Comments on: “Torch” — Part VI, Page 10

By: Speed

Speed — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:46:19 +0000

“OUR BAZOOMS ARE OUR WEAPONS”

By: Mordecai

Mordecai — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:47:25 +0000

Reading back through, and I’m struck again by how phenomenally hot Candidate 2 is. (Ms. Stab Six Times? Ms. Hexapunct?) Perhaps it’s the combination of the expression and body language and powersuit with tails, with the cleavage and ultrafrilly corset? It’s like she’s precision engineered for people who like powerful women.

(But: why can she wear the ultrafrilly corset in public without undermining her impression of competence? Does she only dress like that when around other Llaveracs, who have specifically Llaverac criteria? Is the business culture of Anvard such that “everyone who matters” knows how to “look at Llaveracs as Llaveracs do?”)

By: Minivet

Minivet — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:05:59 +0000

Hm. As I understand it, all the music and books we recognize in the Finderverse come from the Pastwatch Institute, rather than historical preservation. Panel 1 implies that they can be owned, i.e., people can get copyrights on them despite their age. Maybe Pastwatch auctions them off or something. But further and more important, if these franchises can be considered part of a “family fortune,” does that imply copyright term is perpetual here?

By: jean

jean — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:27:23 +0000

re. tucking — contemporary humans of actual-Earth, c. 2010, can and do do this too, with no permanent effects and simply for visual/aesthetic purposes. there is a semi-hollow space back behind there whence the testicles descended: you simply tuck the whole package back & up, throw on a couple of tight pairs of panties, and you’re good to go!

By: Oneiros

Oneiros — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:11:34 +0000

Hacksaw, it seems the general consensus that Rachel is a newbie Finder at this point. Her point of initiation was the last storyline, called “Voice”, which I’m not sure you were able to read. “Voice” happened before this LightSpeedPress website got a WordPress makeover, so its pages were not preserved online. In “Voice”, Rachel seeks to win a spot in the Llaverac pageant so she can be entitled to the benefits of being part of the Llaverac clan. She needs a clan ring to do so, and hers gets stolen. She seeks Jaeger to help her find the ring, and in the process of that seeking, she becomes a Finder, putting that Finder tattoo pattern on her neck by the end of the storyline.

By: Peter Tupper

Peter Tupper — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:06:03 +0000

Ever since I read “Sin Eater”, I’ve wondered if Jaeger is CSM’s “strong misreading” (as Harold Bloom would put it) of Wolverine: rural guy with shady, violent background, regenerative abilities, quasi-parental/romantic relationships with much younger women, but removed from the genre restrictions of American superhero comics. More trickster than noble savage/brooding anti-hero.

By: salvage

salvage — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:17:18 +0000

Carla…Speed…*McNeill*… wow, I’m just a nexus of fail today.

By: salvage

salvage — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:15:01 +0000

Facepalm, I mean Girl Comics features Carla Speed O’Neill *drawing* Wolverine and a super-Llaverac-looking Kitty Pryde. I’m used to her both writing and pencilling; and (probably incorrectly) when talking about author/illustrators I tend to say that they write their series rather than “she draws”. But still! Check it out. It’s mindblowing in a grand unified nerd theory way.

By: Oneiros

Oneiros — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:50:35 +0000

Whoa. Carla writing Wolverine. And drawing?

Hmpf, I was misreading your post.

By: salvage

salvage — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:19:49 +0000

By the way! I just got your Marvel Girl issue, saw Wolverine and Kitty Pryde bonding (not quite as poignantly as Rachel and Jaeger’s hug a few chapters back, but whatever), and squeed my fool head off in the local hipster comic store. IT’S CARLA SPEED MCNEIL, I tried to explain to the puzzled counter guy, SHE’S WRITING WOLVERINE. IT’S LIKE A WONDERFUL COMICS OUROBOROUS.