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From Justice League #17, the end of the “Throne of…

oh man ive never really read any comics before but this looks really good! and the new movie has me v excited for these characters!

I had watched the animated movie from a few years ago that was based off of this arc – it’s pretty good, animated fight scenes are nicely done, everything except the annoying bit that is is the nu52 so there’s a few scenes of Superman/Wonder Woman, which aside from taking up valuable screen-time for what isn’t a long film, is a pairing that I loathe for many reasons. But the animated version removed Vulko and thus made Orm a more generic actual villain. I knew that the original comic had Orm as an anti-villain and that he didn’t kill his queen mother and wasn’t working with Black Manta but was just duped by Manta and Vulko. I wasn’t expecting “Oh gods, he looks like a baby without his helmet, this is Loki-fangirl feelings and you are better than this, stop.” I knew the Trench was the first Aquaman arc in the nu52 reboot, and that villain horde will also be showing up in the live action film. Plus interviews with Patrick Wilson who plays Orm are hinting that it might not just be straight antagonism between the brothers, that their hate will come from a place of love, so I’m expecting the live action movie to fall somewhere between the animated and comic version.

I’ve been reading the Rebirth Aquaman comics (and the recent Mera mini-series), but the movie trailer prompted me to go back and read the first couple issues of nu52 Aquaman of which Rebirth is a continuation.

The funniest thing for me, to be honest, is that while I never read any of the pre-Flashpoint Aquaman comics, at least according to the internet, for the period of the Post-Crisis to Flashpoint: Aquaman was the full Atlantean (and blonde) and Orm was the half-human half Atlantean younger brother – and his mother was First Nation. Now post-Flashpoint, Arthur is the half-human, Orm the full Atlantean, and now the live-action has Orm finally as the blonde and Arthur is the brunette played by an actor with Native American and Hawaiian ancestry (and Thomas Curry is being played by Temura Morrison)

5,6,18 :)

5: Do you think stories can change lives? Is there a story that has changed yours?

Yes, not to be facetious, but that’s the point of stories. Human behavior and all that. Now personally, I can’t say any single life-changing one in particular, no pithy anecdote, but a cripplingly shy introverted girl constantly moving around, difficult to make friends, with family that to call them stressful would be an understatement and some undiagnosed mental something or other of my own – the escape and distraction that well-loved stories have saved my life and my sanity time and again. Example- waiting to hear the whereabouts of my suicidal sister (she had checked herself into a clinic without telling anyone, this story has a happy ending) in the middle of the night, so I turned to my Kindle to re-read one of the Ring of Fire books to take my mind off my powerlessness. 

6: What’s your biggest pet peeve when it comes to writing?

When I’m reading fics, spelling and grammar typos- especially the homophones- if they get too numerous to the point that I can’t ignore them, then that’s a pet peeve. And not indenting a new paragraph for a new speaker of dialogue. That’s a definite pet peeve, to have two direct quotations spoken dialogue from two characters and having them in the same paragraph. Bad characterization or plot is more fundamentally structural than the word ‘peeve’ suggests.

Referring to a character solely by hair color and a suffux like -ette. The blonde. brunette, pinkette, greenette. I hate that. If they include a noun and thus the hair color is just an adjective, it doesn’t bug me, but any time someone is addressed in noun form via hair color, I hate it.

18: Are you a ‘neatly designed outline’ writer or a ‘fuck it i’ll figure it out as i go’ writer?

…a little of both but more the second? For some of my original stories, especially back in high school and college, the outlines would be plotted to each individual interlude. I often write scenes out of order, or plan ahead some key points and thus have to improvise how the plot and characters get from point a to point c or point f. Writing shorter one-shots means I’m often writing as I go.