[ SECRET POST #2109 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2109 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #301.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Original anon with the long-winded post.

We...don't talk about Roy. Favorite character for so very, very long. Deserved more than he got under so many authors, and then Cry for Justice happened, and the the fallout. And then, in the very last damn issue of The Titans we got to see him back, just for a moment. And then he ended.

And we have...whatever Lobdell's abomination is. I lasted four issues.

So, yeah. I'll admit DC has flawed characters, but with most of them it's a different kind of flawed. Basically I used to view it as DC being the optimistic characters. The paragons of what we COULD be, if we tried hard enough. Which I love.

And Marvel was more...what we might be. Some of them are complete assholes. Some of them are total idiots who need to be clobbered over the head. It's not pessimistic, and usually the good guys win the day, but it's been darker for quite some time. More like reality, if reality included mutants and supersoldiers and insanely awesome tech.

Don't get me wrong, in my comic reading "reality" isn't always what I want. I have equal love for various titles and characters from both publishers. I grabbed onto and fell in love with the optimism of Lemire's Superboy run and the final run of Power Girl. Indeed, both of those final issues made me cry. Superboy realizing he had a home and that he was weird, but so were his friends and everyone else, and Power Girl saying "fuck this noise" about having to make a choice and defeating all odds to save EVERYONE*. I cried. And then they were both dead. Kon replaced by a monstrosity that makes zero logical sense even in comic book terms, and Peej by, uh, a completely different person.

*Actually, this is exactly what I mean about the difference. It used to be that such things were what DC would DO. Everyone would live, somehow. Then they got dark, but I still think of them as the label where things will go right through sheer force of will (and then the reboot happened and I realized everyone I loved was basically functionally dead). Whereas Marvel characters WOULD make the decision, for better or worse. They'd fight against it with every scrap of their being, but in the end, if Peej was Marvel, she really would have had to choose between saving her friend, the tourists or the village.

Sorry, got long again. But, yeah. I have spent a year trying insanely hard to forget about Roy, and it's still a raw wound. ;_;