Favorite Things
May. 18th, 2020 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitStar Power is ending, which is sad and disappointing. I really love Star Power, and always have, ever since the very first ConBust where I discovered it by wandering up to a table in the dealers' room. They didn't have a full book yet, just a few comic issues, and I didn't buy anything but spent a while talking with the writer. Since ConBust is a little college con and no one was around his table, I figured he was probably just starting out, but the comic was good and he seemed nice. And then I went and looked him up and discovered Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, and had this moment of "...oh, wow, he's a *somebody*, isn't he." You just don't expect people who are that well-known to be in a mostly-empty dealers' room at a tiny con having a protracted conversation with you about the portrayal of women in superhero stories.
But I have kept reading it steadily since that first encounter, and it's strange now to hear the announcement of the ending, and remember just how long ago it was (years and years!) since it first began. I never did make my Star Power outfit, though I do still have the jumpsuit we ordered from the internet to be the base. I should finish that.benign_cremator was going to make me a glowing broadsword and rig the outfit so I'd actually light up. I'm sad it's ending; while I know they'll give it a good wrap-up, there are so many stories left to be told with these characters. (I know everyone's burned out on superheroes, but this has always been something different, and special. Even as I have *completely* burned out on Marvel I have never stopped reading Star Power.)
Also it's the year of NO CONS, which means getting my hands on the rest of the books will require more effort than usual; normally I wander up the table at ConBust and buy the latest one and have it signed. One year in full faerie queen regalia I even swept a deep curtsy and told him that his work was known in the Seelie court and my queen had bid me bring back a signed book for her, to which he played along beautifully.
But I have kept reading it steadily since that first encounter, and it's strange now to hear the announcement of the ending, and remember just how long ago it was (years and years!) since it first began. I never did make my Star Power outfit, though I do still have the jumpsuit we ordered from the internet to be the base. I should finish that.
benign_cremator was going to make me a glowing broadsword and rig the outfit so I'd actually light up. I'm sad it's ending; while I know they'll give it a good wrap-up, there are so many stories left to be told with these characters. (I know everyone's burned out on superheroes, but this has always been something different, and special. Even as I have *completely* burned out on Marvel I have never stopped reading Star Power.)Also it's the year of NO CONS, which means getting my hands on the rest of the books will require more effort than usual; normally I wander up the table at ConBust and buy the latest one and have it signed. One year in full faerie queen regalia I even swept a deep curtsy and told him that his work was known in the Seelie court and my queen had bid me bring back a signed book for her, to which he played along beautifully.
