[comics] Poll time / canon-consistency in fic (DCU)

[glossing]

The context for this post - besides, of course, my usual overweening neuroses - is that I'm currently writing a fic set about a year/18 months *after* the 52/missing year. I'm also reading, usually through unhappy eyes, current canon

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[caiusmajor]

I answered 'yes' to about being pleased with current canon, because (in comparison to, say, a lot of people I know) I'm definitely reading and enjoying. But...as with, I think, anyone who's been in comics fandom for more than ten minutes, there are certain Things In Current Canon about which you should Not Get Me Started.

I tend to assume that most fic will not be altogether canon-consistent, but it's useful and appreciated if people make note of which canon they're using or diverging from.

[glossing]

*nodnod* We all have our bugbears, big and small, but so long as you're enjoying (rather than crying and/or throwing things), I think that counts as "pleased". *g*

it's useful and appreciated if people make note of which canon they're using or diverging from.
Yeah, that's how I feel, too. I'm just working myself into knots for no good reason. AS USUAL.

(And, hee, Green Arrow's one of the more popular titles! w000t!)

[mizzmarvel]

The only DCU current canon I'm reading right now, other than a few random issues here and there, is Trials of Shazam.

[glossing]

*facepalm* I knew I left out a title I like, and that's it. It's *far* preferable to whatever's going on with Mary in Countdown, that's for sure.

[mizzmarvel]

Honestly, I'm so apathetic about what's going on with DC right now that, other than non-DCU-proper Gen 13, it and Monster Society of Evil are the only titles I'm reading from them. It's not that I hate everything - I just found that the times when I came away truly pleased with my other titles were few and far between. And believe me, apathy never stopped me from reading before, but now that I have to, you know, *support* myself, I can't buy as much as I'd like.

But the Marvels! They are inherently made of happy.

[glossing]

Monster Society of Evil is *stunning*, isn't it? The Marvels truly are love and happy and anti-Nazi awesomesauce - now that I think about it, they're like Captain America, really. :D

[glossing]

I have NO IDEA why Holly seems to be on the run, why she won't call Karon (OTP!), nor (and, oddly, this is just as important to me) why she has BRUCE AND DICK listed with Selina and Karon. (And who the hell is Davey? *blank*). I am filled with anxiety and upsetment about all of these, and it's not just because they Joss my current fic (where, among other things, Holly & Karon team up with Jay & Dick Robbie Malone), but because, out of Pfeifer's careful hands, I fear what's going to happen.

Maybe "Davey" is the name she knows Tim by in Gotham's queer scene? That might make me feel a little better.

As for stories, I really don't give a flying fuck
Yay, good to know! *g*

[katarik]

I answered 'no' to enjoying current canon, because the reason I read so little is that I don't like what's going on. In what I read, like Manhunter and Blue Beetle and so forth, I generally like what's happening.

<3 <3 <3

(I swear I will get to reviewing the Bruce/Jason of twisting Kat's brains all about! But I can't *breathe* when I reread it, any more than I could breathe the first time, because I get all sucked in and it's like reading poetry, strange and terribly lovely and rich and fanged, about two of the characters I love most.)

[glossing]

*cheekslap* I forgot BB and Manhunter. Argh.

Thanks muchly for the clarification - I'm surprised, actually, by the high level of "generally pleased" people are out there. (I guess we need to wait for petronelle to come home from work?)

No worries about the Bruce/Jason feedback - what you've said here is *amazing*. At any rate, the story seems to be proving difficult to feed. Or read. Or something. I just wish I knew *why*.

[katarik]

I recced it to nokomis305, who was just as awed as I said she'd be, and she also promises to fb.

I think it's so hard to review because it's so *dense*, so rich and brain-twisty, that by the time you -- I, at least -- get to the end you just kinda sit there gibbering for a sec.

It's like really good, dark, dense cake. You eat it and you have to *process*.

[petronelle]

You set up your poll such that people would have to actually be reading in order to register displeasure, neatly excluding my BOFQ self.

I am with Kat re: Bruce/Jason feedback -- it blew my mind, and I am still blown, plus being more tired than tired from RL of late.

I *will* get back to you at great length about that story. I will not say 'ad nauseum,' because I have never been nauseated by vast feedback and I expect you haven't either.

[re_white]

I had to stop reading my regular diet of DC titles because every time I walked into my local comic book store to pick up new issues I got indigestion. It was a question of fannish health. So I cut back to just Green Arrow and even the boys in green are harshing my fangirl high these days. It seems to be going around. More than ever DC fandom seems to have set up camp about a dozen or so issues back in the timeline/canon and that sounds about right to me.

But. When it comes to fic and current canon I’m very easy, especially if it’s done by an author I trust (such as you). Even if the slant is distinctly AU, fanfiction is the only way you’re going to win me over wrt current canon. I just won’t touch it these days unless fic persuades me to, which is what I think a lot of fic specifically based on the current canon is trying to do just about now. For the record, I love that. I love how DC fandom tends to give loads of affection to attempts at fannish redemption of canon. So my vote is that you try not to let the writerly neurosis win

[glossing]

Other than Checkmate, the Marvels and Flash (because Bart in any form is sure to get me, so long as he's alive), Green Arrow's the only title I'm consistently enjoying. JUDD WINICK, ALL IS FORGIVEN.

*cough*

I can only nod vehemently to your second paragraph - before I got into comicsdom, I never really liked fic-as-fixit. But your description of "redemption of canon" strikes just the right chord with me, definitely.

And thank you, seriously, for the reassurance.