What's this? Comic news that actually makes me kinda happy?

[meganbmoore]

http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/july07/previews/previews.html

Black Canary mini written by Tony Bedard, art by Paulo Sequeira(who did some Birds of Prey issues but I don't recall which issues off the top of my head so I don't know how good a thing that is...thumbnails look ok, though)

Upside?  Back Canary mini written by Bedard.

Downside?  Dunno, really.  I see Dinah still has the kid in tow and...well...ok, when Sin grows up and starts superheroing, she's going to rock.  But right now she irritates me.  Though I'd rathe have her than Misfit, who annoys the *hem* out of me...I really don't care for the "fannish stalkerish superhero groupie extension of  self who worms way into team" charactertype...only exception is Hindsight Lad, and that took a long time and unlike Gail with Misfit, Fabes never thought he was cute or endearing, and it makes a huge difference. Course, Marvel completely and utterly destroyed Hindsight by making him no good OOC wretched treacherous DIEDIEDIe scum and...STOP! BAD MEGS! HAPPY POST! HAPPY!

BLACK CANARY MINI!
NEW COMIC I CARE ABOUT!
YAY!

*avoids the deep dark pit of Marvel hate just inches from her feet.*

Wow...two non anime/manga/dorama posts in a row.  *shiny*

*I have no Black canary icons and this is the closest thing I have, and that's only because Yuya is blonde.  Yeah, I suck.*

Comments

[roily-rogue.livejournal.com]

I'm more worried about him hooking her up with Anotsu.

Oh dear. That would be...less age difference, but more wrong. I doubt it will happen, but...noooo, I don't even want to think about it.

Magatsu I figure has a 50-50 chance...boy has serious suicidal tendencies that he needs to get past.

Oh yes. One day he's just gonna have to make his mind up between "Must get chopped up" and "Must survive getting chopped up".

Samura made a relatively big deal about Magatsu trying to spare her mother from the rape(and I've always thought the main reason he didn't pull Rin out with him was because the others had essentially forgotten about her and that would have made her a target, Anotsu or no Anotsu)

Yeah. I think Magatsu did the best he could in that particular situation (although the ideal would of course be that he wasn't there killing people in the first place ;).

Rin's reaction when she saw Magatsu wasn't nearly the reaction she had to other Itto Ryu associated with that night, and most of it was centered on finding her father's sword...Magatsu was there, but he didn't kill her father and tried to spare her mother, which puts him in a different category from the others. Others she wanted dead and/or apologizing...him she just wanted the sword back from. I figure forgiveness is considerably less of an issue with him that it is others.

True. Rin doesn't know about Magatsu's story, does she? Would she forgive him in a heartbeat if she did?

I think having Manji as an example is why, if he lives and gets over this "Throwing himself into fights to get chopped up" thing of his, he'll be OK.

That's possible, but even before he met Manji, he seemed to have a relatively strong sense of ethics all on his own, like on the night Rin's parents were killed. His only real problem seems to be his blind hate for anything Bakufu and he seems to be losing his passion for even that. When getting ready for his fight with Giichi, his hate flared up in, like, one panel, and the rest of the time it was like "Hey, I know it's petty and all, but it's just a principle thing, you know?"

Years back, when I first got into the fandom and actually posted on the email group, I had this theory that Giichi would turn out to be Magatsu's brother. It sounds silly and it probably is (I was like "they have similar eyebrows!"), but just the idea of him finding out that his brother worked for the Bakufu was enough for me to wish it was true. I was thinking that Giichi shaved his head to hide the family spikes and put on dark glasses to not show the facial resemblance. Hrm.
It's probably not very likely, given what we have heard of him at this point (and the fact that Magatsu having a brother has never even been mentioned, heh), but I still pet the theory now and then, just because it would stir things up majorly for Magatsu.

Heh. It's not much...when I first saw it, Rin saw Manji walking alone and he looked REALLY bulky, then when he got close up, Magatsu was beside him. Granted, what probably REALLY happened was Magatsu was coming back from another direction they they met up along the way, but my version is more fun.

Let's go with your version (*imagines Manji dropping Magatsu like a hot sack of potatoes when realizing they're being watched*).

Do you remember off the top of your head when it is he saves Manji with the coin?

I don't remember the issue number, but it was his grand entrance to the fights by the lake, against Anotsu's wife's dojo people. Manji was fighting two guys and about to get skewered, when a coin suddenly hit one of the guys in the eye. Cut to Magatsu standing in the distance with another coin in hand, saying something along the lines of "Hey, Manji, here's the rest of the money I owe you".
That scene deserves to be immortalized.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. That would be...less age difference, but more wrong. I doubt it will happen, but...noooo, I don't even want to think about it.

yeah, but it's been hinted at a bit. I think, though, that ity's just going to be her with him when he dies or something.

Oh yes. One day he's just gonna have to make his mind up between "Must get chopped up" and "Must survive getting chopped up".

very much so, though i think it's more "don't care if i get chopped up as long as i win" than "must get chopped up"

Yeah. I think Magatsu did the best he could in that particular situation (although the ideal would of course be that he wasn't there killing people in the first place ;).

yeah. though, he didn't kill her father, either. mostly he looked like he really didn't want to be there in that scene it always seemed to me that he thought it was more about "your granddad was mean to my granddad so my granddad beat me up when i was a kid"(which, you know, is what it was when you strip it down) than about anything else, and killing and raping people who were going about their business wasnt what he signed up for.

True. Rin doesn't know about Magatsu's story, does she? Would she forgive him in a heartbeat if she did?

I don't think she associates him with the rest of it that much, anyway. Even when he showed up to help Manji, it was "huh? he's with Manji?" as opposed to "ITTO RYU!!! DIEDIEDIE!!!" and then when she was kidnapped, she was confused that he was one of the kidnappers.

That's possible, but even before he met Manji, he seemed to have a relatively strong sense of ethics all on his own, like on the night Rin's parents were killed. His only real problem seems to be his blind hate for anything Bakufu and he seems to be losing his passion for even that. When getting ready for his fight with Giichi, his hate flared up in, like, one panel, and the rest of the time it was like "Hey, I know it's petty and all, but it's just a principle thing, you know?"

Magatsu has a more defined sense of morals and ethics than most BotI characters, which is one of the things that makes him about the most awesome thing ever. He's growing up, which means he's starting to figure out that hatred doesn't get you anywhere, but he's spent so much time being ruled by it that it's opening a big hole in him and he doesn't have anything to fill it up with yet. With Giichi, it was very much a case of what he thought he SHOULD do, as opposed to anything he wanted to do.

Interesting Idea about the brothers stuff.

Let's go with your version (*imagines Manji dropping Magatsu like a hot sack of potatoes when realizing they're being watched*).

Yes, because it's fun. And it fits the scene and characters.

[roily-rogue.livejournal.com]

Magatsu has a more defined sense of morals and ethics than most BotI characters, which is one of the things that makes him about the most awesome thing ever. He's growing up, which means he's starting to figure out that hatred doesn't get you anywhere, but he's spent so much time being ruled by it that it's opening a big hole in him and he doesn't have anything to fill it up with yet.

So true. I'd say "poor Magatsu", but meh. I have confidence that he will find his way eventually, provided Samura lets him stay alive.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Rin, Magatsu and Hyakurin are the ones where I just don't see any point in Samura killing them except to be mean, and samura isnt mean just to be mean(though he can be incredibly mean at times.)