( 6 covers total - the one for WatXM is my fave )

Source: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36902

In Honor’s Paradox, Jame completes her training at Tentir despite continuing attempts by other houses to get her kicked out. The general operation of the plot tends to revolve around Jame being a catalyst of sorts for correcting problems that she comes across. (This could be said to be the case for all of the books, but in this case, the beneficial results outweigh the usual negative and catastrophic ones.) Various secrets are revealed, Tori shows a lot of progress in learning to accept Shanir in general and his sister in specific, and Kindrie continues to develop a spine. (As a special bonus, Graykin also seems to be developing a sense of perspective.)

The book begins with Ashe retelling the story about how Gerridon decided to make a deal with Perimal Darkling.

Ok, my personal golden rule about Star Wars is "post stuff about Star Wars only if it's cool".

This is cool, courtesy of ComicsAlliance.com.

The Force is strong with this one.

( Bad ass, this is. )

HELLO SCANS DAILY

We (the mod team) bring you an apology. And some nice news! And some bad news. But then we think about the good news again!

Now the moderation at s_d here has been just a little bit slack lately. We've been doing our best - and some of us have been doing overtime, which has been internally appreciated! - but: things have not been smooth as the hair on Wolverine's everywhere. This is seen clearly in the five-month gap between requests posts that I brought you prior to January. Beggin' your pardon!

We've been working from the back foot for a good few months for various 'IRL/other reponsibilities/general problems' reasons and unfortunately, (this is the bad news) we're saying goodbye to sandoz_iscariot and kingrockwell as mod team members.

They've served us long and well, and we pop little party streamer things at their departure. Godspeed!

The good news, though - we've got some new kids on our block.

Put your heads together to welcome your new overlords - aeka and sistermagpie.

Hurrah! More party streamers!

The mod team, as it stands, for your convenience: Myself (greenmask), benicio127, salinea, shobogan, sistermagpie, and aeka. Get in touch if you need us; the mod email's in the community profile. We're here to make the community work.

Haywire. Dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2011.

I went to see this movie with my awesome roommate N. We were not the only pair of women in the theater who saw the movie at least partly because of Michael Fassbender, as was made clear by the woman in front of us jumping into our geeky conversation pre-previews, and the women behind us squealing when he first showed up on screen. Ah, fandom.

But Haywire! I cannot quite recommend the movie whole-heartedly, for reasons upon which I shall elaborate, but I can recommend that you see it. It is well worth seeing, because the female protagonist, Mallory, is an absolute BAMF. And, as probably a lot of people know, Gina Carano, who plays Mallory, has the martial arts background and training to pull off all the fights with complete realism. Complete realism, actually, is the hallmark of this movie and its treatment of Mallory and her way of getting things done, and I very much liked that about it. MALLORY IS AMAZING.

The thing about Soderbergh is that his movies are so very often rather sardonic--this plays very well with some of his movies, such as the Ocean's films, but in this film the decidedly sardonic tone sat rather at odds with the actual plot of the story, in which Mallory, a former Marine now working as an independent security contractor, is set up for murder by her ex-boyfriend and current boss, and doesn't take kindly to it.

( Spoilers are keeping their eyes open )

Many awesome parts, but in the end, as a whole, a bit too bloodless--compared with Salt, which whatever else you want to say about it had people cheering in the theater when the female protagonist killed her worst enemy, everyone's just a bit too professional for their own good, except when they're not and it gets them what they deserve, and ironically the extreme competence of everyone involved winds up working against the movie's impact.

Wow. Really?

... the revelation about who split the Hulk and Banner into 2 separate beings is revealed. As if it wasn't obvious who would go to for something like this.

( The Doctor is in the house. )

The *necessary* evil of Sinestro continues, as the reluctant Green Lantern hunts down the rest of his Sinestro Corps.

( Revelations. )

Today's prompt is "taking a stand".

Hi all,

We are currently working around a problem with our static file serving -- i.e., JavaScript, CSS, and image files. I had to move these back to our main web frontend instead of using the fast static frontend.

The root cause is that our hosting provider, ServerBeach, reassigned the IP address we were using for static content. They assigned it to one fo the new machines they are building for us. Given the vagaries of networks, I can't unassign that IP easily on my end. I have to kill the machine and it's still in provisioning, so I don't have access to it yet.

In order to work around this problem, I've had to make two changes -- use the main Perlbal infrastructure and turn off an optimization we use -- this is going to cause things to load a little slower. I will be working this evening to resolve the problem in a more efficient way.

My apologies for the issue here. I don't know why they reassigned our IP address, but as soon as I figure out what happened, I will let you know.

Thanks for your patience.

I just received the email below. Is there some way Fanlore can try to prevent high-volume/mass emailings from the site (especially from newly created user accounts like this one)?( Read more... )

Hello, everyone! The Wiki Committee is still in the process of collecting itself for the 2012 term, but esskay has suggested some excellent challenges for February. They were all so good, I couldn't pick just one. We now present....

Fanlore Valentines!

1. Look up the Fanlore article on a fanwork you love to see if any reviews of the work are quoted on the page. If not, express your love by finding a review and adding a brief quote (with link) to the page. (If Fanlore doesn't have a page for this fanwork at all, feel free to start the page. Tell us why you love it!)

2. What challenges, fests, gift exchanges, etc., are running right now? Check to see if Fanlore has articles about them. If the article exists, add up-to-date information; if the article doesn't exist, create it!

If these don't tickle your fancy, check out esskay's list of Valentine challenges. And you are always welcome to take up a previous challenge at any time.

Here are some resources to get you started: ( Read more... )

The death of Cypher at the gun-toting hands of the loser-villain "the Ani-Mator" in New Mutants V1 #60 is covered here

And now in New Mutants V2

( The Team Supreme are back! (Spoilers for the next New Mutants arc) )

And speaking of cute guys (and ladies) from the 1980's in cool armour!

( News for Saint Seiya fans )