He/Him, Cis, Gay, British, Old fart, Probably not as cynical as appears
Mostly comics, with mutant/technorganic selfsoulfriends and swashbuckling, acrobatic (and frequently imperilled) heroes as specialities, Also cartoons, toys, anime and whatever else catches my eye.
Basic rule - Don't be a dick... unless you can be Dick Grayson, in which case be Dick Grayson because, paradoxically, he wouldn't be a dick,
Bear in mind, this is a LOT more than just the singing from "The church on Ruby Road"... a LOT more.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. People who the time and talent to do this sort of thing disturb me more than a little. If they ever tired of doing this, god alone knows what they might achieve!!
I thought she was younger again, since she's now sort of involved with Beast Boy, who was always a few years younger than Dick and the rest of the Titans.
Not that she couldn't be older than Gar, but I didn't think it was by that much.
i'm not caught up with modern comics how is damirae even a thing? isn't raven dick's age??
Raven and Damian's romantic relationship was built up in the animated DCAMU Teen Titans movies. They made them closer in age to put them on the same team. But yeah, Dick and Raven should be around the same age based on TNTT ages. Outside of TNTT, Raven's age has fluctuated, making her younger than Dick. I thiiink she's probably back to being around the same age as Dick in current comics though.
In 1985, one of the only persons interested in an interview with a “new” writer called Terry Pratchett, after his publication of the Colour of Magic, was one Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman was writing for Space Voyager at the time. "The Colour of Pratchett" was the name given here:
It ran exactly one page inside the June/July issue of that year. The interview took place in a Chinese restaurant in London.
Here is Neil many years later holding that issue. You can see it here if you want. Warning: extremely emotional video.
Neil arrived wearing a grey homburg hat. “Sort of like the ones Humphrey Bogart wears in movies” he later wrote. (Before saying that in fact he did not look like him, but like someone wearing a grown-up’s hat). Terry Pratchett, photo courtesy of one @neil-gaiman, was in a Lenin-style leather cap and a harlequin-patterned pullover. At this point, Terry was already a hat person, although not that hat.
Terry offered Neil this : "An interview needn't last more than 15 minutes. A good quote for the beginning, a good quote for the end, and the rest you make up back at the office"*. (Terry Pratchett had worked many years in journalism by this point ).
But the meeting went terribly well. The two of them realized they had "the same sort of brains". So well indeed, that in 1985, Neil had shown Terry a file containing 5282 words, exploring a scenario in which Richmal Crompton's William Brown had somehow become the Antichrist. Was a collaboration in the cards as of that moment? Not really. But Terry found in Neil someone to whom he could send disks of work in progress and to whom he could pick up the phone sometimes when he hit a brick in the road of his writing.
Terry loved it and the concept stayed in his mind. A couple of years later, he rang Neil to ask him if he had done any more work on it. Neil had been busy with The Sandman, he had not really given it another thought. Terry said, "Well I know what happens next, so either you sell me the idea or we can write it together". **
And as you know, unless you’ve been living in Alpha Centauri, the rest is history. That was the beginning of what would become William the Antichrist and later would get the name Good Omens:The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. (Title provided by Neil Gaiman and subtitle by Terry Pratchett).
William the Antichrist being a direct inspiration of the 1976 film The Omen. If the baby swap had just been a little bit messier and the kid had gone off somewhere else he would have grown up as somebody else. “And then there was a beat and I thought, I should write it, it will be called William the Antichrist” says Neil. ***
“The first draft of Good Omens was a William-book. It was absolutely in every way it could be a William book. It had Violet Elizabeth Bott, it had William and the Outlaws, it had Mr. Brown”.
Over time they realized that they would have more creative freedom if they in their own words filed off the serial numbers. William and the Outlaws becoming Adam and the Them.
But the spirit of Just William was never far away.
The joy for Neil was to construct “perfectly William sentences”. The one when Anathema tells Adam that she has lost the Book, and he tells her that he has written a book about a pirate who became a famous detective and it is 8 pages long… that’s “a William sentence”.
Good Omens was also inspired by a particularly antisemitic moment in The Jew of Malta and John le Carre's spy novels. (Neil’s ask)
(Here are some slides of mine where I go into some other details concerning the origins of Good Omens).
*Quote: from Terry Pratchett A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins, but said by Terry of course.
** All the quotes, facts listed here : see above.
***all other quotes by Neil Gaiman from various interviews and asks I’ll link.
“Use your gifts and your talents to greatest possible effect while you can. Spread joy wherever possible. Laugh at jokes. Tell jokes. Make puns and bugger the embuggerances. Read books. Read my books. You might like them. You might find something else you like even more than them. Look for these things in life.
Question authority. Champion good causes. Speak out against injustice. Do not tolerate bullies or bigots or racists or anti-intellectuals or the narrow-minded. Use your education to challenge them. Broaden their perspectives. Make the world you interface with a happier place.
These are your choices. Choices you have been fortunate to have been given, so don’t waste them while you have them. Don’t look back in years to come and wish you had grasped a fleeting opportunity. Grasp it now with both hands, Live. Strive. Love.”
from A Little Advice for Life taken from ‘Terry Pratchett: from birth to death, a writer.’
—Sir Terry Pratchett; April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015
One of the greatest compliments I've ever received is that I resemble Sam Vimes.
Saying things like that should immediately render you ineligible for any government position.
It looks like Trump has found his dream Attorney General in Mike Davis, a man who hates democracy almost as much as he loves putting kids in cages. If you thought Bill Barr was bad, just wait until you see what this guy has up his sleeve.
Davis, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, has worked in all three branches of the federal government and even helped confirm Brett "have you boofed yet?" Kavanaugh. But apparently, that's not enough power for Malevolent Mikey. He's on record saying he would toss journalists in "the DC gulag," and "I'm going to be Trump's viceroy of D.C. because I don't like democracy. I want more authoritory powers." That makes sense — fulfilling Trump's dystopian fantasies is far more important than actually upholding the law. It's like Davis read 1984 and thought, "Hey, that sounds like a great blueprint for government!"
Davis doesn't just want to turn the Justice Department into Trump's personal gestapo, ready to crush any dissent and imprison anyone who dares to speak out against the regime; he also can't wait to start locking up more kids at the border. In his own words, "we're gonna put kids in cages. It's going to be glorious." In MAGA land, traumatizing innocent children is a badge of honor.
We haven't see Haley on playdates as yet, which is a shame, given the potential for her, Titus and Ace to get up to mischief.
She was a street dog before Dick found her, so probably would have no issues with stealing pizza, though given her one-time upgrade to a sentient Bitewing, she also has a strong sense of justice.
I think she and Pizza Dog would get on great, and whilst Jeff might take a bit of getting used to, she's probably seen weirder on the streets of Bludhaven.
Can someone tell me facts about Dick Grayson's dog, I'm getting ready to clock in to work but need to know if she is the type of dog to protect kittens, get involved in mob wars, befriend weird dog-shaped objects, befriend weird cat-shaped objects, steal pizza, etc etc. Yes this is about Kate Bishop and Lucky the Pizza Dog and Jeff the Land Shark. Why do you ask
I'm honestly surprised it's taken them this long to do a TMNT Transformer
“MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: Transformers robots have always been — More Than Meets the Eye — and now fans can experience Transformers characters as they mash-up with iconic characters who share this same quality
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES X TRANSFORMERS COLLABORATIVE: Get the party started with this van that’s the main vehicle for the crime-fighting turtle brothers
CONVERTS FROM VEHICLE TO ROBOT: Party Wallop 7-inch (17.5 cm) figure converts between party wagon mode and robot mode in 20 steps. Inspired by the party wagon as seen in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon
CHOOSE YOUR NINJA TURTLE: Convert to robot mode and attach 1 of 4 different heads to create a Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, or Raphael inspired figure
AWESOME ACCESSORIES: Includes 2 ninja swords, bo staff, 2 nunchucks, 2 ninja sai, rotating belt buckle, and 4 swappable heads that attach in robot mode
To celebrate the 76th birthday of José Luis García-López, which was actually yesterday, 26th March, one of the absolute prizes of my collection, the original model sheet for Dick Grayson's Robin from the legendary DC Style Guide from 1982 (A work so masterful that legend has it that artists pitched for work at DC just so they could get a look at it!)
Pencils from Mr García-López, inks by the equally legendary Dick Giordano.
Happy Birthday to one of the absolute masters of comic artwork for the past half century and more...