Plotbunny poll

[elspethdixon]

Main New Year's Resolution: Get a full-time job.

Secondary New Year's Resolution: buckle down and start seriously working on some long fic or other--and finish my two outstanding WiPs (Authority and Lonesome Dove).

Interest poll:

[Poll #898697]

Comments

[kali921.livejournal.com]

As a HUGE Daredevil, Elektra, and Luke (and Misty and Danny!) fan, I say option #3 ALL THE WAY, baby!

OMG, Elektra and Matt...so hot. Er...I've read DD and Elektra canon for over twenty years now. Eeek!

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

OMG, Elektra and Matt...so hot.

Elektra & Matt: theirloveissoallabouttheviolentbed-breakingsex. And rough, on-the-rooftop-in-the-rain-while-in-costume sex.

The tragic thing about Elektra is that she's so often written badly (or, you know, played by Jennifer Garner--not that anyone in that movie was cast all that spectacularly) and turned into a bitch or a boring Marvel-verse version of Lady Shiva, when she should/could/can be an interesting and sympathetic character in her own right. Of course, give that Frank Miller created her, I suppose we ought to just be gratful she was never a prostitute.

The Jazzverse AU is leading the polls, but Daredevil is eating my brain right now, so...

I'll probably end up writing random bits of all of them, and take, like, a year to produce any finished fic.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

The tragic thing about Elektra is that she's so often written badly

Of course, it belatedly occurs to me that, compared to Luke Cage, she's gotten off pretty lightly in the bad writing department. Writers who can't do decent female characters are as nothing compared to writers-in-the-70s trying to make a character "hip." It's the difference between rolling your eyes at fanservice-y costumes and actively being embarassed for Marvel (could you have stuck a few more steriotypes in there if you'd really tried?).

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'm not sure I can vote fairly on this, since I'm baised on all of them, but you know that if you decide to go for the Daredevil story, I'm up for it.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I have revised my Marvel-verse matrimony plans. Since Reed Richards and Peter Parker are already taken (and Sue and MJ could both beat me up), I wish to marry Foggy Nelson.

God, that man puts up with a lot. And he does it cheerfully and willingly while still being reality check guy if you need it. Marry me, Foggy. I will teach you how to buy suits that don't look stupid Of course, then I'd be Daredevil's in-law, and somebody evil would probably stab me. Or blow me up. Or blow me up and then stab me, and leave my body on Matt Murdock's doorstep.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

Foggy is just an utter sweetheart, isn't he? He's, like, the only normal, nice guy in Marvel-verse. And yet for some reason, he still chooses to stay friends with Matt. Which just makes him even cooler.

His taste in clothes is pretty questionable, isn't it?

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

And yet for some reason, he still chooses to stay friends with Matt.

Well, somebody has to. After all, pretty much everyone else just yells at him and blames him for stuff that's only nominally his fault (or completely not his fault at all).

I know. The bowties are fine, but really, plaid suits? It makes me want to tell him, "Sweetie, Matt is blind. What's your excuse?"

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

Ah, just wait until you get to "The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson." It explains a lot. And Foggy just gets cooler.

Also, and on an unrelater note, 11th - 16th good for you?

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

11th-to-16th sounds great.

Hee! Elektra has just shown up to yell at Matt and leave. After Black Widow showed up to yell at him and leave (and call Elektra on the way out). And then Luke yelled at him. And then Typhoid Mary set him on fire. It's like a party game: Who will bitch Matt out next?

All we need now is for the Punisher to show up and yell at him--oh, wait. That happens eventually, too.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

Great! I'll look into tickets, then.

People like to yell at Matt. It's like a national Marvel-verse hobby.

Actually, I'm impressed; the Punisher has been comparatively interesting in the Daredevil stuff I've seen him in thus far, and I didn't think that was possible.

[htbthomas.livejournal.com]

Considering that I just fell in love with you based on your Nextwave Xmas fic, I will read WHATEVER you write. (I am a fan of pretty much anything in that list.)

BTW, just ignore the stalkeristic scary tone in this post... I am really just a big fan of good superhero writing. :)

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I've read comics/watched cartoons for years, but I'm only just starting to write comics fic (mostly, I've written for HP, PotC, and various Westerns). I've got one WiP for The Authority here (http://elspethdixon.livejournal.com/93877.html), and a bunch of plotbunnies in various stages of developement.

There really ought to be more fic for comics in general, especially for Marvel-comics-that-aren't-X-Men (much as I love X-Men, where is the Spiderman fic? The Fantastic Four fic? The Daredevil pr0n fic?--just to pick titles that have had movies made for them, which doesn't seem to have spurred fic for Spidey the way it has for X-Men).

And, of course, long, emo Gambit/Rogue epics. My inner 13-year-old can never get enough long, melodramatic Gambit/Rogue fic.

[htbthomas.livejournal.com]

I know... seriously! The Spidey fic is totally lacking (which is of course, my pref, I wrote a couple). But the other stuff as well. I am tired of seeing 50-million X-Men fics, too.

I haven't read The Authority. Maybe I should give it a shot?

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Well, the original Authority run was written by Warren Ellis, who also writes Nextwave (the Shockwave Rider is a spoof of the giant spaceship the Authority ride around in), and it has some interesting female characters as well as a canonical gay couple (who are a fairly-obvious pastiche of Batman and Superman, causing many fangirls to squeal in glee). My favorite characters: Jack Hawksmoor, the guy who can talk to cities; Angie, the cyborg woman; and The Midnighter, the Batman pastiche.

It's pretty violent in places (like, people's spines getting ripped out violent), but the Ellis run also has some great snarky banter.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Belatedly adding: I know scans of some of it are up on scans_daily, and there's also a fic/fanart com called theauthority.

[htbthomas.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Sounds interesting? Ellis is a definite draw. Any suggestions on where to start?

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

At the beginning ^_^. The Ellis run is out in 1 1/2 trade paperbacks (All of The Authority: Relentless and half of The Authority: Under New Management are Warren Ellis/Bryan Hitch--then the comic was handed off to Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, and the art became spectacularly ugly, though not as ugly as Rob Liefeld art. Quitely can't draw faces, and everyone looks sort of smooshed).

I'd look for the Ellis stuff and The Authority: Revolution volumes one and two, by Ed Brubaker (wherein we return to pretty art). Though I'll give you a heads up--some of the plot twists in Revolution are tearjerkers, as per Brubaker's almost-fangirl-like joy in inflicting woe on his characters.

[htbthomas.livejournal.com]

Cool! New comics to read and obsess over.

Brubaker! LOL... I'm reading his run on Daredevil right now. :)