tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post3519255654992558272..comments2024-03-18T06:15:47.178-03:00Comments on The Dissector: MaGnUshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06351888054411049033noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-2227974059578292292007-08-29T16:39:00.000-03:002007-08-29T16:39:00.000-03:00Awessome MKF; I'll be sure to stop by and leave so...Awessome MKF; I'll be sure to stop by and leave some comments.MaGnUshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351888054411049033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-1906256708086264332007-08-29T14:24:00.000-03:002007-08-29T14:24:00.000-03:00Hey there; no new nits (no new comics until tomorr...Hey there; no new nits (no new comics until tomorrow), I just wanted to let you know that I've been working on Heroine Addict!, and there'll be a couple of new additions when I upload this week's reviews, including a rudimentary comment option. Assuming the comics shipment isn't delayed (not much point uploading pages if there's nothing new to talk about), the upgrades to the site should be online by this time tomorrow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-22447827349755203232007-08-29T03:42:00.000-03:002007-08-29T03:42:00.000-03:00Mean Jeff said (over e-mail) "Agreed, my aggressio...Mean Jeff said (over e-mail) "<I><B>Agreed, my aggression may be a little over the top, but I place blame firmly on the pharmaceutical industry. And MTV. But I digress....<BR/><BR/>The Johnny Quick thing strikes a nerve since I've been a speedster afficionado since back in the day. Not knowing the formula is kind of like saying Wolverine has a titanium endoskeleton.<BR/><BR/>Peace, brah.</I></B>"<BR/><BR/>It's the same type of nit, but given Johnny Quick's c-lister (sorry bud, but he is a c-lister) status, it won't rank as high.MaGnUshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351888054411049033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-91510323076262293742007-08-28T01:41:00.000-03:002007-08-28T01:41:00.000-03:00"Mean" Jeff Marsick sent me a couple of e-mails on..."Mean" Jeff Marsick sent me a couple of e-mails on last wek's column, which I copy with the answers, here: <BR/><BR/>Mean Jeff said "<I><B>Oh, did you miss a BEAUTY of a fuck-up, my friend (by the way, long time reader, first time writer-in) in Thunderbolts #116. The heinous crime occurs, top panel, second to last page. Some spudnik calling himself Mindwave (no hypen) is being fired upon by police officers, with a close up on the small arms they are using: Deodato does a decent rendering of the Beretta 9mm. So second to last page, Mindwave (no hypen) stops the rounds all in mid-air, a nanosecond before he is to become Mindswisscheese. Take a look at what's hangin' ten just a foot from his face: entire bullets! So that means these cops fire not just the projectile part of the bullet, but the casing, too! Now, look closer. No, closer still. Deodato drew the casings....with no pointy ends to indicate a projectile portion of the round! Basically, this is what a blank looks like: full casing, flat end. So the police are firing complete blank bullets?!?!? Take a final look at this atrocity. What do you see? Yup. They're not even the right SIZE of casings. These are RIFLE slugs...and the cops are firing them from 9mm Berettas??? <BR/><BR/>That's a hell of a po-leece department. Firing complete blank rounds of rifle bullets from a handgun and hoping to take a bad guy down.<BR/><BR/>No wonder they need superheroes to help them out.</I></B>"<BR/><BR/>Nice to know you're reading Jeff... no, the comment didn't go through the blog, apparently. I did miss this fuck up, you bet I'll report it next column, with due credit, of course. No wonder they need superheroes to help them out. <BR/><BR/>Mean Jeff said "<I><B>To quote Tom Cruise, Herr Magnus: "Much love."<BR/><BR/>But I need to draw your attention to another issue, and another matter. I checked through your blog to see if I missed it and I don't believe I have, but the egregious foul in JSoA #8 is Johnny Quick's speed<BR/>formula, given on page 3 of said issue as a young Jesse Quick is trying to get her powers under control. I'll give you that she mucks it up; she's young. But on the very next page, Dad decides to play showboat <BR/>and bursts into uniform by shouting "3X2(94Z)4A!" <BR/><BR/>Again, was DC's editorial staff on hiatus or did Geoff Johns retcon out the important details? I mean, come on, anyone who knows ANYTHING about the DC Universe's speedsters knows that the formula that JQ shouts is 3X2(9YZ)4A.<BR/><BR/>It's about as important as knowing where to put the friggin' 'S' on Superman's costume.<BR/><BR/>You hear that sudden pop? Yeah, that was my brain imploding over this.</I></B>"<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the love... but I'd quote Everlast on the "Much Love", from the song "Still Gotta Lotta Love Lyrics" by House of Pain. As for the Quick's formula, I didn't spot it... some ten years ago I would have spotted it because I used to repeat the formula while trying to make it work :P<BR/><BR/>Man, that's a bit of an exaggeration, we _are_ talking about Johnny freaking Quick, not Superman, but I get you. Struck a nerve, did they? :>MaGnUshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351888054411049033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-44271015748296589032007-08-25T07:55:00.000-03:002007-08-25T07:55:00.000-03:00I'm looking into it - if I turn up some simple com...I'm looking into it - if I turn up some simple comment script that I can incorporate into the page, without confusing the hell out of myself, I'll try it out.<BR/><BR/>Re: Zatanna, as I said initially, I don't disagree with your assessment of the Countdown use as a nit (it's <I>possible</I> her 'go home' spell requires dual-reversal as a security measure to keep less-powerful mages away from her place, but that's me speculating, not something I'm crediting the writer(s) with unless I'm told so in clearer terms). I just mentioned it as an aside, for future reference should a Seven-Soldiers-like situation where it seems intentional arise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-88130641536846362762007-08-25T07:36:00.000-03:002007-08-25T07:36:00.000-03:00Too bad about the comments... I really feel like l...Too bad about the comments... I really feel like leaving them, since you're such a faithful reader of mine. :P<BR/><BR/>And about Zee, I get what you mean, not enough still to make me retract, though. :PMaGnUshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351888054411049033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-46314331611368794792007-08-25T05:48:00.000-03:002007-08-25T05:48:00.000-03:00Thanks! As for comments, I'd love to, but I have ...Thanks! As for comments, I'd love to, but I have no idea how. I do all my HTML in the sophisticated setting of Wordpad, y'see... Until I find out how it's done, in the automated sense, I'm stuck with just the email link, and adding any comments I get sent to next week's page.<BR/><BR/>So far as Zee goes, I never read her prior to Seven Soldiers, but the use of reversed sentences in there struck me as something that could well have been intentional - given how fond Morrison is of putting meaning into minute details. From memory, there's three instances where the sentence structure is reversed as well as the words - one of them is an escape spell in a situation where her life is is immediate danger, the other two are what I guess you'd call 'killing blows' in battle - I can't find a spot where she (or her apprentice at the time) uses a normally-phrased spell in a similarly important situation. Both standard and full-reverse spells are used over the course of the Zatanna series and in the final Seven Soldiers issue (which was some time later), so it doesn't seem like something Morrison just misremembered after a break. And you have to admit, it makes sense on a thematic level - her magic works by reversing, so reversing more should have more power. It's not stated explicitly, but <I>nothing</I> in Seven Soldiers is explicit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-3262727975065165712007-08-25T02:54:00.000-03:002007-08-25T02:54:00.000-03:00Miss Kitty Fantastico said "I'm not sure about tho...Miss Kitty Fantastico said "<I>I'm not sure about those 31st Century nits - yes, we understand them, but maybe to someone from the Legion's time (or Booster's)</I>"<BR/><BR/>I understand what you're saying, but the Legionaires should at least understand that's she's talking about "virus", "net", and "infiltrate", so they shouldn't stand there looking like they're people from the 16th century being talked about that stuff. Same for Booster, he doesn't need to understand what zero point is, but Skeets says "optically accessible" and "vulenrable", that should be enough for Booster to know he has to shoot Ace's eyes. Plus, you're saying that we know what zero point energy and optical neural nets are because we're from the 21st Century... and Booster is not asking him to put it in "plain English" (like the Thing does to Mr. Fantastic, or the X-Men to Beast), but in "21st Century English". (I'm a stubborn man :P)<BR/><BR/>Miss Kitty Fantastico said "<I>Agreed that the thing with Zatanna's sentence order is probably a nit in that case, but she has spoken sentences in reverse before, in circumstances that made it seem like it was intentional - reversing the sentence as well as the individual words seemed to be her way of giving the spell an extra bit of oomph. In Seven Soldiers of Victory she does most of her magic the usual way, but when she really needs the big stuff, she reverses whole sentences. As I said, it's likely a nit that she did it just to go home (unless using the 'extra oomph' phrasing is necessary to reach her home, as a kind of security measure), but there's precedent for it to happen sometimes.</I>"<BR/><BR/>Was that stated explictly? I haven't read Seven Soldiers of Victory, but from what I hear, Grant Morrison didn't exactly pay much attention to continuity and those kind of things when he wrote it.<BR/><BR/>Miss Kitty Fantastico said "<I>Nitpicking the nitpicker: 'Dayamn' became 'Dayman' in the last section. Only one Bazzar, it's an easy slip of the keyboard to make ;)</I>"<BR/><BR/>Gotcha, I don't know how the hell the spellchecker, who feels the need to question my every word, even if they're correctly spelled, would allow dayman to go past it... I probably didn't notice the misspelling and just hit "ignore". Look for your HNS Badge in your next box of cereals (or your next jar of vegemite).<BR/><BR/>Miss Kitty Fantastico said "<I>On the subject of typos, there were a couple of minor ones in the otherwise savagely-fun Bomb Queen III #4 - I didn't note down the pages, but there was definitely a misused it's/its (which is a pet peeve of mine) at some point.</I>"<BR/><BR/>Haven't read Bomb Queen, thank you for the report, but I really don't feel like reading a book just for a few typos. :P<BR/><BR/>Miss Kitty Fantastico said "<I>I actually didn't notice how large the ring was - shows how these obvious ones can slip by, I guess - but though it may be a trick of perspective, it looks like the stone is larger in the lower panel than it is in the upper one.</I>"<BR/><BR/>Yes, the stone looks larger, so I guess it's a combo nit or something like that... but perspective can't excuse the sheer sice of the ring, because we're seeing her hand at the same distance, and it still looks like four of her fingers fit in that ring. It's like my wife holding up my ring, almost. :><BR/><BR/>Miss Kitty Fantastico said "<I>(And if I can steal a moment to self-promote, I launched a mini-website this week - nothing fancy, just thoughts on comics I read and action figures I buy. It's called Heroine Addict! (cuz I love heroines, obviously), and it's the link I'm now using for my posts here. I'm still tinkering with some bits of it, but there'll be a more comprehensive links section soon, and I'll put this blog on it.) </I>"<BR/><BR/>Go ahead and promote all you want, I'll even go ahead and do you some publicity on next week's column. I'll add the link right now. Hey, looking at the site.. it looks good, but you don't have an option for comments! I wanted to say that I pretty much agree with your comments about The Order. Issue #1 was readable, issue #2 was good.MaGnUshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351888054411049033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-5533640338540423072007-08-25T00:51:00.000-03:002007-08-25T00:51:00.000-03:00I'm not sure about those 31st Century nits - yes, ...I'm not sure about those 31st Century nits - yes, <I>we</I> understand them, but maybe to someone from the Legion's time (or Booster's) things like 'intranet' and 'carnivore virus' are the equivalent of someone trying to explain a sailing ship to us. You jibbock the mains'l, d'y see, and bring 'er about on a leeward tack, or whatever all that is. Just because the Legion people are well-educated in their time doesn't mean they understand the jargon for our primitive junk - I like to think I'm kind of smart, and I know I can handle a small trimaran (more or less, with a moderate amount of trial and error), but I'm sure I'd be lost if someone tried to explain how it's done. Same for Booster - assuming he even paid attention in school, Rip would still probably be talking about stuff that's the equivalent of vacuum tubes to him. <I>We</I> know what zero point energy and optical neural nets are because they're contemporary to us (and common pulp sci-fi), but to someome from the future it could just be so much gibberish.<BR/><BR/>Agreed that the thing with Zatanna's sentence order is probably a nit in that case, but she has spoken sentences in reverse before, in circumstances that made it seem like it was intentional - reversing the sentence as well as the individual words seemed to be her way of giving the spell an extra bit of oomph. In Seven Soldiers of Victory she does most of her magic the usual way, but when she really needs the big stuff, she reverses whole sentences. As I said, it's likely a nit that she did it just to go home (unless using the 'extra oomph' phrasing is necessary to reach her home, as a kind of security measure), but there's precedent for it to happen sometimes.<BR/><BR/>Nitpicking the nitpicker: 'Dayamn' became 'Dayman' in the last section. Only one Bazzar, it's an easy slip of the keyboard to make ;)<BR/><BR/>On the subject of typos, there were a couple of minor ones in the otherwise savagely-fun Bomb Queen III #4 - I didn't note down the pages, but there was definitely a misused it's/its (which is a pet peeve of mine) at some point.<BR/><BR/>I actually didn't notice how large the ring was - shows how these obvious ones can slip by, I guess - but though it may be a trick of perspective, it looks like the stone is larger in the lower panel than it is in the upper one.<BR/><BR/>(And if I can steal a moment to self-promote, I launched a mini-website this week - nothing fancy, just thoughts on comics I read and action figures I buy. It's called Heroine Addict! (cuz I love heroines, obviously), and it's the link I'm now using for my posts here. I'm still tinkering with some bits of it, but there'll be a more comprehensive links section soon, and I'll put this blog on it.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-10455165197128796182007-08-24T17:55:00.000-03:002007-08-24T17:55:00.000-03:00He shoots, he scores! I did say it was easy.. that...He shoots, he scores! I did say it was easy.. that f'ing ring is humongously large!MaGnUshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351888054411049033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19261226.post-34354424582619967422007-08-24T15:05:00.000-03:002007-08-24T15:05:00.000-03:00Very easy nit!That ring is for Ben Grimm's fingers...Very easy nit!<BR/>That ring is for Ben Grimm's fingers or maybe Hulk's. Canary could wear it as a collar...royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04558982818168707770noreply@blogger.com