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dhampyresaScarlet Witch 7 came out recently.
I don't know if I want to read it.
On the one hand: WANDA MAXIMOFF ♥!
On the other hand: issue #6 used French national tragedies in a really crass way that really soured me on it.
On the third, tentacular, hand: It doesn't matter whether I read this comic or not. Really, it doesn't! Because I, being French, do not count as a costumer for Marvel in the first place! Seriously, folks. I cannot boycott shit even when I want to, because I am not a costumer. It's really that simple. I cannot vote with my dollars, because Marvel would not have been getting my dollars anyway (or my euros).
On the fourth, robot, hand: I feel like nobody gives a single fuck how offensive Scarlet Witch #6 was. I haven't seen anyone else say anything about it. And that's fine, not everyone has to be offended by the same things! I just feel a little alone. (I suppose Marvel doesn't have to care if they lose my business.)
On the fifth hand: I don't know. I guess this makes me not a real fan.
Often when I pass the place where I've hung original artwork of Gwen Stacy on one wall facing original artwork of Wanda Maximoff on the other, I think about how cool a team-up between those two would be.
I think I need some sort of three strikes system, like "If you feel the need to vent about X more than three times, time to consider if getting rid of X in your life wouldn't be a good idea". (Not that this is always feasible, but. You know.)
MY DRAWINGS ARE TOO BIG! Seriously. I have a pastel work that's too big for my art folder. That's never happened before; usually I feel a little self-conscious about how much bigger than my works the folder is. I need a new folder.
I also need to figure out if my scanner drivers survived the recent system reboot and how to scan gigantic artwork.
I had semi-impromptu lunch with one the fandom folks today and it was lovely ♥!
We spent the entire time talking in French. I don't think I've ever spent this long speaking about fandom in French before.
In 1862, Gustave Flaubert published a novel, Salammbô, in which Hannibal Barca is a character. I haven't read it.
This is mostly because the novel is entirely straight-faced about and in part responsible for how popular the image of Carthaginians sacrificing children is -- and I am always very wary of taking the words of the victors about the habits of the people they commited genocide upon. (Flaubert, by necessity, drew only on Roman sources.)
Also, it takes place right after the First Punic War, while Hannibal is still a child -- by all accounts his role in the novel is minimal -- and I'm really more about the Second than First Punic War.
That said, I did enjoy what I saw of it in the tome 2 of the Koblenz comic (Marcher dans Carthage une nuit sans lune) -- the comic had some very pointed commentary about how purity != virginity, too, which I appreciated -- especially the veil of Tanith, that was some awesome stuff. Anyway, I have the Lone Sloane/IN SPACE adaptation of the Flauber novel by Druillet somewhere, I think, maybe I should read that.
Anyway, not only did the novel give its name to one pf my favourite Indochine song, Salombo (Hanoi 2006 orchestral version), but I recently discovered it's also given its name to a pastry.
So naturally I had to try it. It's okay. It's a lot like an eclair.
I finally signed up for fandomgiftbox.
I don't know if I want to read it.
On the one hand: WANDA MAXIMOFF ♥!
On the other hand: issue #6 used French national tragedies in a really crass way that really soured me on it.
On the third, tentacular, hand: It doesn't matter whether I read this comic or not. Really, it doesn't! Because I, being French, do not count as a costumer for Marvel in the first place! Seriously, folks. I cannot boycott shit even when I want to, because I am not a costumer. It's really that simple. I cannot vote with my dollars, because Marvel would not have been getting my dollars anyway (or my euros).
On the fourth, robot, hand: I feel like nobody gives a single fuck how offensive Scarlet Witch #6 was. I haven't seen anyone else say anything about it. And that's fine, not everyone has to be offended by the same things! I just feel a little alone. (I suppose Marvel doesn't have to care if they lose my business.)
On the fifth hand: I don't know. I guess this makes me not a real fan.
Often when I pass the place where I've hung original artwork of Gwen Stacy on one wall facing original artwork of Wanda Maximoff on the other, I think about how cool a team-up between those two would be.
I think I need some sort of three strikes system, like "If you feel the need to vent about X more than three times, time to consider if getting rid of X in your life wouldn't be a good idea". (Not that this is always feasible, but. You know.)
MY DRAWINGS ARE TOO BIG! Seriously. I have a pastel work that's too big for my art folder. That's never happened before; usually I feel a little self-conscious about how much bigger than my works the folder is. I need a new folder.
I also need to figure out if my scanner drivers survived the recent system reboot and how to scan gigantic artwork.
I had semi-impromptu lunch with one the fandom folks today and it was lovely ♥!
We spent the entire time talking in French. I don't think I've ever spent this long speaking about fandom in French before.
In 1862, Gustave Flaubert published a novel, Salammbô, in which Hannibal Barca is a character. I haven't read it.
This is mostly because the novel is entirely straight-faced about and in part responsible for how popular the image of Carthaginians sacrificing children is -- and I am always very wary of taking the words of the victors about the habits of the people they commited genocide upon. (Flaubert, by necessity, drew only on Roman sources.)
Also, it takes place right after the First Punic War, while Hannibal is still a child -- by all accounts his role in the novel is minimal -- and I'm really more about the Second than First Punic War.
That said, I did enjoy what I saw of it in the tome 2 of the Koblenz comic (Marcher dans Carthage une nuit sans lune) -- the comic had some very pointed commentary about how purity != virginity, too, which I appreciated -- especially the veil of Tanith, that was some awesome stuff. Anyway, I have the Lone Sloane/IN SPACE adaptation of the Flauber novel by Druillet somewhere, I think, maybe I should read that.
Anyway, not only did the novel give its name to one pf my favourite Indochine song, Salombo (Hanoi 2006 orchestral version), but I recently discovered it's also given its name to a pastry.
So naturally I had to try it. It's okay. It's a lot like an eclair.
I finally signed up for fandomgiftbox.
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Date: 2016-06-24 12:40 am (UTC)This sounds like a good principle.
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Date: 2016-06-24 02:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-06-25 09:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-06-24 02:27 am (UTC)I'm not really a comic reader but I'm so sorry you ran into crassness in a comic you had been enjoying.
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Date: 2016-06-25 10:40 pm (UTC)It was deeply unpleasant, that's for sure.
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Date: 2016-06-24 02:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-06-25 10:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-06-24 12:42 pm (UTC)Pourquoi ça ?
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Date: 2017-07-30 12:19 am (UTC)//remembers self endlessly ranting about Marvel comics and MCU
....heh.
On the one hand I loved Scarlet Witch because WANDA and the covers were beautiful and I loved having a different artist for every issue and it did seem like Marvel was trying to make up for having treated her like utter crap for I don't know how long. OTOH a lot of the writing was tone deaf, at best (the French history stuff, "women's magic," the Emerald Sorcerer who was straight outta Lucky Charms). And "at best" is being super fucking generous. But in the end my wanting to support a solo Wanda book won out over those concerns. I hate having to make that kind of choice. But I doubt we'll get another Wanda book in the next decade, and they've gone back to really shitting on her all over again, so in the end I was personally glad I'd bought it. But I fully understand other people having big problems with it.
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Date: 2017-07-30 10:46 pm (UTC)As the saying goes, "No one hates comics like comics fans".
The covers were amazing! (I wonder if they're available as posters or shirts?) Yeah, I really wanted to support Wanda having a solo book, but under the Diamond/pre-order model, there was no way for me to do so, seeing as how I live in Paris.
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Date: 2017-07-31 01:01 am (UTC)HEH. I have arrived!
The covers were amazing! (I wonder if they're available as posters or shirts?)
I would SO buy a poster of one, or a couple, or all of them in a kind of quilt thing. He posted them all here: http://davidaja.com/temp/SCARLET_WITCH_COVERS.jpg
Yeah, I really wanted to support Wanda having a solo book, but under the Diamond/pre-order model, there was no way for me to do so, seeing as how I live in Paris.
Which is SO STUPID. (Diamond, not your living in Paris.) I mean for a bunch of comics I dutifully put them on my pull list and picked them up every week and they got fucking cancelled anyway! And then the LCS orders were so low, if they didn't get me an issue or I started late in a series, you had to buy one off ebay at like twice the price, and the artist wouldn't get money anyway. W.T.F. Or you can go pawing through the 'bargain bins' to see what you missed only I don't have the time or the wrists to do that. I thought book publishing was bad (screwed royalties, 'credit for returns,' quarterly payments, all that) but comics publishing makes it look like a business school model.
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Date: 2017-08-01 09:57 pm (UTC)And under the Diamond model, you have to buy stuff sight unseen at exorbitant prices! It's a bullshit model.
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Date: 2017-08-02 01:08 am (UTC)