Complaining! About Comics!

Well, I declare the "history of the DCU" back-up in 52 to be officially useless.

I never managed to read through Zero Hour due to the "Ow! God, My Eyes, It Burns!" factor, but I've read *around* it. I've also read fic, and meta, and made my own GL jokes in poor taste. Hell, it took over a stanza and a half of the DCU Tinies, back when I was feeling creative.

In summary, yeah, I am so not the clueless newbie who *needs* a brief history of the DC universe.* And yet, I still managed to come away from the Zero Hour summary thinking:

Wait. Did they just retcon Barbara Gordon's injury into being Hal Jordan's fault?

Isn't that really, really needlessly random and silly and dumb on many other levels besides?

Since no one else was calling shenanigans, I asked Google what was going on. Google told me there had been an AU Batgirl hanging around for that event, because, I assume, getting her shot just the once was not enough fun. (Yes, I'm cranky. Reading comics that are bad do that to me.) The punchline is, I even was vaguely *aware* of this.

If I had been given *anything* resembling context, I probably could have figured it out. Really. Here is all relevant info given...




(Image split because I didn't want to lj-cut.)

Whoever these "histories" are aimed at, it isn't reasonably rabid fans missing an issue here or there.

I'm not sure why I'm so annoyed. Probably leftover annoyance from when I thought Babs had a new backstory mixed with annoyance from *reading* the 52 backup (the words, they *burns* us, precious).

And I still have no idea what the backup is meant to accomplish, unless the answer is, "Make as many people run screaming from the store as possible; send recorded video to America's funniest. Use winnings to buy a pony."
 

*A brief history of Hawkman canon, okay, I will accept, if only because I don't believe a *brief* (and coherent) history is actually possible.

Because sometimes I am actually quite pleased, believe it or not.

In news that is the opposite of complaining, people wrote me fic!

caia_comica wrote me Coluans (well, *Coluan*) vs zombies! This probably was going to happen sooner or later - I did a quick search just now on the chatlogs between us, and the word "zombie" comes up 109 times. ZOMBIES ARE FUNNY OKAY!

And!

jarodrussell solved Majestros' not getting laid problem. Despite being a tall, dark, well-muscled specimen, the poor guy hasn't had any for a long time. A LOOOONG time. I mean, you'd have to drag out *Methos* for proper laughing commiseration. And. Huh. *There's* an image.

 
Go, read, and leave bewildering feedback in the form of haikus love.

ETA:

So, apparently animated Brainiac 5 will be played by Inspector Gadget.

Am I to get beat up if I admit this amuses me terribly? (At the least, I can't be the only one who wants to see the future model of the Gadgetmobile.)

Further proof that I should probably be banned from Photoshop.

Superhero battles you never thought you'd see...

( Power Girl VS Light Lass! )

*cough* Yeah. Um. At least some of the blame for this belongs to hanannahorlove.