Dear Goddess...can they pimp this thing anymore?

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=101383

Okay, nothing too extreme or note worthy, I would have skipped if cept for this one tiny item

“The new edition will feature an exclusive sketch cover drawn by series artist Brett Booth featuring Anita Blake in the midst of a voodoo ritual,”

Ummmm pardon me for asking but what is a Catholic of Hispanic origins doing practicing Voodoo? Or is this something missed while skimming past the bad smut?

Comments

[sharkbytes.livejournal.com]

If my memory serves, i believe as far back as TLC Anita was at the very least studying Vaudun and voodoo. So it isn't something new, really. I'm pretty sure that's part of the problem the church had with necromancers. Aside from the dealings with the undead. But all the same, i can't wait to see the utter craptasticness of Brett Booth's rendition. Especially given his past efforts, with Raphael's canned-ham thighs, and not being able to get hair color correct.

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Scary part is, I've seen Booth's Non-Anita work, as plain pencils no inks or colors and it's pretty good. O_O...makes me wonder if he needs to unplug part of his brain to plod through all the 'notes' from LKH on how to draw the comic.

[lannamichaels]

She did some voodoo in the early books. Her grandmother, iirc, taught her a little to help control it, and (in the first book?) she was able to identify a gris-gris.

[x-bluerose-x.livejournal.com]

She kept misspelling "loa" in the book too when it was mentioned. Somehow it made it past the editor.

[ryuutchi.livejournal.com]

How was she spelling it?

[x-bluerose-x.livejournal.com]

Lao.

[ryuutchi.livejournal.com]

>.< Sheesh.

[x-bluerose-x.livejournal.com]

Yup. In several places. She managed to get it right maybe only once or twice. I kept cringing as I read it.

[sadlikeknives.livejournal.com]

Well hell, 'diety' made it past the editor, so I don't know why you're surprised a slightly less common (but still by no means unusual) word would, too.

In fact, I begin to suspect there is no editor. Or spellchecker.

[ninjacooter.livejournal.com]

I wonder if she's going to try to pass Anita off as an actual Mambo asogwe.

I guess I should be happy that she isn't taking liberties with Santeria yet - but I'm sure if given time, she'll rape that as well.

[ninjacooter.livejournal.com]

Sweet. :)

[tsula.livejournal.com]

in TLC there's some infodumpage that the Flores' (Anita's maternal side) were vaudun, and her abuela ordered dadd-ums to keep her in his safe cracker faiths (read that: Catholicism) that have nothing to do with supra-scaries necromagickz, or she'd turn into an evil [hoodoo] queen, for seriouslies. which somehow later got retconned into Grandma Blake's Convent for Wayward Half-Mex Angst-Ridden Animators-in-the-Making.

Manny was the one to teach her how to raise the dead the good ole [hoodoo] way. hence being her mentor, and the horrible horrible betrayal that he and Dominga were fuck-buddies.

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Foretelling of Anita becoming an evil dark queen...and current hints that she will defeat the MOAD? Good god is that the trace of a plot I see?

[tsula.livejournal.com]

naw, that post-it probably got lost in the Great Move, so we'll only see more wank on Grandma Blake and how she was a secret liason between the Nazis and the Catholic Church...

[daphne-gateau.livejournal.com]

Could also be that whoever wrote the article is calling the ritual of raising a zombie generically as 'voodoo'.

It's odd that as a 'good catholic girl' Anita has always been written as not so worried about the spiritual questions involved with her original powers - ie, raising the dead, having a connection or empathy with zombies and vampires, or whatever the heck necromancy is supposed to be. Yet, she is hugely worried about comparatively meaningless moral questions that most people in America have come to terms with already. Like gay sex, premarital sex and casual sex. With everything Anita has experienced why in the heck is she still struggling with the idea of gay men or women.

I can understand that necromancy is normal to the character of Anita where sex for whatever reason isn't, that I have no problems with. But if Anita is going to have a spiritual concern element to her character, which does seem to pop up with her time and again throughout the series, I think it makes more sense for Anita to question why she's been given these 'gifts' that are taking over her humanity. What does her Protestant interpretation of God want her to do? Not 'OMG is it okay to have stranger buttsecks at a cocktail party?'. Or 'what am I gonna do with all these menz?'. Or my favorite: 'Do Asher and Jean-Claude want to have sex with EACH OTHER, without me around? How shocking!' Shocking every time she discovers it.

Sorry! This rambled far away from your original idea. No more coffee for me today.

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

I find that picture on the thing a little puzzling, what is happening to her waist (it's rising like the sun) and her face?

Try again.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Because 1) Anita did study voodoo rituals at one point, that's why, and 2) the writer of the article may have confused anything to do with raising zombies as being by default a voodoo ritual, rather than the typical zombie raising that necromancers in Anita's universe tend to do.

Where are you getting that Anita isn't willing to practice rituals from other traditions? She's never, ever said that she shuns all over traditions, and she's hardly a strictly practicing Catholic.

Re: Try again.

[saucyirishlass.livejournal.com]

Didn't she convert to Episcopalian even, because it's apparently the closest you can get to being Catholic without actually being Catholic, because the Church decreed that her powers were evil?

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Anita uses Voodoo (sorry, Vaudun) to raise the zombies. There was some mentinon that she also studied it with Gramma Flores to help control her necromancy and stop her from going to the Dark Side, and wind up like Dominga Salvador.

*squints at pic* IIRC, the whole raising zombies thing also requires her jar of goo and said goo should be liberally smeared on her face and with a hand-print over her heart. Course, through the series, LKH has totally foregone the need for said goo to help ground Anita or...whatever it was that it did, and just have her directly raising the dead without any real psychic/metaphysical failsafes. As, what could possibly go wrong with raisin' a zombie? EH?

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

Is the Sphinx gonna have to throw down on this woman for faeries and voodoo now?

[ladyvy.livejournal.com]

It was mentioned already that she was dabbling a bit into voodoo. Like the ritural she does for raising the dead in the books is pretty authentic to Haitian rituals. Alot of Catholics who are of Caribbean/Hispanic descent practice voodoo and still feel like they are model Christians and that it doesn't conflict with their faith at all (I know I have some Haitian relatives that do so). Although most people tend to believe that Hispanics practice Santeria more readily. And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't AB Episcopalian (s/p?) or something or the other? I totally think I would've remembered if she were Catholic if so.