Why the site is now at a new
location
November 30, 2007
By Avi Green
Some of you visiting this site may notice that this site has now
moved to a new server, while for others, let me note that it used to
be on a smaller server. Well, there’s reasons for that, such as that
the previous one was showing signs of wear and tear, and I decided
thus that the time had come to move it. Plus, since this new one
allows for more than one site to be hosted within the same account,
and I already had hosted here another fansite for the women of the Avengers over
at Marvel Comics, so I thought it could make a great place –
for both of them together!
That aside, let me also note that, as of today, I’ve become pretty
busy, even attending bloggers conferences, so it ain’t easy to
update this site as I wish I could. (Although I decided I would have
to do away with a statistics counter I'd tried to install here and
on the Marvel fansite too, since it just wasn't working out well.
I'll try to seek another one later that works better.)
Of course, there’s also the problem of that, it’s not like DC Comics
has done anything to really please/satisfy me lately. The damage
done in the wake of the Identity/Infinite Crisis debacle is still
around to my knowledge, and only when it’s done away with will it be
possible, IMHO, to make things truly appealing to me again.
For now, I suppose one thing that’s certainly a good step in the
right direction would be the hiring of Chuck Dixon to write the new
volume of Batman and the Outsiders, which brings the Masked
Manhunter back to the role he once had as the team’s leader. I know
that Katana and Metamorpho are both returning to their membership,
and I certainly hope that Cassandra Cain, who’d been the new Batgirl
introduced in about 1998, is going to be redeemed following her
catastrophous, editorially-mandated change into a villainess, as was
the case with Jean Loring being turned into a new Eclipso, which is
truly obscene and sick. That too is something that still requires
reversal, as does even the humiliation of her husband, Ray Palmer,
the Atom, who’s still in editorially-edicted limbo, as of this
writing.
Green Arrow may also become a member of the new roster of Outsiders,
while his former sidekick, Roy Harper, first Speedy and then
Arsenal, as well as the other former Titans, may be getting their
own solo book as Titans again. (By the way, if Roy is still going by
the name of Red Arrow, let me just say that I detest that codename,
as it sounds ludicrous, which is pretty much what I’ve come to
expect from the overrated novelist Brad Meltzer, whose run on the
new volume of Justice League of America, as some readers have said,
is very dull. Good if he’s off the book at last then, and Dwayne
McDuffie is on instead.) But what’ll really please me is if they
have some really challenging adventures with human-interest story
elements not unlike what you would see in the 1980s, and maybe even
a little more respect for conservatism!
So I’ll be waiting to see what comes of this new volume. It’s good
that Judd Winick is off of that, though it’s a shame if he’s going
to be the writer of the new volume of New Titans, if I’ve learned
the news correctly. Maybe Tony Bedard, who wrote the finale for the
previous volume of Outsiders, would be a better choice, and that’s
what I’d really like to see.
Copyright 2007 Avi Green. All rights reserved.
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