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Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-18 10:02:00

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char: darkseid, char: desaad, char: granny goodness, creator: jon bogdanove, creator: walt simonson, publisher: dc comics

"Goodness and Mercy"

This is from Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant #1. It's written by Walter Simonson and illustrated by Jon Bogdanove.

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	oddpuppets 2009-04-18 09:22 am UTC (link)
	Gorgeous art. Is anyone else getting a really Kirby-esque vibe? Statuesque women, larger than life creatures, an ominous Darkseid, and sheer kineticism. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fromtheaether 2009-04-18 09:53 am UTC (link)
	Simonson has always had a Kirby-influence, although not as strong as some. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	heat16 2009-04-18 11:42 am UTC (link)
	But the artist is Jon Bogdanove, who's kindof an art chameleon. He changes his style to suit the story, and it works like a charm. (Reply to this) (Parent)

icon_uk
2009-04-18 09:59 am UTC (link)

As noted, Simonson always has a certain Kirby vibe, and makes it work. Rarely better than here.

Karl Kesel is another, though he adapts the trappings of Kirby-ism to his own sensibilities. It's a different take, but a very valid one.

I keep meaning to post some of the Kesel Hawk and Dove issue where the new Female Fury Cadets show up for the first time. Kirby would have been very proud of that.

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	heat16 2009-04-18 11:44 am UTC (link)
	Young Goodness hot! ... Thats a name I would have never connected to hotness... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ex_menagerie993 2009-04-18 02:01 pm UTC (link)
	Motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-04-20 04:27 pm UTC (link)
	Young Goodness/Big Barda: impossibly hot. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	seriousfic 2009-04-18 12:07 pm UTC (link)
	...how does an immortal demi-god get old? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	midnightvoyager.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 02:52 pm UTC (link)
	Same way they can be born, I suppose. It seems like various immortal beings have a specific age where their aging stops. Depends on the immortal being. Since she specifically looks after children, hers may have stopped later. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-04-19 02:31 am UTC (link)

It's possible that it's not so much age that is the issue - it's more to do with the role they play. There are certain New Gods who seem eternally youthful - I'm thinking particularly of that assassin guy who dresses like he's in the Renaissance; can't quite remember his name - and others who seem eternally old or middle-aged. My theory is that they age normally until their role in life has become clear, then they rapidly turn into an appropriate approximation of that role. Therefore, Granny Goodness is old, yet powerfully built, as is appropriate to her role as insane parental figure; Desaad looks like Peter Lorre's sadistic cousin, that assassin guy I mentioned is eternally youthful, suave and limber, Verman Vundabarr looks like what you'd get if you put the love-child of Hitler and Napoleon into a wine-press, etc., etc.

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	hyperactivator 2009-04-18 03:08 pm UTC (link)
	She's an alien not a demi god. And I'm standing by that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlbarnett 2009-04-18 04:53 pm UTC (link)
	fine by me. there's nothing godlike about them (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-04-18 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	a) Who says she's immortal. b) Hercules, Gilgamesh, etc. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aegof.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	Probably has something to do with the "demi-god" part. (Reply to this) (Parent)

ex_menagerie993
2009-04-18 02:13 pm UTC (link)

Okay, I really like this, for a lot of reasons.
1) Lovecraft reference. Night Gaunts live on Apokalips? Hell yea. (It also makes a great excuse to throw really strange things into Call of Cthulhu games ;)
2) Granny Goodness? With characterization beyond "Muahahahaha! I'm EEEeeeevil!"? Fascinating.
3) Goodness was hot when she was young. This notion disturbs me.
4) How did a hot black woman turn into an old white woman? Jacksonisation?

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	kingrockwell 2009-04-18 03:29 pm UTC (link)
	She's not really black. If you look, the color is consistent throughout, and everybody's that color (including old Granny at the end). Apokolips is just...poorly lit? Motto on everything else, this is a really cool story. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	seriousfic 2009-04-18 07:19 pm UTC (link)
	They dyed her that color! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	whatistriestine 2009-04-18 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	I liked this, thank you! (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-04-18 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	It does beg the question... Why the hell would good little Apokaliptian parents actually name their child "Goodness". It would be like a parent on Earth naming their child "Sodomy" or "Paedophilia" And any attemtp to cite the Discworld's Bestiality Carter and the rest of his unfortunately or inappropriately named siblings doesn't count! :P (Reply to this) (Thread)

	drsevarius 2009-04-18 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Probably the same reason why she named her dog Mercy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-04-18 08:14 pm UTC (link)
	Of course, the dog is named Mercy as a sly writers reference to Psalm 23; "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me, all the days of my life", but that's beside the point. It's just Apokaliptian serfs never struck me as being that big on irony. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drsevarius 2009-04-18 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	no, the in-story reason ("You should have learned more respect for names...") (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bluefall 2009-04-18 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Well, in Apokolyptian terms, it's a very cruel thing to give your child a name like that, and cruelty is the watchword for life on Apokolips, right? (It's way too easy to get trapped in weird infinite moral loops with "evil as virtue" societies like this.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	magus_69 2009-04-19 02:17 am UTC (link)
	And any attemtp to cite the Discworld's Bestiality Carter and the rest of his unfortunately or inappropriately named siblings doesn't count! :P Oh now that's just not fair! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	creeper_lady 2009-04-19 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	I figure it's to get the same effect as 'a boy named Sue', a ridiculous name soon toughens a kid up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Very True. proteus_lives 2009-04-20 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	"Life ain't easy on a boy named Sue." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-04-18 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, Granny had a serious rack. (Reply to this)