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Patty's favorite movie blog is raising money for the American Cancer Society and she'd like you to participate.

Due to scheduling complexities that began with the cruise and have lasted for six months, Patty and I are having Christmas 2009 today.

The second part of the comic GDL wrote for Torchwood Magazine is out and making the rounds. It's called "Shrouded" and is ridiculously interesting on more than few levels: including fan-creator dialogue, meta commentary, the death stuff I'm doing (I'll be talking about it in my presentation at Dragon*Con on mourning responses to illustrated narratives), what is canon in a narrative universe where infinite AU's are cannon, etc.

As a comic itself, I don't care that much, but I fully admit to not really having the receptor sites for this sort of thing. As dialogue though, it's AMAZING. I'm very curious to see how it's going to be received. I suspect messily. Anyway, props to all involved.

News-sweep later; swamped now.

Comments

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it yet (and may never, funeral scenes are very much not my thing and that's one of the first set of panels I saw) but I gather that a lot of the initial response is ... what was going on? And from a range of readers, not just folks who seem to not get that the whoinverse is timey-wimey.

Christmas 2009

[supergee.livejournal.com]

nellorat's sisters and the three of us beat you by a couple of weeks.

Merry Christmas!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

N.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Happy Christmas!

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

An op-ed I think you'll appreciate, if you haven't seen it:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/lady-power/

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

Linked via friends-of-friends, a public arts/spaces project that I suspect you might find intriguing: http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2010/keytothecity/

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes on the what is canon issue. It's something that I want to explore as well. For me, as a literary theorist, it's perhaps the most significant question of narratives that evoke fan fiction. What is it? How do people work with it? Why does it remain important to fan fiction writers, even those who write AU. I think it's the central question of fandom: Why does canon matter as a concept?

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested to hear the details of your reading of that comic. I think it's interesting that the guy who played the character relates to him much the way many fans do - as the locus of a kind of counterplot.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas!

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I've just finished reading the comic.

Having heard Gareth speak at cons, I can see his fingerprints all over this. The inclusion of John, Ianto having the potential to make a wide range of choices from selfless to terrible, etc.

I kind of loved his Owen more than I should, and that "what would I do without you?" moment was not cruelty free. On the other hand, we do see a funeral, and more of what John was up to.

(And whoa! Ianto in a mandarin collar!)