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--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on May 03, 2013, 02:04:34 PM ---That comparison mildly irritates me because it kind of misses out on some of the better stuff that's been done with Lois Lane as a character this past forty years, which is admittedly not a majority of the Superman comics in that span, but still; there's been a lot more to her than damsel in distress.
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Fair enough, Ill admit Im taking it mostly from that old Lois and Clark tv show. But there a WOJ somewhere where he said he made her a vamp mostly to avoid her becoming a lois lane in the sense of an overconfident reporter that keeps getting herself into hot water and requiring the Hero to bail her out.
Wordmaker:
Man, that old Lois and Clark show was so much better before Lois found out Clark was Superman. After that she really became a wuss.
Funnily enough, I think take Susan out of the series so early made it harder for me to really like her character. Of course, I'm a Harry/Murphy shipper, so from the get-go I was set against Susan :P
AesopsInvestigations:
--- Quote from: Shecky on May 03, 2013, 01:43:28 AM ---Have you read Mira Grant's "Newsflesh" series? For those not in the know, "Mira" is actually UF author Seanan McGuire, whose Toby Daye series is a peer of TDF, and the lady knows snark, epidemiology, the whole damn horror genre and how to spin a cliché back into something interesting. "Newsflesh" is easily one of my favorite series of the past decade.
I'm OCD enough that going the other direction, saying that one mythos obtains while others don't, bugs me; I can't see why just one could be true and no others. Plus, it takes a big pair (of cerebral lobes, duh) to take on all the world's mythology and at least make a nice dent in incorporating them. At the very least, it makes a wide-open, potentially HUGELY rich resource for the author when he doesn't just limit himself to one take on one mythos.
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As a TV show I think Supernatural is doing it right as to lumping most mythos into one universe. They've even toyed around with Fae as well.
mithrandirthewhite:
For me, i'm not always a fan of the graphic sex scenes that seem to show up in a lot of UF, at least the series that I have come across. It's reached the point that I find myself suddenly at the next chapter. I do not mind fade to black style or something similar, but the graphic descriptions are a bit much at times.
Wordmaker:
Levels of sexual content were a concern of mine when I was writing Locked Within. I didn't want to get too graphic because, really, that's not what my story was about. I wanted the scenes to serve specific roles in portraying character development and revelation, so I kept them very vague.
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