Caius the Bigger

Some of my online friends seem to really need nice things now. So since I *finally* got these things scanned last week (it's been nearly a year. It takes courage to use the work scanner!) I'm finally getting around to putting up the sketches I got, free and otherwise, at Wizard World Philadelphia last year.

Since it's been nearly a year, I've forgotten some names. Next time I do this, I'm going to take better notes; this was my first time getting sketches from people.

First off, stuff from the Marvel booth. I discovered, on the third day of the convention, that if you were prepared to wait in line, you could get free head sketches from all the Marvel artists there. Of any character you wanted!

So you can imagine what *I* spent my Sunday doing.

( FALCON SKETCHES! )

And then there are the people who are not Falcon, drawn by artists not at the Marvel booth!

This is a totally cute Flash picture I bought, drawn by someone whose name I can't quite read and whose business card I have since lost. It stood out from most of the stuff in Artist's Alley by being brightly colored and non-grim:

( Flash! )

And a few things from the folks at Cave Drawing Ink, who distinguished themselves (and got us to buy some things) by being young and eager and drawing us pictures:

( Captain America and Hal Jordan )

I'm not generally much for memes and quizzes and things, but...

( Hal )

*scurries off now*

Reposted and backdated for cataloguing purposes!

Prompt: an average night (post-crime-fighting) with Hal and Barry when Barry *wasn't* late for a date with Iris.

( Barry sat back and listened )

Title: In an Empty City
Fandom: Green Lantern/Green Arrow
Rating: ....let's call it "mature teens".
Summary: Ollie comes to visit Hal. There is banter. And such.
Disclaimer: Characters and settings belong to DC, no matter how badly they're taking care of them.
Spoilers/continuity: Deals with events in Green Lantern: Rebirth and Green Lantern v4 1-2. Specific references to Green Lantern: Rebirth 6 and Green Lantern v4 2. A few references to older GL and GA continuity.
Acknowledgment: Thanks to lcsbanana, evadne_ and plainsong_x for many degrees of beta, encouragement, and advice.

( Caia finally writes Hal/Ollie )

So--I was intending to have my comica_obscura fic *done* by now. And it's more or less plotted out already, as plainsong_x can attest, being as I jumped her in the middle of the night round about Thursday nights ago and *told* it too her.

Unfortunately, telling Jori all about it does not make a fic finished, and I've been jumped by one bunny/obsession after another ever since.

First, there was classic Firestorm, set off by, off all things, the Superfriends, which reminded me that Firestorm originally? Involved a bodysharing pair of high school student/professor. And made it look much more...pervy than Ronnie and Prof. Stein ever did in the comics. Especially when you've spent way too much time talking to evadne_ about the Blue Beetles and various Hawk 'n' Dove AUs.

Any rate. I managed to more or less shake that one off by late Saturday night. More or less. At which point (after having given zeelee_penguin a--brief--explanation of Green Lantern continuity from, oh, the 1960s or 70s through Mosaic, and diverse other distractions) I crawled into bed around 2:30 AM and was immediately ambushed by a Hal/John (or perhaps Hal-John) plot bunny at full force. Which (in an attempt at productivity, however counterproductive) I spent another hour or so starting writing the beginning of.

And then yesterday, after spending most of the day traveling and coming out tired, achy, and generally HATING THE WORLD, I went to bed much earlier and promptly started contemplating, of all things, Al Rothstein [Nuklon, Adam-Smasher] and Todd Rice [Obsidian] swearing brotherhood and settling down as ex-heroes/ex-villains together. (Do any of you other than greenygal *care* about these two?! Or have any desire to see such a thing?) It was cute, and tragic, and occasionally hot if they actually got to the sex, and actually *didn't* result in me getting up and trying to write it, partly because it occurred to me I'd have to go reread a lot of JSA to try to fit in what happens there with the Al and Todd I know from Infinity, Inc. and JLA.

...and just now I'm reading 70s Freedom Fighters, if only to see Black Condor walk around as if what he (wasn't) wearing was perfectly normal (this is a cover from the 40s, but same general costume). And am therefore discovering a *lot* of interesting stuff that is long-since out of continuity, like the Freedom Fighters having migrated to New York after their JLA xover special. Oh dear.