Year: 2003

Joy supreme. A thread in which I won’t be accused of being sexist, man-hating, copycatting, etc. Brand new “Angel.” Pacing was a bit too leisurely, but that’s minor. Still one of the best shows on the air.

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I informed DC about the discussion over “Dangerous Curves” (a phrase I still like, by the way) and referred them to this site in case they were interested in possible alternatives. “Femme Noir” strikes Dan Didio’s fancy at the moment, although there’s no certainty yet what they’ll go with.

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It used to be nice and simple. I’d click on the bookmark and it would take me right into my AOL folder on the Comics and Animation Forum.

Then AOL “improved” it.

Since then, getting to my AOL folder is the most cumbersome task I undertake in the course of a day. Each step of the way takes four, five, six tries before it works properly. Otherwise I just get a blank screen and have to backtrack and start over.

Perhaps they’ve arranged it this way to “force” me to upgrade. I don’t do well with “forced.” What it might force me to do is dump AOL altogether because it’s getting just that irritating.

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Just to remind everyone there’s an actual book…here’s the Brian Stelfreeze cover for issue #2.

Has anyone been reading this series? What a fun book. I picked up the first three issues at the recommendation of John Ordover, who told me it reads like something I’d’ve written. Considering one of the characters has a superhero identity called “Archetype,” which was a short story of mine that appeared in F&SF several years ago, I’d agree. But that aside, it’s a fun concept: It’s about a nuclear family where the father is a costumed superhero…and the family doesn’t know…and the mother is a vampire hunter…and the family doesn’t know…and the eldest daughter spends time in another dimension as a sword and sorcery princess…and the family doesn’t know…and the youngest son is overseeing an alien invasion of the earth…and the family doesn’t know. And as of issue #3, the storylines start to intersect.

It’s a CrossGen title under the Code 6 imprint.

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I’m recommending to Glenn that, if it isn’t a massively difficult thing to set up, we institute a password procedure for postings. I hope this wouldn’t pose a major inconvenience to folks. There is, of course, the simple alternative of forbidding any follow-up responses, so it’s just me, but I’m not *that* in love with the sound of my own voice (or, y’know, typing.)

The tragic aspect is twofold: That it would be due to the actions of essentially one person, and that it’s *exactly* that sort of inconvenience that the jáçkášš gets his jollies from. Since he’s on AOL, we’re going to explore the possibilities of tracking him down and getting him thrown off the service entirely. Meantime, please bear with us. I want this to remain a forum wherein people can interact rather than just see what I have to say. I was warned that if we allowed feedback, precisely this kind of thing could happen. It’s pathetic to see that it has.

And again, just so there’s no confusion: It’s not actually Brian Bendis causing all this trouble. The gutless creep naturally hides behind someone else while he hides in his parents’ basement causing this stuff.

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Due to a particular loudmouth who can’t take a hint and proceeds to use our website to break a couple of laws, we’ve had to ban him from posting, probably taking a lot of other AOL users with him in the process. If you are one of the folks banned from commenting, we apologize.