We Read To Know We're Not Alone

So, two really cute and awesome comic parody ideas that I would totally buy the heck out of if they were actually published (more than the actual DC comics, which I am buying a grand total of zero issues):

http://relaunched-blog.blogspot.com/2011/09/wonder-girl-1-by-lee-leslie.html

I love me some dark and painful Wondygal - Greg Rucka's run on the character in the mid-2000s moves me more than almost any comic series has - but the recent runs on the character seem to emphasize that quality to the exclusion of all else (Gail Simone, Straczynski/Hester, and Azzerello - particularly the last).  An all-ages Wondygal with love, compassion, and amazing spunk would be really cool - sort of like the Supergirl in elementary school that was done a few years ago.

http://relaunched-blog.blogspot.com/2011/08/supergirlbatgirl-1-by-mike-maihack.html

I adored the Batgirl/Supergirl team-up in the (vastly superior to the current) Batgirl series a year or so ago.  Though this one stars the "wrong" Batgirl (I love Steph Brown, and think she should have stuck around), the art and concept looks just perfect.

In other news, I adore Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.  Probably my first fandom (I was reading the original stories by the time I was eight or ten), the adaptations of the series first interested me in film and adaptation.  So I find I can't resist seeing even horrible adaptations (like the recent sequel to the sort-of-decent Robert Downey Jr. "interpretation").  I've greatly enjoyed (though with caveats) the BBC modernization show Sherlock, and so it is with a heavy heart that I notice that the US, in the grand tradition of making incredibly lazy and fail-filled shows based on UK exports, have commissioned "Elementary," a show which I predict will not only not try to adapt the original stories, but make Watson an idiot but still try to fill the kind of odd friendship relationship which makes Sherlock still watchable despite serious missteps.

And yet, I will still watch it.  And probably the third Sherlock Holmes film.  And keep reading the dreadful Sherlock Holmes comics by Dynamite Entertainment (which seem to think Sherlock's either really stupid, or some young version of the RDJ "Holmes").

At least I can always go back to my Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke...