I'm in Seattle. Guess where I went for dinner n Friday night?

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There are a few of them by me, but I havent gone for the longest time...

Over my rotting corpse. I hate that little pigfucker.

--G.
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...you really *must*, as that's the most vehement I've ever heard you.

"It's difficult keeping up with the cross-continuity, but I think Cosmouse just gave The Saturnian Scraphunter his Ultimate Pacifier to use against Galactapuss..."

I'm having a day like that letter Hunter S. Thompson wrote to the people who were producing the Rum Diary movie, which was at the time in Development Hell (it finally came out last year, long after Thompson's death, 13 years after the novel's publication, 50 years after it was written). The one in which he describes the process as a "waterhead fuckaround". That's sort of what I think about almost everything* they've done in the Batman franchise since Whatever The Fuck The Most Recent Last-Crisis-Ever Was Called. It particularly irks me that they kept the little fucksack when the Great Upfuck gave them the perfect excuse to pretend he never existed.**

I guess I simply do not see the value in having a Robin who is actually evil while in office. At least Jason Todd wasn't evil when he was Robin. Kind of a cock, yes, Jason was always that, but not an actual, knife-carrying, murder-oriented Obvious Villain. It's like Clark Kent shacking up with Lex Luthor's secretary.

Boy, I guess I've kind of ruined the tone, huh? Please go back to Post Zero and enjoy the jokes again now.

--G.
* exception: Spoiler Batgirl
** like they seem to be doing with Spoiler Batgirl - you may perceive a pattern
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Not only that, but they kept his lame ass and got rid of what I, personally, think was the best thing to happen to the bat books since Killing Joke (the intrepid and utterly badass Ms. Cain as Batgirl)

To get back on the original thread, however, the deadpan "I know" was fantastic, and the "You apparently have a chance" thing was brilliant.

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-Pasha
What was that feeling again?
Oh yes.
-Rage-

Indeed, I have a great love for Cassie, though she doesn't necessarily have to be Batgirl to receive it. They had already kind of screwed that gig in the ear for her before Evil Lad came along anyway.

Sometimes I feel like UF is a no-kill shelter for characters the professionals have failed...

--G.
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Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

I really miss Steph. In my mind, NuDC is Earth-Whatever, and Steph is still swinging around Gotham, kicking people in the face, making jokes with Babs over the radio and failing to remember her inside voice.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

You know...

Wait right there a few minutes, I'll be right back.

--G.
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"This is the city: New Gotham, Kane's World. Sixteen million sapient beings crammed into a few square miles of concrete and steel. The majority of them are just trying to get through another night without getting stabbed. Most nights, I help a few of them out with that. I carry a ba - "

"Miss Stephanie, to whom are you speaking?"

"Alfred! Shh! Narration happening here."

"Ah. I do beg your pardon. Perhaps you might not leave your comm system in voice-activated mode."

--G.
"Are we on VOX?!"
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*GUH-SNRK!* ... Glad I wasn't drinking anything...

Thanks, Gryph. Now I got a mental image of James Lovell's face photoshopped over Steph's going, "Are we on VOX?!"

Black Aeronaut Technologies Creative aerospace solutions for the discerning spacer "Murphy never sleeps, but that's no reason to poke him with a sharp stick."

It's not my fault you did it backward...

--G.
Batgirl - in - spaaaaace!
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It's because my mind's gone. Been that way as long as I can remember. Hell, people often ask me if I'm drunk when I haven't touch a drink in months.

Black Aeronaut Technologies Creative aerospace solutions for the discerning spacer "Murphy never sleeps, but that's no reason to poke him with a sharp stick."

Well, see, there's the thing. There may well be bits out there that do so indicate. I do not, a priori, disbelieve such a possibility. It's just that they're not the bits I've seen*, and under the circumstances, why would I go seek out more of his appearances in a bid to achieve greater understanding? That's like trying to achieve insight into the effectiveness of anesthesia by volunteering for some dental work without it. :)

--G.
* I will admit that he was pretty funny in Batman Vol. Whatever #1, post-Great Upfuck. "He just needs it to know who you are, Drake."
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(Others include Jaime Reyes, his ENTIRE supporting cast, Static, Bart Allen... actually, now that I think of it, pretty every single DC character below legal age, whether they have powers or not. Including Billy Batson.)

Heh, Geoff* and I have wanted to do something with Jaime and the gang for years now. We just haven't found precisely the right slot for the module yet.

--G.
* Depew, not... that other guy.
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Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

And Brenda. Let's face it, those guys are lost without Brenda.

I think I may love Brenda more than anyone else in that cast. I mean, the issue where she teams up with Lonar of the New Gods? Tellin' you.

--G.
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Jaime Reyes is the current Blue Beetle in the DCU. Wikipedia has a good summary of his history.

Peter Eng
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(I have some, of course, but I know better... )

Back when I was employed, I said to Gryph that I thought he'd love Blue Beetle, even though Guy Gardner showed up (and also that he'd actually like Guy's appearance). I decided that I would prove this and bought him the first three trades, sending it to him in Maine.

This is why we need to find a slot for that bunch. I keep thinking - like DC did - we should have him join the Titans, if only because:

a) they get the whole 'and now my life is weird' thing

and

b) most of them would be fairly chill with Paco and Brenda hanging out too, because they probably would get roped into Lex and Querl's Rebuilding This Stuff Days and maybe those two would come out of the garage a little more.

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Also, Brenda would actually call them Pinky and the Brain.

--G.
one is a genius, the other's insane
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I can only assume they take turns.

As was pointed out to me when the original cartoon appeared many years ago, one being a genius and the other being insane does not technically preclude the vice-versa also being true. :)

--G.
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"The frequency needs to be an exact integral multiple of the cosine, or it'll go all wibby wobbly, nope won't work, not scary at all, POIT!" - Second best pinky line ever.

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�They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.�
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington

She's the only tech superhero I can think of off the top of my head who builds comic timing into her equipment. That's worth about 40 points right there.

--G.
"My suit doesn't do friction. How did you - " "Magnarangs." <ZRRKKT> "Actually electro-magnarangs." <BLORP> "OK, you got me - technically electro-magna-gooperangs."
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Or her fight against Livewire.

"You're fast, but you're not faster than LIGHTNIIIiiiinnnnng..... Guess the suit there is insulated, huh?
"Apparently. Every night's a new adventure, you know?"

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To be fair, that's how I first encountered the song as well. But let's be honest: Cassandra Cain? Not white; not nerdy. :)

--G.
... and my homies agree I really look good in black, fool!
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There's a 'mowing the lawn' joke to be made somewhere in there...

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-Pasha

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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

Oh, just Google him

Source Material Ferret is go!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Terry%20Waite%27s%20allotment&defid=973052

Potential squick factor on this one, boys and girls. Your mileage may vary.

Black Aeronaut Technologies Creative aerospace solutions for the discerning spacer "Murphy never sleeps, but that's no reason to poke him with a sharp stick."

You know, I didn't intend to imply that you had to do this every time someone makes a reference. That shit's gonna get tedious, is all I'm saying. :)

--G.
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I just need to work some stuff out.

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"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

While it is entirely conceivable that the IPO has more than one female vampire on staff, odds are Lu is in fact referring to Saya and not, say, Mina Murray, or Josie Maran from the "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" video.

--G.
What? I love that video.
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