Superblog: Anita Blake: Nercomancer #3

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

Chris has got a new sporking of the comic out. For such a "badass", Anita sure gets beat-up and kidnapped a lot as well as doing nothing when she could've. It's funny but frustrating to see a story that willingly drags it's feet so the creator can prove how witty her self-insert is and is so in love with the sight of her word balloons. For fun, here is a silly list of characters who'd be better protagonists than this version of Anita...

-Penelope Pitstop: Sure she can be pretty helpless at times and needs her friends to rescue her, but when the chips are down, she can be very clever in getting out of trouble. If she fought that zombie and ran out of bullets (like Anita did), she'd find a lighter a friend left behind at her house, grab a can of hairspray and use the two items as a make-shift blowtorch.

-Captain N version of Simon Belmont: Sure he's a primping, egotistical metro-sexual, but even he tries to do things on his own terms and has a neat backpack full of tricks. At least you'd get a decent battle from him.

-Bayonetta (as Chris mentioned): She's ultra cheesecake, but when people call her a badass they can back it up. This JC wouldn't have a prayer against her.

Comments

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

...her lips D:

[assplund.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who thinks Laurenn J. Framingham sounds like a bad psuedonym for Laurell K. Hamilton?

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

You're right, it does.

[rebootfromstart.livejournal.com]

A quick Google search brings up no results for Laurenn J Franingham except for mentions of the Anita Blake comics, and a Lauren Framingham who is a violinist. Suspicious circumstances are suspicious.

[rebootfromstart.livejournal.com]

...let's pretend I can spell! No results for Laurenn J Framingham, because I did actually use the right spelling. >_>

[shivi.livejournal.com]

It is, but Chris made it up. Her real name is on the comics.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

It is!

Hamilton is a town in Massachusetts, and so is Framingham.

[leggomylegolas.livejournal.com]

In that picture where she gets kicked in the head...well, it looks like just her head sort of flying around detached from her body. Where the hell is her neck?

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

Actually I think La Costa Nostra (or whatever it's called) has even shittier righting scenes.

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

Here's an example: http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd10/Yaoi_Huntress_Earth/page197.jpg Then again the whole webcomic is an insult to the Sicilian Mafia alone just by the blatant refusal to do any research let alone try to make them out like Twilight did to vampires (http://badwebcomics.wikidot.com/la-cosa-nostra).

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

I still crack up at the "Jujitsu?" "Not many people recognize it" by-play. Oh, Anita, you're so worldly.

[magdalen77.livejournal.com]

Yes. The queen of "But I didn't knoooowwwwwww" is so worldly and knowledgable.

[leggomylegolas.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it really seems like every single thing that every other character says to Anita is basically just sucking her off.

I mean, how many times have people said things like "you would, you really would wouldn't you?!" and "not many people know that" and the like. It's a lot.

But then, it's a lot easier to just have other characters TELL the readers how awesome your self-insert is, rather than showing them though actions or plot or whatever.

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

I've seen self-insert Mary Sue fanfics where the cannon character suck-up less.