Okay, so I was killing time on what seemed to be a bleak and dreary day, and then
this post came into my life and made everything shiny again. To summarize, Mikaal Tomas, a blue alien superhero (who is either gay or bisexual or not comprehensible within human paradigms of sexuality, depending on which comics nerd you ask, which is actually a good example of the kind of thing my co-maintainer and I discussed at length when trying to decide on a name for this community), teams up with Congorilla(a guy who got turned into a gorilla) and Rex the Wonder Dog (exactly what it says on the tin) to rescue a kidnapped gorilla scientist. Part of their story was awkwardly shoved into the widely panned
Cry for Justice miniseries, but editorial pressures brought the series to an end before the resolution of their mission. Their arc gets resolved in the
Starman/Congorilla one shot, where, in addition to rescuing the kidnapped scientist Malavar, they also witness the return of the previously fridged gay character Tasmanian Devil. Apparently, James Robinson, the same writer who had the character apparently killed off, had intended to reveal his survival at the end of
Cry for Justice, but, well, it was
Cry for Justice. As a bonus, TD is actually drawn to look sort of like a Tasmanian devil this time, to the relief of comic readers who know anything about RL Australian animals. Sure, there's plenty to argue about, but comics fans, as a general rule, like to argue about comics
a lot. And more than anything, this made me smile.
It's also reignited my interest in getting more superhero-related stuff in this comm. I think I'll be doing some proper posts later, but for now, have some links:
Batwoman and the Question have
a fan community at DreamwidthThe Question also has a community with her predecessor here at LJ.
question_dcDon't worry about Kate, she's got fans here too.
batwoman_fansAnd something for the Pied Piper fans:
piper_tricksterFor the Marvel lovers out there, Hulkling and Wiccan (and Hulking/Wiccan, of course!) fanworks can be found at
youngavengers and
ya_slash .