Re: DC - I ABSOLUTELY follow characters not titles too. It's the only sane way to do it, I think. I also rigorously adhere to personal canon, which is weirdly, I think, easier in DC than Marvel with their habit of declaring "CRISIS OF REALITY! NEW LEVEL!" and just keeping all the shit they arbitrarily like at that moment and ditching the rest, like infinite ultimate remakes. I read these things like myths and legends retold and retold; a million versions are true, so I will pick the one I like best (and, obviously, still RAGE at the ones I find offensively stupid or out of character because what, I am an internet geek!)
I didn't read the old BoP much but the new one is actually kind of fun. It's like...a spy thriller kind of thing. Honestly it's a little slowmoving for me, like it's deliberately playing with perspective and time and who knows what when and I'm like WAIT I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON ALREADY but it's well-written, the art is nice and not icky and you know, it's still a comic about girls being friends. The line-up is Black Canary, Starling (new character, a friend of Dinah's), Katana (a character who has been problematically portrayed in the past, but it's nice the team isn't entirely white), POISON IVY (no rly) and Batgirl (though she only joins a few issues in, and obvs, she's not Oracle anymore so your tolerance may vary on that point). It's good stuff though and there's only 6 issues so far, so easy to catch up on. It has adorable moments like Starling driving a car through a church to grab Canary from out of a firefight, muttering, "hang on, sweetie," and the dude sat next to her going, "I AM!" and her going, "I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU."
Re: Emma Frost - dude I cannot understand any of Marvel, like, at all and even I know Emma Frost is the awesome boss queen of the universe. ♥ and also a really good example of a sexualised costume that works. For me, at least in part this is because it feels unique to her; it doesn't look like any other sexy superhero costume. It feels more like eveningwear; it's actually beautiful as well as revealing.
No lie, I went to see new Muppet movie today (if you're in North America - it came out months later in the UK for some reason), and we also got a free Avengers vs X-Men prequel/intro comic at the comic store, so we were talking (OBVIOUSLY) about how the next Muppet movie should be The X-Muppets and we were in total agreement that clearly Piggy was Emma Frost.
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Re: DC - I ABSOLUTELY follow characters not titles too. It's the only sane way to do it, I think. I also rigorously adhere to personal canon, which is weirdly, I think, easier in DC than Marvel with their habit of declaring "CRISIS OF REALITY! NEW LEVEL!" and just keeping all the shit they arbitrarily like at that moment and ditching the rest, like infinite ultimate remakes. I read these things like myths and legends retold and retold; a million versions are true, so I will pick the one I like best (and, obviously, still RAGE at the ones I find offensively stupid or out of character because what, I am an internet geek!)
I didn't read the old BoP much but the new one is actually kind of fun. It's like...a spy thriller kind of thing. Honestly it's a little slowmoving for me, like it's deliberately playing with perspective and time and who knows what when and I'm like WAIT I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON ALREADY but it's well-written, the art is nice and not icky and you know, it's still a comic about girls being friends. The line-up is Black Canary, Starling (new character, a friend of Dinah's), Katana (a character who has been problematically portrayed in the past, but it's nice the team isn't entirely white), POISON IVY (no rly) and Batgirl (though she only joins a few issues in, and obvs, she's not Oracle anymore so your tolerance may vary on that point). It's good stuff though and there's only 6 issues so far, so easy to catch up on. It has adorable moments like Starling driving a car through a church to grab Canary from out of a firefight, muttering, "hang on, sweetie," and the dude sat next to her going, "I AM!" and her going, "I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU."
Re: Emma Frost - dude I cannot understand any of Marvel, like, at all and even I know Emma Frost is the awesome boss queen of the universe. ♥ and also a really good example of a sexualised costume that works. For me, at least in part this is because it feels unique to her; it doesn't look like any other sexy superhero costume. It feels more like eveningwear; it's actually beautiful as well as revealing.
No lie, I went to see new Muppet movie today (if you're in North America - it came out months later in the UK for some reason), and we also got a free Avengers vs X-Men prequel/intro comic at the comic store, so we were talking (OBVIOUSLY) about how the next Muppet movie should be The X-Muppets and we were in total agreement that clearly Piggy was Emma Frost.
Final note: LOVE your icon. :D