Wow...

[telophase]

...I'm not quite sure what I expected when I got to work this morning and read the comments to my Sabretooth rant on the LJ crosspost, but I'm fairly sure I didn't expect the entire conversation to be derailed by one facetious mention of the Summers family tree.

ETA: Which is to say that if anyone has any comments on the rant other than the goddamn Summers family tree, they would be quite welcome.

And why are my <small> tags not working on DW? Ah. They do, just not in my post view.

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[inkstone]

After reading through the comments, the idea of Buffy Summers and Scott Summers possibly being related in some alternate universe might have just destroyed my brain.

[ukoku.livejournal.com]

What is up with people rickrollin' your LJ lately?

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

Would it be off-topic to start talking about how Marvel treats disability? I suspect so, but that was my first response.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Eh, go for it. :D

My one story about disability and comics is from Brian Stelfreeze, perennial Aggiecon guest and all-round good guy. He was working for DC and was assigned to draw the issue Barbara Gordon, newly paralyzed, comes out of the hospital. In order to do justice to that, he told me that he went out and rented a wheelchair and tried to get in and out of a car from it. I don't quite remember how he described it and the panels he drew - I think he said something like he felt trapped and restricted by the frame of the car, so he emphasized that in his drawings, making the car frame cage-like and dark. And he said that after the issue came out, he had fans in wheelchairs come up to him afterward and say "Yes. It's like that. You got it right." (ETA: Which, he says, is the sort of moment an artist lives for, when his art manages to speak directly to someone.)

I always meant to figure out which comic it was and look up that sequence, to see how he translated his experience in trying it out into comic panels. Just haven't gotten to it yet.