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[selenak]

Considering the week of the Potterdämmerung has started: please don't spoil me. Seriously.


Buffy meta: an essay about Giles during season 7


And here is why I'm glad that, despite the intriguing beginning, I didn't continue with Fables: Arabian Nights. Having distrusted Willingham ever since he had a go at my beloved Thessaly from Sandman, I'm not that surprised.

On to better things, to wit, Dr. Who fanfic:

A spare bed at the Chestertons is a brilliant answer to the question where the Doctor and Martha lived during their weeks in in 1969. There were the very first companions of the First Doctor to look up , after all!

Come back to tell you all is a great portrait of the Third Doctor from regeneration to regeneration.


And more meta: Wartime morality on Dr. Who analyzes just this.

Comments

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Having distrusted Willingham ever since he had a go at my beloved Thessaly from Sandman, I'm not that surprised.

Was that this miniseries with the frog monsters ("Witch for Hire" it was called I think)?

I gave up Fables after one issue, since I really disliked the Big Bad Wolf. Seems that wasn't such a bad idea.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

He wrote two miniseries, Witch For Hire was the second one, I think, and I hated them both.

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

I think I liked the cover art. The story itself was a definite case of "So you didn't understand this character."

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I think the only one allowed to write Sandman spin-offs should be Mike Carey.

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

*ponders* I vaguely remember reading parts of "The Morningstar Option," but I fear my seething hatred of the main character (the girl, not Lucifer) coloured my opinion of that series rather negatively. I take it he later on wrote a whole series with Lucifer as the protagonist?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

He did, though his Lucifer is quite often off stage in the later parts; like Sandman, you have a huge ensemble and multiple storylines. Rachel from the Morningstar Option doesn't show up again except for a single issue, btw.

However, the Carey-written Sandman spin-off I'd recommend first as a direct contrast to stuff like Witch for Hire is The Furies, which is about Lyta Hall post-Sandman. (Featuring, in addition to Lyta, obviously the ladies of the title, a scheming Greek god - Kronos, no less, though Carey chooses a different spelling - and a great cameo by Daniel!Dream.) It inspired an Angel/Sandman crossover (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1962559/1/Ouroboros) I'm still rather proud of.

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

However, the Carey-written Sandman spin-off I'd recommend first as a direct contrast to stuff like Witch for Hire is The Furies, which is about Lyta Hall post-Sandman.

*puts on list*

He did.

*puts also on list*

It inspired an Angel/Sandman crossover

*goes to read*

[harmonyangel.livejournal.com]

I personally adore Fables, but the Arabian Nights arc made me want to throw things and scream with rage. No story arc has been worse; thankfully, everything that has come since has been much, much better.

I've pretty much heard nothing good about Willingham as an individual, which is why I refuse to actually give him any of my money - I've read all of Fables through downloads and borrowing my friend's trades. Sadly, I love most of the characters too much to give up on the series (not to mention the fact that it's one of the best-plotted things I've come across in comics; the most recent issue tied back to things that happened dozens of issues ago). It makes me frustrated when awful people with the tendency to write things offensively/display offensive opinions produce things I can't help but love. Why can't good writers be good people?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Why can't good writers be good people?

I remember a magazine once quipping about the younger Romantic poets (i.e. Byron and Shelley) that "art shows us how to live, and artists how not to". Anyway, it's easier when they are dead (God knows, if Richard Wagner were alive and busy writing the same type of articles he wrote in his later years I couldn't bring myself to buy a single CD of his operas), and of course incredibly joyful if a creative person also happens to be someone we can respect, but sadly, yes, often there is a divide.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Wow, that Third Doctor story was good.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it just? It's from a great E-zine.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I'd read a few of the stories there, but never got round to finishing it. I really ought to make a point of doing so.