belphegor1982 replied to your text post:
Happy convention! I hope you return to us rested and excited :o) (also, you can order a Caesar salad and stab it (to eat it, of course) to celebrate :D)
Thank you! I actually had almost no sleep during the convention for anxiety-related reasons, but then I came home and crashed for a full 12 hours so I'm relatively well-rested now. There were a few bumps in the weekend due to reasons outside my control, but otherwise I had a pretty good time :) Hope everyone had a good weekend!
truxi-twice replied to your link post:
Like there wasn't a whole Battle Top craze just a few years back. Honestly,
spider-webbing and A Light Cannon sound stupid too, y'know?
When Turbine debuted, Manapul made a comment that they replaced Roscoe because "nobody knows what tops are anymore". Ever since then I've been annoying my spouse with that line whenever I see Beyblades on toy shelves :> And agreed, pretty much every comic character -- and probably a lot of characters in fiction -- can sound ridiculous when you twist their concept to seem silly. Which is exactly what that writer did here.
ashlethenggm replied to your link post:
It makes me so mad to see people making fun of the Top. He's much more capable than people give him credit for.
He is! But mockery of him is extremely common, and it's so frustrating. I'm
sure it's part of the reason he's really unpopular.
ashlethenggm replied to your text post:
Reading this guy's comments is so infuriating. But since the Rouges are still
around in current comics, have fans, and have even been featured in movies
(Digger in Suicide Squad) then I'd say he was wrong.
I like the way you think! And agreed for sure. The oldest of Barry's Rogues
are more than 60 years old now and the other Silver Age Rogues are approaching that age, and they're more popular than ever. Jay's enemies are 75 years+ now.
littleratqueen replied to your text post:
Has this guy even read the comics they're in?
That's a very good question. For some of these entries it sounds like he isn't
familiar with much of their appearances, especially because all he does is riff
on what's in their Who's Who entries. But I'm pretty sure Len got such a good
grade because of his modern incarnation, suggesting he does know a bit about
him....because let's be real, Len wasn't that popular or much of a cool badass
before Johns.
audreyfulquard replied to your text post:
who hurt this man
I don't know, but they have much to answer for.
fyeahgoldenvibe replied to your text post:
Like...WTF. First off, Lisa didn't invent the skates, she stole them from Len (if I remember right) and the person doesn't credit her for being the first person to figure out Barry is the Flash or being as flat out deadly (she would have killed the Flash 10 times over if the male Rogues didn't step in.) I was also going to say, incest? But then I remembered she dressed her later boyfriends up like Len lol. I hate when people don't give her the credit she's due.
You're remembering correctly, the skates were Len's invention. And in fact the Who's Who entry does state that she figured out Barry's identity, although it doesn't note that she was the first. Regardless, like a lot of non-Rogues fans, this guy makes a whole bunch of assumptions about her and thinks she's silly because she has a skating gimmick (seriously, I have run into so many of those guys over the years) and thus writes her off as a threat or even as a character.
As I noted in the reply to an ask, I think the guy is referring to her ties to other Rogues by the "incest" comment. Chillblaine's thematic similarities to Len is weird, but it might just be DC being non-creative about their cold villain designs...the villain Coldsnap also looks similar to Len and the Chillblaines, but isn't connected to them.
belphegor1982 replied to your text post:
I really hate this attitude - it's just gratuitous bile (riddled with mistakes, because like you said, why be truthful when you can be mean?) from someone who clearly thinks arrogance is cleverness. Idiot.
Yeah, seconded. It's the same old stuff we hear from people who don't know the Rogues well and think they're just 'LOL heat gun' 'LOL ice skates' and so on. It's interesting to see how non-fans perceive the Rogues, but they rarely have anything interesting or insightful to say about them.
ashlethenggm replied to your photo post:
Bring Digger back to the Rouges #2K18 Also, I doubt he's dead, but I'm gonna stay pissed until I see he's alive again.
Same! And I must say, I was figuring he'd appear in the June solicitation/cover released today....but he wasn't. That makes me a tad nervous for his future in the book. However, it's possible the issue will simply focus on Deadshot and Digger and the other Squad members aren’t being used for non-sinister reasons.
peppersandcats replied to your text post:
/facepalm - Thank you for reading that so we didn't have to? (Although I did. Which I now regret.)
Yeah, I actually enjoy reading stuff like that because I'm interested to know what other people think about the Rogues....although as noted above, they rarely have anything insightful to say. But I find it helps me to write about the Rogues for newcomers, as it helps to head off their complaints before they come to a knee-jerk negative conclusion about the characters.
heavensong replied to your photo post:
OOH! Ship is gonna be at Supercon this year! I really wanna meet him ahhhhh. Awesome photos btw!
Thank you! I was too shy to meet him in person, alas, but I really enjoyed his panel and you should go see him if you get the chance. He clearly knows a fair bit about Jay and the Flashverse, and seems like a genuinely nice and positive person. He is so perfect for Jay :D
