if you listen to the podcast) how my Crap of the Week was the the deaf old lady upstairs and her role in the destruction of my kitchen, because no disaster or poor editorial judgment in comics could possibly rival them? Well, the situation has escalated to a level at which I would seriously consider any offers from Mephisto to eradicate it. If I'm a raving bitch on the show this weekend, or I claim not to know who Aaron is or that I'm married to him, you'll know why.

June 13, 2008

Special announcement!

If all goes well, Monday(ish) will unleash the first episode of the highly anticipated Awesomed By Comics Podcast! Highly anticipated that is by my husband Aaron and me, who have talked half-assedly about starting it up for some months. Also, I told a friend about it and he thought it was cool. Anyway, we now have sound effects and a theme song recorded and everything, and we just have to say some stuff. We were going to do the whole thing Saturday, but realized we should do a segment after we see the Hulk movie on Sunday afternoon, hence the (ish) on the Monday objective. I still gotta finalize the hosting and syndication and crap, so I don't want to pretend that will take five minutes.

Aaron is actually a Professional Radio Personality, and I am a highly skilled loud person, so it should be entertaining, at the very least in the car-wreck sense. Please check back, and feel free to bring your own hazard flares.

March 28, 2008

L-A-M-E

I don't really think it's necessary to add more commentary to the whole marvel_b0y nonsense (a supposedly disgruntled low-level Marvel employee who may or may not be a marketing stunt), but if a commenter on this post is right and the prankster is Brian Bendis, let me just add my unique nuanced analysis that is just the most stupidest thing ever. Bendis is obviously the guy who put cupcake frosting in the weird girl's hair in junior high and she didn't notice ALL DAY and dude it was SO HILARIOUS.

February 18, 2008

Beginning with the end

Seeing as this is ABC's first post, I think I'll start by busting up any assumptions one might have about a girl writing about comics, and dive right into a blame analysis of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones' breakup in New Avengers #38. Ha ha, see what I did there? But really, Luke and Jessica are two of the most emotionally real adults in mainstream comics, and their argument captures every main tension of the clusterfuckery that is the current Marvel Universe.

A brief-as-I-can-make-it recap: The winners of Marvel's Civil War were Ironman and those who wanted superheroes to register with the government for accountability; hence, a group of heroes who felt it was a violation of civil liberties went underground. Ironman and his Mighty Avengers are the legal crew, Luke Cage and the New Avengers are fugitives, everyone still fights bad guys. In one very intense New Avengers-bad guy battle, Luke and Jessica's baby was very nearly killed. Terrified and desperate, Jessica ran with her baby to (Mighty) Avengers Tower, begging for asylum and registration. Luke finds out, is horrified and crushed that she betrayed everything they'd been fighting for, and confronts Jessica outside (to avoid arrest, obvs). Jessica says dude, get over yourself and your "principles," which by the way have always been dumb, just come inside and sign up and you can have us back.

If I've learned anything from relationships, and I have, it's that one of the most common but counterproductive behaviors is to do something that you know will upset your partner, and then convince yourself that, due to his/her myriad character flaws and/or recent errors in judgment, your actions are fundamentally your partner's doing. Even if what you did was justified for any number of reasons, it's easier to get indignant than to formulate a rational case. What I'm getting at is that Jessica, I think, has some groveling to do. Now before you're all "WTF? She had no choice!!", let me say "You're right." When your baby is put in mortal danger as a result of your life choices, unchoosing those choices may be a good idea, and going to Avengers Tower was the right decision under the circumstances. But by doing so, she obliterated everything she and Luke and the other fugitive superheroes stood for. Meaning that Luke was going to feel betrayed and spaz more than a little. So she would have been wise to bring the "I'm so sorry honey, I had no choice," not the "I've been humoring you, but really you should just compromise all of your principles and stop all this foolish prancing in the shadows." He's Luke Freaking Cage. He had rough anal sex with you on, like, page three of your introductory series. He's not going to hug you and ask Jarvis to make his favorite soup cuz he's movin' in.

But, of course, she did what real live people do, people who may or may not be Skrulls at this point, which is concoct a black and white scenario that puts her in the clear and doesn't allow for negotiation or contrition. From the little I know about writer Brian Michael Bendis, I can sort of imagine that he has arguments like this a few times a week, maybe where he thinks he's always the Luke but is most of the time the Jessica. But I project.