Clark, if there's one lesson I've learned from you ...

Since I've started ranting weekly about specific comic book issues this monthly wrap-up has become more commentary than outright reviews about the issues. Less spoilery.

( September's Best - 5 DC, the Rest 0 - DC Fanaticism Going Strong )

Kord Tower? Seriously? I give up, I'm dropping Birds of Prey.  This book should at least have great art and it doesn't even have that.

Is there a worse mentor/guardian-like figure than Wolverine? I never understand why the writers mess with X-23 so much.  She could be a fun character to write, but instead they always go for the tortured, born to kill, isolated from/ostracized by everyone route. Sigh.

Can we just forget about Magog? He wasn't interesting even when Geoff Johns wrote JSA. And the art in the annual was subpar at best, made it hard to even try to read through the entire issue.

ETA: Just realized I was pretty much all negative here. I guess it's just one of those weeks. Tiny Titans was my favorite issue this week.

My macbook desktop wallpaper for June comes from an art piece I found on Deviant Art. Drawn by MarcioTakara, it's a group picture of the X-men. I am a fan of his drawing style and noticed his art because of his pieces on Justice League & Avengers.

There seems to be a trend developing in my writing in that every other month (FEB,APR,JUNE) have equated with no amount of writing produced. While early June was pretty free for writing that I didn't get done, the last three weeks have been hectic and it's been odd times of the day here in July that I'll find myself opening up docs and tweaking things. I'm been outlining chapters for several stories to the point where I'm almost ready to write, so I'm hoping July will be my most productive ficwise in awhile. And I hope I'm successful in that because in August I am setting myself an ambitious goal as I focus solely on a original story I've been piecing together for about five years now. WRITING TOTAL: 0 words

And on the note of writing, a reminder to anyone that has been thinking about participating in the bi-annual Porn Battle that I've written for two of the last three events: PROMPT SUBMISSION STARTS MONDAY!! We have through Thursday to get submissions in and then posting occurs from the 18th-25th. I have an unfinished smutty Chlark one-shot that I had originally started for the dcu_freeforall Spring Porn Fest that I may convert for the Porn Battle. One-shots tend to be the only place I can contain my shippyness to only one ship for a story so I do want to submit one or two.

There are a lot of July birthdays happening around me with not only my friends here on livejournal but also offline. Unfortunately for them I only send out birthday wishes to my friends here on LJ, so a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUG TO: scarlett71177 (11th TODAY!) & dj_tenku (14th).

Lastly, in what seems to be a trend with these new month posts, I just made a new icon post over at capes_and_cowls. It features plenty of icons from the Cliff Chiang drawn issue of Brave & the Bold (and everyone knows that I just adore his art!).