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12/01/2003: this is frustrating...
For seemingly days now (okay it's just since late Saturday, it feels longer though) I've been seeing all these posts on my flist about Hereafter, more squee, and fic, and discussion than usual after a JL ep, and I can't participate yet, nor do I have any clue what the excitement is about (preferring to remain unspoiled, so please don't say). And worse, so far I haven't found an encode of the frelling episode online in the places I usually get the JL episodes. This sucks. I want to watch it too.
I did however get my comics on Saturday, except for the new Superman/Batman, that I thought was supposed to ship last week, but then again, that might be late everywhere. JLA/Avengers #3 was great, though I definitely need to reread it with some annotations, I didn't have a clue about many of the events that were referred to, especially those in Marvel continuity. I've also got an older comic (well slightly older, from 1998), a JLA Elseworld, The Nail (written and pencilled by Alan Davis, inked by Mark Farmer). It's no secret that I'm fond of AUs whether done by fans or by DC, so I have a soft spot for Elseworlds in general. I liked this one, and I have a couple of comments, unfortunately I'm going to lag behind with posting more indepth comic comments, both on the current issues as well as more on The Nail, (and probably blogging in general) due to obnoxious RL stuff that insists on intruding on my fannish time.
Still I wanted to mention that I'd love to see some fanfiction for The Nail Elseworld, in particular some that explores... (spoiler for what happened to Clark/Superman in this Elseworld)
...how this Clark deals with becoming Superman after all, having been raised Amish. I felt that was really lacking. I mean, I could understand how he pushes the non-violence he was taught aside in that battle, having not much choice but to stop the krypto-mutant Jimmy Olsen, but I didn't find it compelling that he'd become Superman, or how he came to this decision, simply because of the Kents, as it was implied in the final pages.
