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Below are the 16 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Daily Scans" journal:

October 26th, 2009
08:04 pm [neuhallidae] [Link]	One panel of classic Deodato. Courtesy of The Crossing storyline over in Avengers, which means you know it's gonna be good! ::snrrk:: ( Read more... ) Tags: char: crystal/crystalia amaquelin, char: quicksilver/pietro maximoff, char: wasp/janet van dyne, creator: mike deodato, group: avengers, publisher: marvel comics, title: avengers (24 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 22nd, 2009
01:36 pm [queenursula] [Link]	Dark Avengers 10: Ms. Marvel and Bullseye ( Read more... ) Tags: char: ares/marvel, char: bullseye/hawkeye, char: moonstone/ms. marvel/karla sofen, char: scorpion/venom/mac gargan, char: sentry/bob reynolds, creator: brian michael bendis, creator: mike deodato, publisher: marvel comics, title: dark avengers (63 comments \| Leave a comment)
01:12 pm [xdoop] [Link]	Dark Avengers #10 ( Images behind the cut. ) Tags: char: green goblin/norman osborn, char: moonstone/ms. marvel/karla sofen, creator: brian michael bendis, creator: mike deodato, publisher: marvel comics, title: dark avengers (53 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 1st, 2009
12:48 pm [queenursula] [Link]	The status of Sins Past, Post-OMD ( The letters page for ASM #607, behind the cut. ) Tags: char: green goblin/norman osborn, char: spider-man/peter parker, creator: joe kelly, creator: mike deodato, creator: mike mckone, publisher: marvel comics, title: amazing spider-man (29 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 19th, 2009
05:53 pm [xdoop] [Link]	Dark Avengers #9 ( Images behind the cut. ) Tags: char: ares/marvel, char: lindy reynolds, char: nick fury, char: phobos/alexander aaron, char: sentry/bob reynolds, creator: brian michael bendis, creator: mike deodato, publisher: marvel comics, title: dark avengers (56 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 10th, 2009
10:06 am [colonel_green] [Link]	In which the Dark Avengers actually get to do something. Four scans from Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus, the finale to the "Utopia" crossover. ( Read more... ) Tags: char: professor x/charles xavier, char: sentry/bob reynolds, char: white queen/emma frost, creator: matt fraction, creator: mike deodato, creator: terry dodson, event: utopia, publisher: marvel comics (32 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 21st, 2009
12:08 pm [thanekos] [Link]	The Superhuman Defense: A Moment In Astro City Legal History or: Another take on " Perhaps it was my Evil Clone who did that bad thing there? " ( This one's brought to us by a more desperate defense attorney, and in the Astro City courts. ) Current Music: B'z - Love Phantom Tags: char: spider-man/peter parker, creator: brent anderson, creator: j. michael straczynski, creator: kurt busiek, creator: mike deodato, publisher: marvel comics, publisher: wildstorm, title: amazing spider-man, title: astro city (7 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 18th, 2009
03:04 pm [cyberghostface] [Link]	Dark Avengers #11 cover ( Spins a web, any size... ) Tags: creator: brian michael bendis, creator: mike deodato, genre: solicitations, title: dark avengers (98 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 24th, 2009
11:31 am [xdoop] [Link]	Mind rape? While they didn't create the term, TV Tropes defines "Mind Rape" as when "a character is attacked by a villain in the most painful non-physical way possible. Their mind and soul are assaulted with painful, horrifying visions and memories, and broken until they're powerless and numb, but not dead, although afterwards they may wish they were. Nothing sexual occurs, but everything else is there to resemble a rape - violation, helplessness, and the poisoning of what could otherwise be a source of joy." However I've seen a lot of people throw the term around whenever a character gets their mind read without their permission, as if it's just as bad (or almost as bad) as the act of sexual assault itself. ( More behind the cut. ) Tags: char: crossbones/brock rumlow, char: iron man/tony stark, char: maria hill, char: professor x/charles xavier, char: spider-man/peter parker, char: vision/jonas, creator: brian michael bendis, creator: ed brubaker, creator: mike deodato, creator: steve epting, publisher: marvel comics, title: captain america, title: new avengers (113 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 5th, 2009
03:52 pm [xdoop] [Link]	When did Mac Gargan become an evil sociopath? ( Images behind the cut. ) Tags: char: scorpion/venom/mac gargan, creator: brian reed, creator: chris bachalo, creator: joe kelly, creator: mike deodato, creator: paulo sequeira, creator: warren ellis, group: thunderbolts, publisher: marvel comics, title: amazing spider-man, title: thunderbolts (34 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 21st, 2009
07:55 pm [espanolbot] [Link]	Dark Avengers 6 Preview Spoilers ( Norman Osborn: Rapidly becoming as far out of his depth as a camel at the bottom of the Mariana Trench ) Tags: char: dr. doom/victor von doom, char: green goblin/norman osborn, char: sub-mariner/namor mckenzie, creator: brian michael bendis, creator: mike deodato, genre: previews, publisher: marvel comics, title: dark avengers (43 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 15th, 2009
04:09 pm [colonel_green] [Link]	Marvel Solicits for September Solicits for several Marvel books: Exiles, Invincible Iron Man and X-Force. Edit: Now with added Secret Warriors/Dark Avengers. ( Read more... ) Tags: char: angel/archangel/warren worthington, char: iron man/tony stark, char: nick fury, char: x-23/laura kinney, creator: brian michael bendis, creator: chris yost, creator: craig kyle, creator: jeff parker, creator: matt fraction, creator: mike choi, creator: mike deodato, creator: salva espin, creator: salvador larroca, creator: sonia oback, title: dark avengers, title: exiles, title: invincible iron man, title: x-force (26 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 14th, 2009
03:45 pm [xdoop] [Link]	Mary Jane's Tabloid Troubles ( Story behind the cut. ) Tags: char: edwin jarvis, char: iron man/tony stark, char: mary jane watson, char: may parker, char: spider-man/peter parker, char: wolverine/logan/james howlett, creator: j. michael straczynski, creator: mike deodato, publisher: marvel comics (42 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 8th, 2009
08:41 pm [cyberghostface] [Link]	Another Perfect Moment: The Green Goblin ( I'm glad I never washed this particular costume. Smells like death, blondes and victory. ) Tags: char: green goblin/norman osborn, creator: mike deodato, creator: warren ellis, series: one perfect moment week, title: thunderbolts (25 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 17th, 2009
04:59 pm [bluefall] [Link]	The Many Faces of Barbara Minerva, part 2 (William Messner-Loebs) Ah, Messner-Loebs. I have some serious problems with his run, which are only exacerbated by the repellent atrocity that is the later Deodato pencilling. But one thing I've got to credit him with, he did some good work with Diana's rogues. The thing about Diana is that she's too practical and effective for the Joker Problem. She kills monsters and she saves victims, and she's really good at both. Run into her two or three times, and she either cuts your puppet strings, converts you, or decides you're too dangerous to live and sends you the way of Drakul and the khunds. You can't really sustain "can't be reformed" around Diana. So there's only three real ways to do a lasting Wondy rogue. One, you make the villain flat-out more powerful than her. Circe's a good example. She's a freaking god, and not the chump kind like Phobos and Deimos either (moly weakness notwithstanding). No matter how much of a danger she is, Diana's not killing her unless Circe lets her. But that's incredibly hard to write - how do you defeat a more powerful foe without diminishing that foe or looking stupid or pulling a deus ex? Perez and Jimenez were awesome at it, but not everyone can be. The second way is to make rogues who aren't actually malicious or even necessarily dangerous. A genial, swashbuckling gentleman thief, for example, who would never dream of actually hurting anyone. Then you have the problem of explaining why someone on Diana's field of play should care - Angle Man seems like a shot at this, but it's hard to justify Diana giving a crap about some petty theft when she's routinely embroiled in actual wars and armageddon events. At her power level, it's actually harder to write a believable amiable rogue story than a well-done conflict with a Circe or Darkseid. (A Mxy-like magical prankster who doesn't ever quite understand the consequences of his "harmless" jokes could actually work quite well, though, adding humor and giving her a regular opportunity to showcase her wisdom and diplomacy; really, why doesn't she have one of those already?) The third way, somewhat tricky to establish but relatively easy to maintain, is to complicate the fuck out of Diana's relationships with them. Make them her friends, make her owe them or need them or feel responsible for them, make sure that "can't be reformed" is close enough to true that the enmity never ends, but is also a conclusion that Diana's constitutionally incapable of coming to. This was WML's go-to method, and he was actually pretty good at it (...at least, on the conceptual level). ( As usual, I apologize in advance for the 90s Imagesque art. ) Next up: Deals with demons and yet another indistinguishable Generic White Cop with a Crush on Wondy, as we move onto Cheetah as perceived by ye olde John Byrne. Tags: char: cheetah/barbara minerva, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: mike deodato, creator: william messner-loebs, series: many faces of barbara minerva, series: world of wondy (76 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 1st, 2009
12:46 pm [swordslady] [Link]	dusts off her old insanejournal Yesterday morning when I first noticed s_d was gone, I thought, "Well, ain't that a kick to the head." Then I read about all the dramaz that lead up to and immediately followed it. I have some different thoughts now, but those have already been expressed better in other places by people who are not me, so I won't go into that. I will however post this single beautiful beautiful page from Thunderbolts #115 ( My favorite kick to the head ever ) Tags: char: bullseye/hawkeye, creator: mike deodato, creator: warren ellis, publisher: marvel comics, title: thunderbolts (10 comments \| Leave a comment)