Comics! And things!

But mostly comics! :D :D

So, I went down to ye local comic book shop today and picked up the new Detective Comics and also Runaways 11. And then got it signed (Detective Comics, not Runaways) by Greg Rucka. Who was there! Signing things! HELL YEAH.

I was the only female in the shop aside from the lady behind the counter, who told me 'way to shake the genders up a bit.' Yay? Normally there are more women in the shop, I was kinda surprised.

Greg was there kinda sorta for Pride Weekend - Zeus Comics is an award-winning queer friendly shop and is the owner is gay himself (In Dallas! I <3 my comic shop) - and Detective Comics #854 features not one but *two* awesome lesbian ladies: Kate Kane, aka Batwoman, who's taking over the LEAD ROLE FROM BATMAN who is missing or in a coma or dead, idk (I stopped following that part of DC continuity when the Battle for the Cowl started, yeesh. All I know is that Dick's taken up the batmantle), and RENEE MONTOYA, aka The Question (v2), aka MY FANGIRLING, LET ME SHOW IT TO YOU. And Rucka is the author and notably queer friendly.

Also, he usually writes stories about women that do not suck! Detective Comics, in fact, is so low on the sucking that some might mistake it for awesome. The art is *amazing,* Kate is well characterized, and the writing is great. Renee's not in the same story arc here (and the art is different but also really good) - she's got her own minicomic tacked on to the end of Detective Comics (ala Booster Gold and Blue Beetle, aka at least DC's not totally ignoring these beloved characters, the fuckers). It means less screen time (only eight pages!), but what was there was a very good start.

In fact, gimmie a minute, I'm going to go back and read it again.

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( Back! Now, as for Runaways... )

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Okay, the original purpose of this post was to talk about two *other* comic book series (well, okay, one comic title and one manga) - Blue Beetle and Hayate Cross Blade. Two of my favorite things *ever,* y'all need to get in on this.

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( Blue Beetle )

It's past midnight and I have Pride shenanigans to get up to tomorrow - will convey unto you the fantasticness that is Hayate Cross Blade at a later date. Night, folks!

Some stats, some fic

I... I just saved my 1100 fanfic to my delicious account. I have had said delicious account since April 8 2008, just over a year, which makes for... what, 73 fics a month? 2 fics a day? On average and with really sloppy math? Yikes.

There are *still* fics in my LJ memories that I haven't moved over.

I have 133 fandoms tagged. The top five are Merlin (177), the Marvelverse (77, shush, it totally counts as one fandom), New Trek (59), SG:A (53), and Torchwood (36). This makes sense, seeing as Merlin was the first fandom I really got into *after* getting the delicious account - I saved things as I read them.

The first fic I saved was SGA: City on the Edge of Forever, the pilot by synecdochic (SG:A, gen) She wasn't just provisioning an expedition. There was a very good chance she was equipping a colony.

The tenth was A Stare Like Yours by vituperatist (Bleach, Yoruichi/Soi Fong) Yoruichi moves like a cat in bed, which didn't come as much of a surprise, all things considered.

100th: Untitled by lupercali (Harry Potter, Remus/Sirius) "Moony attempted to make sweet love to the piano, one of its legs has been forever claimed. If I took it away, all hell would break loose," Sirius said smoothly. "I wouldn't want to deprive you of your one true love."

500th: Can You Picture That? by cofax7 (Supernatural, gen) Tickle-Me-Chucky was going *down*.

1000th: Hearts Are Won, Empires Fall by lozenger8 (Psych, Shawn/Gus) Shawn loves Gus. He love, love, love, love, loves him. Adores. Loves to the power of googolplex and one.

And the 1100th: just wait for it by seperis (Merlin/Smallville, Lex/Arthur, Merlin/Arthur) What the fuck, Merlin thought in utter shock, staring at Uther--Uther--across a rich mahogany desk in rural Suffolk, fate was like a bad Hollywood remake, then?

Yay, fic!