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kitty_goth; he and julietk had just seen me in London Bridge but I'd failed to respond to their attempts to hail me. What makes this newsworthy is that I was at home, in my pyjamas, watching Mystery of the Wax Museum. Between that and the horse-drawn hearse outside my door this morning, it's all getting a bit King in Yellow.
(Mystery of the Wax Museum lurks unmentioned on the House of Wax DVD; I've no idea why they didn't trumpet it, it's exactly the sort of extra which DVDs of old films should have, when the director's dead and the deleted scenes long-junked. It's also a fine corrective for anyone bleating fashionably about Hollywood's 'current' fondness for remakes; in places, the 1953 film follows the 1933 scene for scene, and though I was never before aware of Lionel Atwill, it seems clear that Vincent Price took him as a model for his performance. What's strange is the way in which the earlier film often seems more modern - the female lead is a mouthy, boozy reporter rather than the hysterical flatmate of the missing girl, for instance, and the weak-willed assistant is here a junkie rather than an alcoholic)
Britain's government seems to stand alone at present in being prepared to admit that the Treaty is now dead. Well, alone among those in power, anyway. Elsewhere they're clinging to the mantra of "giving all countries the opportunity to express themselves", perhaps in the hope that once everyone has voted No we'll have forgotten the first results and they can start asking again and this time they'll get the answer they want. I can't work out if this is Ministry of Truth-style denial, or just the sort that comes with outraged bereavement; either way, I hope the European publics will respond with the appropriate contempt. Newsnight quoted mutterings of a "Eurozone meltdown" and a 5% chance of at least one country leaving the Euro. This could be beautiful.
In the hope of some clues to Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers and because stupidly OTT Silver Age crossovers are one of the few pleasures in which I will admit I feel some shame I've been reading the third Crisis on Multiple Earths collection.
Potentially important points:
The Soldiers have been cast through time in their battle with the Nebula Man - clearly a version of Neh-Buh-Loh, just as the Star Conqueror was a reworked Starro.
As a result, nobody on Earth-1 remembers them ("Who in blazes are the Seven Soldiers of Victory?"). I *think* this may be DC's first acknowledged retcon - as in, the first time when it was a story point rather than an editorial convenience that the universe's history had been altered.
Post-Crisis and Zero Hour, none of this ever happened.
Of the current Seven Soldiers, only Zatanna appears - and again, she loses her powers. There's also the original Shining Knight, but he seems totally different from Morrison's version.
There are actually eight Soldiers.
Unimportant but amusing points:
The threat against which only the Soldiers can stand is the Iron Hand's threat to fist the Earth.
The original Oracle was a beardie cosmic type, not Batgirl in a wheelchair.
The story after the Seven Soldiers one features android replicas of the Third Reich, which are right behind zombie pirates when it comes to inherently ace concepts.
To those of you who used my poll yesterday simply to be nice to me, my thanks, and to those who used it just to be happy, my congratulations. For the rest of you:
666inmyheart: I wish I could answer either question, whether for you or as regards myself.
mrs_leroy_brown: Understood.
rentaghost31: Gladly!
p_dan_tic; kiss_me_quick: Your questions have little in common except this answer; gladly, should the situation arise, but I see no particular reason that it should.
jamesward: I know you are, but what am I?
offensive_mango: That's a tricky one; the main thing which gave me pause was the bit about the holidays.
hairyears: That joke isn't funny anymore.
verlaine: You know how I feel on that one; she can be brutal, but I've yet to find anyone else quite her equal.
sparklepbass: Because you are teh gheye. ;)
miss_newham: I generally find it's neither, just tiredness or lack of practice. Do something which keeps it active!
You know how church services helped spread the Plague? Seems Bibles help spread MRSA too.
kitty_goth; he and julietk had just seen me in London Bridge but I'd failed to respond to their attempts to hail me. What makes this newsworthy is that I was at home, in my pyjamas, watching Mystery of the Wax Museum. Between that and the horse-drawn hearse outside my door this morning, it's all getting a bit King in Yellow.(Mystery of the Wax Museum lurks unmentioned on the House of Wax DVD; I've no idea why they didn't trumpet it, it's exactly the sort of extra which DVDs of old films should have, when the director's dead and the deleted scenes long-junked. It's also a fine corrective for anyone bleating fashionably about Hollywood's 'current' fondness for remakes; in places, the 1953 film follows the 1933 scene for scene, and though I was never before aware of Lionel Atwill, it seems clear that Vincent Price took him as a model for his performance. What's strange is the way in which the earlier film often seems more modern - the female lead is a mouthy, boozy reporter rather than the hysterical flatmate of the missing girl, for instance, and the weak-willed assistant is here a junkie rather than an alcoholic)
Britain's government seems to stand alone at present in being prepared to admit that the Treaty is now dead. Well, alone among those in power, anyway. Elsewhere they're clinging to the mantra of "giving all countries the opportunity to express themselves", perhaps in the hope that once everyone has voted No we'll have forgotten the first results and they can start asking again and this time they'll get the answer they want. I can't work out if this is Ministry of Truth-style denial, or just the sort that comes with outraged bereavement; either way, I hope the European publics will respond with the appropriate contempt. Newsnight quoted mutterings of a "Eurozone meltdown" and a 5% chance of at least one country leaving the Euro. This could be beautiful.
In the hope of some clues to Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers and because stupidly OTT Silver Age crossovers are one of the few pleasures in which I will admit I feel some shame I've been reading the third Crisis on Multiple Earths collection.
Potentially important points:
The Soldiers have been cast through time in their battle with the Nebula Man - clearly a version of Neh-Buh-Loh, just as the Star Conqueror was a reworked Starro.
As a result, nobody on Earth-1 remembers them ("Who in blazes are the Seven Soldiers of Victory?"). I *think* this may be DC's first acknowledged retcon - as in, the first time when it was a story point rather than an editorial convenience that the universe's history had been altered.
Post-Crisis and Zero Hour, none of this ever happened.
Of the current Seven Soldiers, only Zatanna appears - and again, she loses her powers. There's also the original Shining Knight, but he seems totally different from Morrison's version.
There are actually eight Soldiers.
Unimportant but amusing points:
The threat against which only the Soldiers can stand is the Iron Hand's threat to fist the Earth.
The original Oracle was a beardie cosmic type, not Batgirl in a wheelchair.
The story after the Seven Soldiers one features android replicas of the Third Reich, which are right behind zombie pirates when it comes to inherently ace concepts.
To those of you who used my poll yesterday simply to be nice to me, my thanks, and to those who used it just to be happy, my congratulations. For the rest of you:
666inmyheart: I wish I could answer either question, whether for you or as regards myself.mrs_leroy_brown: Understood.rentaghost31: Gladly!p_dan_tic; kiss_me_quick: Your questions have little in common except this answer; gladly, should the situation arise, but I see no particular reason that it should. jamesward: I know you are, but what am I?offensive_mango: That's a tricky one; the main thing which gave me pause was the bit about the holidays. hairyears: That joke isn't funny anymore. verlaine: You know how I feel on that one; she can be brutal, but I've yet to find anyone else quite her equal. sparklepbass: Because you are teh gheye. ;) miss_newham: I generally find it's neither, just tiredness or lack of practice. Do something which keeps it active!You know how church services helped spread the Plague? Seems Bibles help spread MRSA too.
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Date: 2005-06-03 10:41 am (UTC)And Barry, you KNOW the answer to my question should have been "I can't answer, I can't answer that"
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Date: 2005-06-03 10:43 am (UTC)Memo to self: obtain some Bros for LYE.
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Date: 2005-06-03 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-06-03 10:54 am (UTC)(Given which, it's amazing how much longer it took me to realise that I might not be entirely straight)
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Date: 2005-06-03 11:02 am (UTC)I cannot betray Marti.
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Date: 2005-06-03 11:04 am (UTC)I would gladly betray him if I'd ever been fool enough to swear allegiance to him in the first place.
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Date: 2005-06-03 11:17 am (UTC)shout, come on and let it out
Date: 2005-06-03 11:31 am (UTC)Re: shout, come on and let it out
Date: 2005-06-03 11:33 am (UTC)Re: shout, come on and let it out
Date: 2005-06-03 11:36 am (UTC)Re: shout, come on and let it out
Date: 2005-06-03 11:41 am (UTC)Re: shout, come on and let it out
Date: 2005-06-03 11:41 am (UTC)Re: shout, come on and let it out
Date: 2005-06-03 11:43 am (UTC)Didn't he try a comeback a couple of years ago?
Re: shout, come on and let it out
Date: 2005-06-03 12:11 pm (UTC)We give thanks to thee oh lord high god of popular music for tw@tting this berk back to the bottom of the pile.
Re: shout, come on and let it out
Date: 2005-06-03 11:41 am (UTC)He does get some props for calling the attempted comeback 'All The Money's Gone', though.
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Date: 2005-06-03 10:36 am (UTC)Hur hur hur.
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