Shankie's House of Guns & Spandex

Well, that last post was depressing as hell, so, here's something a little more uplifting from the JLI era. :D

Random scans from Justice League Quarterly #1-3, #5, #8, & #13. Justice is serious business.



Or not.

( Every time I meditate I see Oreos. )

Also, I'm watching Touched By An Angel. It's about the angels trying to stop John Wilkes Booth from shooting Lincoln, which is some sort of weird sub-theme of my life for some reason. It's everywhere I look. It's funny, I never noticed how terrible this show was when I was a kid. Those fake beards and bad make-up aren't fooling anyone.

From the four-shot Martian Manhunter series published in '88, which was weird because it was written by DeMatteis but it was a dark plot I mostly didn't care for. Except for the great moments when J'onn goes to Batman when he needs a friend, and Batman is happy he did.

The last pages were my favourite part, and answers a question most people wouldn't really ask; how do Martians dance?

( I dance with the past... )

That makes me smile.

A lot of the stuff that's been keeping me busy more or less have begun resolving themselves, one way or the other and my dial-up internet has decided it'll stop being completely retarded and settle for just slow as hell. I guess I can live with that; I guess I'll have to, right? Yesterday I downloaded a 14MB file in only an hour and cheered.

This morning I went back into my Writing folder and began actually doing stuff in there, at the same time playing with a new toy; Jer's Novel Writer, a Mac program that works like yWriter (which I've also tried, some time ago); a word processor designed for working on long fiction projects. It's got all sorts of nifty features for keeping track of stuff, margin notes, outlines, a built-in character/place/whatever database and such. Those of you who write longer pieces might want to check out working with that kind of software, it's looking to be all kinds of useful so far.

This book is so great; if you haven't read it, jeeze. Do that. And everything else Darwyn Cooke has anything to do with, while your at it. Like, The Spirit. :D

There's one part in particular of this story that gets me; Agent Faraday's attempts to capture both Barry and J'onn. Though the two don't interact much during or after directly, indirectly they end up influencing each other hugely. Mostly through television.

It's starts innocently enough, them moves swiftly through unsettling and eventually into... heartwarming, actually.



( It's a trap! )

Barry genuinely forgiving him makes me smile.

Like the best books tend to be, this one makes everyone great, giving everyone from Jimmy Olsen to The Phantom Stranger moments of total awesome. But for me, Barry and J'onn steal the show in this one.

( Kinda a slob or not... )

Barry Allen is love. :D