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How does anyone get Texas as the host of Charlton's Point, when the comics-publishing company that city was named for was based in Connecticut?

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/la6ilu/fictional_us_cities_of_the_dc_universe/

Current Mood: curious

I might have returned to reading the DC Universe titles for this. Maybe. It's an intriguing set-up, and a definite return to a saga of generations for the DCU line of comics series.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/first-time-full-dc-comics-timeline-dan-didio/

Current Mood: Intrigued!
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: Cross-Country Checkup on CBC Radio

At least, that seems to be the line DC's promoting today.

Got a fun Bat-related story, anyone?

A work in progress, clearly.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home

Yes, I just saw the reports on Variety and THR, and some discussion on TrekBBS.

Perhaps this isn't the surprise that I first thought.

Between the spinal injuries on the set, the allergic reactions to costume-related make-up, the similar and more permanent injury of a production assistant on location, the constant abuse from toxic "fans" that she's certainly been dealing with, whether the abuse is because she's "out" or because her character is...and then, there's the simple fact of the "60-80 hour work weeks 9 months a year in the Vancouver rain" before any of the rest of that gets factored in.

Whatever the reasons for her choice, I hope Ruby Rose has a good life, that she lives long and prospers with peace of mind and heart through it all. Thank you for your performances. You brought joy and wonder, danger and excitement, and a set of ideals behind it all. Thank you for taking this chance.

To whoever's next up to wear that cape and wig and ride those motorcycles: whoever you are, I look forward to seeing you do your best with the people around you on both sides of the camera. I hope you find your own joy and wonder in this work in progress, and that it will keep you around for the long term. And I thank you for taking this chance.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Batwoman Anthem - Blake Neely

This may be a mildly amusing error, and no more than that. In today's hardcopy edition of the Globe and Mail, that storied newspaper reminds us that On This Date, Detective Comics # 27, featuring the first appearance of the Batman was allegedly released to the public. The decades-long tendency of comics publishers to release issues two months ahead of the published cover date has apparently not occurred to the people handling that that item on page A2.

Therefore, a possibly amusing error.

Current Mood: busy

I saw the movie tonight. I trusted to Gail Simone's recommendation on this, and got my time and money's worth. Seemed like every character with a speaking part was swearing a blue streak, but this time, so what? This really felt like Gotham to me.

Thanks, Gail.

Current Mood: satisfied

1. There was a time when I think we DCU fans were all convinced that Thanagar actually orbited its universe's analogue of Polaris AKA Alpha Ursae Minoris, rather than a star that *Thanagarians* called "Polaris". Given what we know now about the real Polaris, the former situation is highly unlikely.

However, we *do* know more about the real Polaris than we used to...

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/how-far-away-is-polaris

2. Re: the Gamma Hydrae neighbourhood - I suspect there are data gaps that GAIA DR 2 can fill in here.

http://whitten.org/index.php?x_c=67.216&y_c=-77.0227&z_c=83.5617&xy_zoom=20&z_zoom=20&m_limit=&select_star=47425&image_type=normal&image_size=1200&max_line=7&trek_names=1

3. On the subject of Beta Cygni/Albireo - has anyone ever used that as the setting of a story? (Note to TrekMapping people: would the components of Albireo be *in* or *outside* of Breen territory?) - here's an interesting exchange:

https://twitter.com/SkyscraperJim/status/1026550645329776640

4. Good news for starmap builders in general:

https://twitter.com/mfouesneau/status/1026846200367128576

5. Seeing that at least one episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation, and an entire campaign sourcebook for the role-playing game 2300 AD were using the Pleiades star cluster as either a backdrop or a campaign goal, it seems to me that some of my friendlisters might be interested in this particular research paper on the distance to the Pleiades.

http://arxiver.moonhats.com/2018/08/10/around-the-pleiades-ima/

Current Mood: nerdy

It occurs to me that, despite the relative proximity of Beta Pic to Sol at 64 lightyears (barring updates from GAIA DR 2 or later), we're still not ever going to see any planets finish forming in our lifetimes. Nor that of our entire biosphere, probably.

The same goes for the protagonists of Star Trek, Babylon 5, The Expanse, Honor Harrington, the Legion of Super-Heroes, the 31st Century incarnations of the Guardians of the Galaxy, etc..

Here's what set off my thought:

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=39109

Current Mood: nerdy

Just finished watching the last quarter of the "Invasion!" crossover via Legends of Tomorrow. It was definitely fun, and I've read about some of the stuff that ended up edited out for broadcast time constraints. Sorry about not seeing those sidebar scenes on the screen.

And yet, I'm grateful for what we got.

The new US President on Earth-Arrowverse? Just seeing her left me in tears...and seeing Donnelly Rhodes on the TV screen one more time...grateful for that.

Current Mood: grateful

My thanks to John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell, Bob Greenberger, Karl Kesel...and there are others as well. But those four got the ball rolling back in 1986 and without that, the movie wouldn't be today.

Perception was kind enough to upload a case study of their work on Batman v Superman this week. That case study includes a map of the Metropolis-Gotham region as envisioned for the movies DC and WB have been making.

That map clearly does not hew to the maps of the two cities as published in the comics over the last couple of decades. Granted, the production team had the right to plant the two super-cities ten miles and a harbour apart from each other. Speaking for myself alone, I'd hoped that Byrne's Six Boroughs as originally drawn up for Metropolis in 1986, as well as the islands of Eliot Brown's 2000 map of Gotham could've made the cut.

Oh well...this is its own thing to begin with.

Current Mood: nerdy

Mr. Scheurer is one of the people who worked on designs for BvS. Apparently, he had a big hand in the look and feel of the "Snyderverse" version of Gotham City.

You might want to have a look.

Thanks to io9.com for the pointer.

Current Mood: nerdy

Note to Warner Bros.: If you're going to put "visitgothamcity.com" on the license plates of Gothamites' cars, trucks, buses, etc. in your movies, maybe it might be a good thing to actually have a site for people to visit using that URL?

Had a thought...

( ...that is certainly in speculative/spoiler turf... )

And I'll just leave that there behind the cut. I'll probably edit that out in about a month after original posting, if that's alright.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: "What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World?" - Hans Zimmer

A conclusion I've reached after watching this week's episode...

Something I'd be glad to start seeing on The Flash?

In the credits: "Based on the series created by Gardner Fox, Harry Lampert and Carmine Infantino".

Could that happen at some point in 2016?

Current Mood: hopeful

Just had a leaf-through at the local public library, specifically the first post-Flashpoint Flash collection, Move Forward, featuring Francis Manapul's material.

I have a vague feeling we covered this before...here or elsewhere...but anyway:

Did Manapul really go and replace all the existing Keystone-Central neighbourhood names with names of cities and neighbourhoods from the Greater Toronto Area? I had to take off my glasses and squint and I'm still not sure that I actually saw names like Vaughan, Pickering, Scarborough, and so forth on the map that showed up in that hardcover.

For your education and possible amusement:

KC Carlson waxes nostalgic on Tenzil Kem, Matter-Eater Lad, Senator to the planetary Congress of Bismoll, semi-secret agent and lobbyist at large...in several iterations of the DC Universe, anyway!

One of the best things Paul Levitz ever did was set Tenzil up for his new careers by getting him cured of his neurological/chemical issues, by my lights. Keith Giffen and Tom and Mary Bierbaum proved that. Anyway, go read the linked opinion piece.

I'll be back later with other stuff.

Current Mood: amused

Not sure how much of a surprise this was to me this morning as I read my e-mail and stuff before going off to work:

http://comicsbeat.com/jh-williams-iii-and-w-haden-blackman-quit-batwoman-over-editorial-interference/

Considering that Marvel actually showed Northstar's marriage on-camera in Astonishing X-Men last year, I am surprised that this version of Batwoman wasn't to be accorded the same treatment.

Current Mood: contemplative

Well, thanks to Darren Doyle over at kryptonian.info, we now have a font based on E. Nelson Bridwell's Silver Age written Kryptonian.

Been wanting to finish my own version of that alphabet for a few years now as a proper font. Maybe I can make some time for it over the next few weekends?

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: Money Can't Buy It - Annie Lennox