April 2007

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Last night, I posted the Batman fanfic I’ve been talking about to Fanfiction.Net: Batwoman.

Despite the title, it has nothing to do with Kate Kane.

Teen Titans Season Three

So, my friend and I have been working our way through the very reasonably priced season sets for the animated Teen Titans. We just started on the recently-released third season, and this prompted some thoughts:

  • The second episode of the third season involves an unnamed, never unmasked person stealing the high-tech “Red X” costume Robin used in the first season when posing as a super-villain. Now, I’ve always held that cartoon-Robin is some weird mixture of Dick Grayson (the first Robin in the comics) and Tim Drake (the third and current Robin), but in this episode he is definitely Tim Drake, because “Red X II” is so, so Jason Todd (the second Robin).
  • Most amusingly, the writers were clearly aware of this, as that is in Beast Boy’s list of possibilities as to Red X’s identity.
  • Related, cartoon-Robin is no mere Robin. He is the Goddamn Robin.

Now, I should probably work on writing something anime-related before this becomes a comics blog instead of an anime blog.

Status Reportage

The below-mentioned Batman fanfic has been finished and posted to the FFML. Once I see the response, if any, and revise appropriately, it’ll get posted here and other places.

Now I can get back to work on One Hundred Days. And maybe even some content for this blog.

A Couple of Links

One Hundred Days is way behind schedule, I have plenty of non-fanfic-related things I should be working on, and there’s a lot of stuff I vaguely want to write up for posting here.

…so why I am I writing a Batman fanfic that’s rapidly expanding to be many times it’s original projected length, if I can ever get past the fight scene between [SPOILER REMOVED] and the Joker?

Because my muses are easily distracted and insistent. Grumble, moan, whine.

PS. It isn’t a fight scene between the Spoiler and the Joker, as hilarious a meta-joke that would turn my attempt to avoid spoiling the fic’s ending into.

Recent Naruto Manga

  • What’s the difference between the first chapter of a fanfiction I’m not going to read more of and the latest story-arc in Naruto? One swiftly and clumsily eliminates old characters, introduces a host of new characters including a new love interest for a pre-existing character, in a burst of enthusiasm boosts said pre-existing character to new, unrivaled heights of power with little regard to explanation or logic, and generally fails to generate any interest in where the story is going. The other I frequently encounter on Fanfiction.Net.

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