Here is a little taste of the "favorites of" everything in several categories across entertainment. Not everything on this list necessarily came out in 2011--but 2011 is the first time I heard/read/saw the entertainment.
Be forewarned I am SO far behind on my TV shows, lol, so don't expect to see current favorites listed or current seasons.
Each category has my #1 favorite and a runner-up:
LFL is looking to hire a new 'Senior Editor' to develop its book and comic book products going forward.
For this long-time fan of Star Wars--and its books and comic books through the NJO/Ep3 years--as well as afficianado of good literature and storytelling, what a bittersweet thing to learn. I do not have a college degree, nor will I ever seek one (just not part of my calling), so I am forever disualified from ever holding the post. Plus I have Grail Quest Books.
But if I ever did get the job here is what my fellow Star Wars readers in the fan community could expect...
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In issue No. 602 of Captain America, the hero and his ally the Falcon find themselves at a rally where protesters hold signs that read “Tea Bag the Libs Before They Tea Bag You!” and “Stop the Socialists!” Captain America remarks that the assembly appears to be an “anti-tax thing,” and the Falcon, who is black, says he probably would not fit in with “a bunch of angry white folks.”
via artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
Joe Quesada apologized (of course), calling it "a stupid mistake", and promised all reprints would remove the Tea Party-related slogans.
Regardless of your political ideological choice, it is never right to slander the opposition just because you do not agree with them. Either that or MARVEL is admitting that neither The Falcon (a character I actually like very much)--nor themselves--are up to speed on what the Tea Party movement is about (being that "anti-tax thing" Cap remarked about).
This is a great lesson for all writers to learn. It is absolutely your right to script a story as you see fit. But Freedom of Speech employed in a fashion that blatantly mis-characterizes a person or group in a way that is obvious will NOT lead to a large readership.
Due your diligence through research, make informed opinions about the people you do not agree with, and you will find respect truly is a two-way street. From there you will also increase the capital on your reputation, and reap the dividends down the road later as a person of honor and to be trusted.
As DC's Crisis trilogy comes to a conclusion, I find it somewhat amusing that DC's superhero continuity is, at the least, just as confuddled and complex as it was in the pre-Crisis days. Granted this could change in the final months. Even if it does, DC (and Marvel) will reach another point in the future where the continuity of their characters and major events become like one of those knots you find when it comes time to pull out the Christmas lights.
On a sidenote, these large-scale comic title crossover epics e.g. Civil War, Final Crisis, Secret Invasion are criticized for the number of titles one must purchase in order to get the "whole" story (and sometimes even the main story). This is particularly problematic in DC where Batman, Superman, Justice League, Justice Society, Teen Titans, Green Lantern, and Flash have all had numerous incarnations and spinoff titles; in Marvel... Spider-Man, Punisher, the X-Men, Iron Man, and Captain America have all had their share of continuity reboots and simultaneous publications convuluting their histories.
I am not opposed to multiple titles. What I don't get is why these two publishers believe that these titles all have to share the same continuity. Marvel is in much better shape than DC in that when they decided to reinvent many of the core titles, they did so within a contained environment via the "Ultimates" continuity. But why not extend this to the regular titles instead of starting a new one?
If I had any influence at these companies, I would proclaim all characters or groups with (or in) multiple titles to be be ended--the titles I mean. Each title would then restart as a new volume, and one title would be determined to be the flagship title in the "core canon", that canon being the one shared by all characters, taking place in the modern day, within that publisher's catalog. The rest of the titles would be assigned the following unique continuties, ALL seperate from the "core canon" except where it is listed as "flagship title"; if a title isn't listed, it would remain ended--and I do recognise that certain amount of cleaning up would still need to be done, but at least the titles would have clearly defined lines (and logos on the covers)...
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