Serve the Servants

As an interlude here, sometimes I miss the sorts of posts I used to make at the Batcave, where I would just ramble on about comic books or movies or whatever, instead of stirring up all my own personal shit to put it on display. Don't get me wrong, I think this blog has been tremendous during its run, and especially the past couple weeks, but sometimes I just feel like screwing around. And I'm going to do that in this here post.

As a writer with aspirations both as a novelist and a comic book writer I'll sometimes come across ideas that are so inspired that I become filled with envy that I didn't come up with them myself. One good example is putting Hawkgirl onto the team in the Justice League cartoon, which I would never have thought of doing, and then turning her into such a badass that she became far and away my favorite character on the show.

Another, and a more recent one, is taking sweet and innocent Mary Marvel and switching her power source so that it comes from the dark side, resulting in a more grim and gritty version of the character. And I *love* the costume redesign, too. If I can parlay some success from my first book into getting a comic book gig, Mary Marvel is definitely a character I would love to use in a book ... assuming they don't revert her back to original form by the end of this story.