Comments on: Fourcast! 02: She Is Her Own Mother

By: versasovantare

versasovantare — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:50:57 +0000

On the subject of heroic genes, I do have one or two tidbits.
The first is that Bruce Wayne’s ancestors, when they lived in Scotland, took part in the Highland Clearances. I think that went down in ‘The Scottish Connection’.

Also, in a quite possibly non-canon storyline, Bruce is revealed to be descended from Sir Gawain from Arthurian mythology. So that’d be another heroic connection, though I suppose Gawain was a bit if a cock-up.

By: versasovantare

versasovantare — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:55:13 +0000

“Another great Fourcast folks. I loved the “Continuity Off”…hearing that stuff makes you wonder why more superheroes don’t just end their lives with how screwed up their lives are.”

Because they’d just come back, duh!

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By: david brothers

david brothers — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:01:44 +0000

“My father… did an open-heart surgery with his bare hands… he punched the ribcage open, grabbed the heart with both hands, pulled it out, and slammed another in. He was the first to do bare-hand open-heart surgery, and the best…”

By: Derk van Santvoort

Derk van Santvoort — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:45:59 +0000

Weekly, cool.

The issue of JLA where Batman talks about the lives his dad saved is issue 72. Turns out you gravely underestimated the man when you said he saved only a thousand people: “My father… saved the lives… of four thousand people, one at a time… with his bare hands and his mind” (pg. 9). Yeah.

Your discussion about the quality of Frank Quitely’s art reminds me of another artist about whom I feel much the same way, Steve Dillon. His people are not actually ‘beautiful’ (this is especially apparent when it comes to his women, Kit from the Ennis/Dillon Hellblazer run was supposed to be this stunning, gorgeous woman, but she didn’t look it under Dillon). But there are few (none?) artists that can do facial expressions, emotions, body language and basic storytelling as well as Dillon does it.