There's a reason why Braniac is truly terrifying...

...and it's not just because he comes with 10 clicks of pulse-waving evil.

Braniac ate my hard drive. There's no saving it. Dr. Mid-Nite did all he could, but I'm going to have to buy a replacement. I can only hope Babs fares better in next week's Birds of Prey.

This doesn't mean I'm giving up on my Weeklong Thesis of Slash. It's just going to be a hell of a whole lot less illustrated. (It also means no more Homoerotica Fridays, at least for another week or two.)

Posting will be light on my end for the next few days as I shift from our summer apartment to MSU's dorms.

But, as promised, I will post my epic parody of Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams' run on Green Lantern/Green Arrow and the back stories of The Flash, commonly known as the Hard Traveling Heroes era. It's one of my all-time favorite storylines. Neal Adams' pencils are a joy to look at. His Dinah Lance is pretty and feminine in a way that modern "pin-up" pencilers like Terry Dodson and J. Scott Campbell can't even touch. The story telling easily guides you along the page. The anatomy is gorgeous... and I've never seen anyone draw a better angry face.

Denny O'Neil's writing, on the other hand, alternates between the idealistic:

There's a fine country out there someplace! Let's go find it!

to the romantic:

...A modern Robin Hood, a green-clad warrior with a laugh like the roar of a mountain river and arms like steel cables...

to melodramatic crack:

Some hideous moral cancer is rotting our very souls!

to misplaced social awareness:

My ward, Speedy, is a junkie!

to, well... um, he meant well:

THIS BLACK MAN LETS IT ALL HANG OUT!

The story arc also included Hal Jordan accidentally getting high on a bad batch of canned mushrooms, which is hilarious.

It's iconic, it's melodramatic, it totally deserves to be made fun of. Coming soon.

2006 is gonna be a good year.

Being a total fanboy means getting insanely excited about things that don't even exist yet.

Like a Justice League RPG for the PS2 and XBox.

Not an action fighter. A role-playing game, people. As in, leveling up. As in, adding people to your party.

Featured super heroes will include Superman, Batman, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, and Zatanna, instead of traditional seventh meber, Aquaman. Each super hero will possess unique super powers that are character-specific, creating a variety of fighting styles for players to utilize while battling the forces of evil. Gamers will have the power to bring classic super heroes of the "Justice League of America" to life, customize their skills and engage in one-to-two player cooperative combat throughout interactive and destructible environments.

Translation: It's going to be Marvel Legends in the DCU.

Oh, happy day.

On the toy front, I've got a 13-inch cloth-costume Hal Jordan action figure to look forward to. From the look of him, he's got about the same level of articulation as the unnervingly-adorable 9-inch figure from Hasbro sold at Target a few years back.

And, God help me, the mask comes off.

I know some people around here do not share my love of Hal Jordan, but they are wrong.

My first blog meme *sniff*

It's a gay Friday... sort of.

It's the Gay Meme, tagged by Scipio, who posts hilarious and lovely scans. (Honeysuckle? So hot.)

1. Are you single or in a monogamous relationship?

Dude. There's a damn reason we do the blog together. We're practically married.

2. How long have you been with your partner/significant other/boy/girlfriend?

About 3 years now. Ish.

3. How did the two of you meet?

We lived on the same Honors College floor here at Michigan State for two years, and just hit it off.

For some wierd reason, I distinctly remember her wearing this shirt that said "Pie for Strength!" on it when she first introduced herself. It was from this restaurant place near a mountain, so it was the only food climbers could snag before they went up. Pie for strength.

Whenever I see her wearing it now, I smile.

4. What do you like to do together?

Franny will tell me every so often that we need to live in the real world more. We talk about comic books a lot. We're total movie junkies (it feels like we've watched at least 60-70% of Paul Newman's filmography by now, even though we're not even close).

She's also been dragging me to a lot of parties lately, which I really don't mind going to as much as I say I do. Kind of like how we go to a HeroClix tournament and I say I don't plan on playing but I'm always pleasantly surprised to find she made me a damned team anyway.

5. If you are single, what would life be like with your ideal
spouse/partner?

Let's see... I'm living in an apartment with my girlie. We play HeroClix, Magic, and roleplaying games, run an entertaining comic blog (it's funny to me, dammit), read a damn lot of comics, goof around with action figures, watch excellent and slashy movies, get drunk every so often and generally get cuddly whenever we damn well please.

Yeah. I think I'm rocking that "ideal life" right now, yo.

Since my known membership list for the Gay Blogger's Union is quite short, I'm going to pass this off to Franny, if she'd like to add anything else. Or any of my lovely commenters...

Um. Derf.

I was never very good at handing off the stick. It's why I never did relay races when I was on the track team. Well, that and the fact that I can't run worth a damn.

But I digress.

Also: I've got an appointment with an Awesome Tech Buddy (tm) Sunday to fix my poor, broken computer. (I'm getting real damn tired of using Jean Paul Valley, y'know?)

If all goes well, next week will be a chock-full-of-scans week devoted to analyzing what makes a character slashy.

If it does not go well, I'll post the text-only IRC/AOL chat parody of Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams' run on Green Lantern, to console myself with The Funny.