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lilacsigil: John Byrne art of Destiny and Mystique, caption "Destined" (destiny mystique)
Thursday, August 7th, 2014 07:52 pm
Two new lots of comics to give away! I will post anywhere in the world. Feel free to let other fans know about this if you think they'd like anything.

1. Excalibur, the excellent Warren Ellis run. Issues #87-105, missing #98 and #103, but with the Dream Nails and Soul Sword stories intact. Lots of Kitty Pryde, Pete Wisdom, Moira MacTaggart, Kurt Wagner, Rahne Sinclair and Douglock!

2. West Coast Avengers, the original 4 issue miniseries from 1984, plus issues 5, 9 and 19 from the ongoing series that followed. Watch Hawkeye put together a team of Avengers based in Los Angeles! Also features Mockingbird, Tigra, Wonder Man, Iron Man and lots of excellent 80s fashion like short denim shorts (for Simon) and woolly thigh-high legwarmers (for Greer).

Not claimed from the last round:

Vertigo: Shadows Fall, six issue miniseries, complete. Very early 90s Vertigo style urban horror, nice art.
lilacsigil: Jean Grey, Marvel Comics, "On Fire" (phoenix fire)
Monday, July 28th, 2014 08:42 pm
I'm cleaning out a lot of comics while we move house and I would rather pass them along to fellow fans if anyone wants them. Happy to send them anywhere for free. Feel free to let other fans know about this if you think they'd like anything.

Today's offerings:

X-Men: Emperor Vulcan, five issue miniseries, complete. Great for fans of Rachel Grey, the Shi'Ar, or wacky X-Men space adventures. Also good for fans of Vulcan but I don't know if there are any.

Vertigo: Shadows Fall, six issue miniseries, complete. Very early 90s Vertigo style urban horror, nice art.
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lilacsigil: Black Widow with sights on her (black widow)
Saturday, May 5th, 2012 05:59 pm
1. How can a movie with three great, snarky, equally treated, badass, competent, smart female characters so utterly fail the Bechdel Test?

Many Avengers Spoilers )
lilacsigil: White Tiger, Daredevil, "heroic" (white tiger)
Friday, December 15th, 2006 09:11 pm
Now that we're getting our comics once a fortnight, rather than once a month, I thought I might post the occasional comic review here. No spoilers!

White Tiger is a Marvel limited series by novelist Tamora Pierce and her partner Timothy Liebe. It features Angela Del Toro, the former FBI agent last seen in Daredevil as she comes to terms with the powers she has inherited from her late uncle, and tries to define what her responsibilities, abilities and limitations might be. Shortly after her partner, Agent Driver, was killed, Angela resigned from the FBI over their treatment of Daredevil. She then turned to him to begin her superhero training. This series continues her story as she engages with the complex New York superhero community, tries to find a new job that will use all her skills, and investigates the murder of her partner and a new threat that may be related.

It all sounds very serious, but in fact White Tiger is a very fun, smart comic. Angela has little experience with the superhero life, but she has years of FBI and martial arts training, not to mention an analytical mind, to keep her on the right path. She uses her contacts, both FBI and superhero, fights everyone from muggers to drug dealers to scary supervillains with determination and strength, and deals with the inevitable mistakes and annoyances with (mostly) good humour. Angela may not be a born superhero, but she does have a fine sense of justice and an excellent list of contacts. The cameos from various Marvel characters are great: they give a wonderful sense of community among the superheroes, something that the whole New Avengers and Civil War carry-on is sorely lacking.

I only tend to pay attention to comic art when it's exceptionally good or bad, so I'm not giving an in-depth critique when I say I enjoy the art by Phil Briones and Don Hillman. If you want to see how a superheroine can be sexy but not sexualised, this is the comic for you. White Tiger's costume, designed by David Mack, is practical (apart from the colour, as White Tiger herself mentions!), intimidating, hot and visually exciting. (My icon is from the beautiful David Mack cover for the second issue.)

The first two issues have been a real treat, and I hope the rest of the series lives up to this standard.
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lilacsigil: Jeune fille de Megare statue, B&W (Default)
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 08:20 pm
I've neglected to post my Yuletide fic. It was for Elektra (the movie). Comic fans, this is not the canon you're looking for.

The movie itself was very strange. The acting was oddly good, the plot was nonsensical even by comic-movie standards, and the design was really beautiful. Watching it with the intent to absorb every detail meant that I could submerse myself in its universe and its strangely compelling characters. This is not a movie I could watch in a cynical mood: I'd have to pick it to pieces. Also, it features a character who may be the only non-annoying kid sidekick ever.

If you haven't watched the movie, it's pretty much explained in the story. If you would like to watch the movie, this story contains SPOILERS for its peculiar plot. Rated PG or so.

Force the Future (Four Seasons) )
lilacsigil: Jeune fille de Megare statue, B&W (Default)
Thursday, March 31st, 2005 10:09 pm
The fine people at [livejournal.com profile] comica_obscura suggested that we might like to fulfil requests that were not granted in the challenge proper. When I sent in my story, I volunteered to pinch hit, and a few characters were thrown at me. I wasn't required in the end, but it did give me a story idea.
This is for Seanan, who I don't know in the slightest, but who wrote a magnificent Fables fic.

And, for the first time I've written in the Global Frequency fandom, here's Aleph in
Babe in Toyland )