{"id":3141,"date":"2010-03-04T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:30:14","slug":"for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=3141","title":{"rendered":"FOR JUSTICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, JLA: Cry For Justice #7.\u00c2\u00a0 What in blue fuck was that!?<\/em><\/p>\n

In the first act of the Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem<\/em>, the filmmakers do the inviolate – they kill a kid and his dog. We’re not attached to the kid or the dog – I couldn’t even tell you their names – so the act basically serves as a message to the audience that, for the next hour and thirty minutes, we will not be fucking around here.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a moment full of declarative force and while it’s shocking, it’s also happening in a monster movie that is a response to a bowdlerized AvP<\/em> as much as it is a sequel to it.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes sense. It has an impact because it makes sense.<\/p>\n

Did I just defend killing kids?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, fictional killings and fictional kids, but I’m not going to write the whole idea off with a “NEVER!”\u00c2\u00a0 There’s always at least one good use for even the worst idea. Angelina Jolie married Billy Bob Thornton<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Why do I bring this up? So that you know where my limits are when I tell you that the cheap and thoughtless killing off of Lian Harper is crass, insulting bullshit storytelling and that whatever member of DC’s Powers That Be who said “Yes, that’s an excellent idea!”\u00c2\u00a0 should have one final, fleeting moment of humanity as they lie down in a casket filled with the rich and loamy soil of their homeland as the dawn approaches and stake themselves.<\/p>\n

I mean, I guess that we should maybe be thankful that Doctor Light wasn’t involved. Right?\u00c2\u00a0 I guess we should be thankful that Mirror Master didn’t do a line of coke off of her eight year old corpse, or that Superboy Prime didn’t squash her head like a grape or that Deathstroke the Terminator didn’t brainwash her with syringes full of mind control drugs or whatever.\u00c2\u00a0 At least she didn’t grow up into some hateable melange legacy character called “Red Cheshire” who’d get ignominiously executed during a linewide “Crisis” event. At least it was just a bomb<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Fuck you, DC Comics.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t even like Roy Harper – NOBODY likes Roy Fucking Harper, for crying out loud, but you’ve just gotten rid of the one thing <\/em>that makes him interesting that isn’t a crippling heroin addiction or a severe case of juvenile overcompensation.\u00c2\u00a0 Congratulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, JLA: Cry For Justice #7.\u00c2\u00a0 What in blue fuck was that!? In the first act of the Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem, the filmmakers do the inviolate – they kill a kid and his dog. We’re not attached to the kid or the dog – I couldn’t even tell you their names – so the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[413,11],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-comics","tag-dc-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}