on superheroes in the DCU
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dcdailylife, which is a challenge to write fic with you in the DCU. Going about your normal job/life with added superheroes int he background. One girl's written about doing the McDonalds nightshift and the problems of the Flash ordering 20 cheeseburgers. (I've *been there*. In my teens. At Burger King. flashback augh!) One girl about waiting around at the hospital when your mum's undergoing ongoing hospital visits and reading headlines and people wandering on and out of the room.
And I'm just wondering. In the DCU, is the UK ever really used as anything than a passing-through point unless it's the Vertigo end of the 'verse? I... just can't imagine any mainstream DCU characters passing through London unless it's Zatanna.
I mostly read Bat comics when I was a hardcore comics reader, with things like Starman and Green Arrow and the Birds on the side. (me? have a thing for non-powered heroes with big sprawling families? NEVER.) Plus things like Supergirl (Peter David version) and Young Justice. So I never really noticed if there would be UK action, because that kind of comic is seriously, seriously home-city based unless you count one-issue trips to Antarctica. Still keep up on what's vaguely happening throughscans_daily, but thassabout it.
So just pondering : is it still like John Constantine quoted in Books of Magic? No superheroes, plenty of weird, and magic and so on, but spandex...well, to quote a certain chain-smoking git called Wisdom, if you wore spandex, you'd probably get laughed at. When Marvel set a bunch of books in the UK in the 80s, it was still heavily magic and weird-based. And gritty and tired at the edges in the way even the crime books like GCPD and 100 Bullets never seem to be.
dcdailylife, which is a challenge to write fic with you in the DCU. Going about your normal job/life with added superheroes int he background. One girl's written about doing the McDonalds nightshift and the problems of the Flash ordering 20 cheeseburgers. (I've *been there*. In my teens. At Burger King. flashback augh!) One girl about waiting around at the hospital when your mum's undergoing ongoing hospital visits and reading headlines and people wandering on and out of the room.And I'm just wondering. In the DCU, is the UK ever really used as anything than a passing-through point unless it's the Vertigo end of the 'verse? I... just can't imagine any mainstream DCU characters passing through London unless it's Zatanna.
I mostly read Bat comics when I was a hardcore comics reader, with things like Starman and Green Arrow and the Birds on the side. (me? have a thing for non-powered heroes with big sprawling families? NEVER.) Plus things like Supergirl (Peter David version) and Young Justice. So I never really noticed if there would be UK action, because that kind of comic is seriously, seriously home-city based unless you count one-issue trips to Antarctica. Still keep up on what's vaguely happening through
scans_daily, but thassabout it.So just pondering : is it still like John Constantine quoted in Books of Magic? No superheroes, plenty of weird, and magic and so on, but spandex...well, to quote a certain chain-smoking git called Wisdom, if you wore spandex, you'd probably get laughed at. When Marvel set a bunch of books in the UK in the 80s, it was still heavily magic and weird-based. And gritty and tired at the edges in the way even the crime books like GCPD and 100 Bullets never seem to be.
