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Canon: Legion of Super-Heroes
Pairing: Querl Dox/Lyle Norg
Canon Level: Friends/Colleagues

I am most familiar with the Threeboot continuity, fairly familiar with the Rebooted continuity, and somewhat familiar with the cartoon continuity. I am down with Brainiac 5 and Lyle in whatever incarnation I can get them, although the Reboot continuity is the most adorable version. Brainy and Lyle are a good match for each other intellectually, Brainy being more intelligent and Lyle being more creative, so they feel like they'd make good partners. Querl's not always the best at social situations, but I feel like Lyle would understand as he's one of the very few people who can follow Querl's though process and who can appreciate fully Brainy's efforts. And I think Lyle would pose a good challenge to Brainy and force him to expand his thinking and keep him from getting stuck.

Suggested reading:
Something That Never Happened To Lyle And Brainy by amarin_rose
Uncertainties by dorksidefiker
Demythologizers by Sparcck
The significance of the sleepnet by _angelicorn_

Canon: DC Comics
Pairing: Bart Allen/Tim Drake/Kon-El
Canon Level: Friends

Do I ship the trio because I like all the sub-permutations? Do I like the sub-ships because I think the trio is nifty keen? Or did I just like a couple of the sub-ships so I decided to try the trio and ended up liking the other permutation as well? I do not know, nor do I care. Because, see, the whole point of the poly ship, for me, is that while all the pairings work on at least some level, they work best when they're all mixed up together. Just Kon and Tim spends a lot of time on the broody side of the spectrum, even though I think they'd enjoy the company in their angst-fest, so having Bart around would help them not be consumed by the angst fest. Just Bart and Kon could spend a lot of time goofing around without ever getting into the nitty-gritty of an actual talk about their feelings, but having Tim around, even though he's not an open sort of person, could lend some weight to any conversations they have and get them to be serious. And just Tim and Bart...okay, I think that one works well as is, but I like adding Kon in. I've a lot of lingering fondness for him, mostly based on how ridiculously 90s he was at first, I will admit.

Suggested reading:
The Place You Are by Rubynye
Vampyre and Zhombies of London by girl_starfish
This One Time, In Young Justice by Moontyger

Canon: DC Comics
Pairing: Bart Allen/Tim Drake
Canon Level: Friends

Bart and Tim would be adorable. Tim's so serious and secretive most of the time that getting him to loosen up is an effort. (And, no, the act he puts up of a normal kid around people who don't know about Robin doesn't count.) But I think Bart's energy and high spirits would be able to do the trick. And Bart doesn't generally come across as smart, but that doesn't mean he's not thinking or that he doesn't know things. Tim's very good at evaluating people, so I think he'd be more likely than most to see Bart's strengths and take him seriously. They'd balance each other out well.

Suggested reading:
A Lover Without Indiscretion by Mara
Best Days of Our Lives by derryderrydown
Third Wheel by shrift

Canon: DC Comics (Green Lantern/Green Arrow)
Pairing: Connor Hawk/Kyle Rayner
Canon Level: Friends

I like Kyle, despite his comic being the origin of the phrase "women in refrigerators." He's probably my third-favorite Green Lantern. Connor and Kyle are a nice variety of the classic Green Lantern/Green Arrow team up, a more low-key version than Ollie and Hal. They can bond over the legacies that they feel like they're failing to live up to, but I like their slightly less storied superhero careers as a much more relaxing alternative to read about than the big names.

Suggested reading:
Which Is Not Freely Given by keelywolf
Young Love In An Old Ford by aurigae_prime
O'er the Dark-Green Sea by poisonivory

Canon: DC Comics - Impulse (1995-2002)
Pairing: Bart Allen/Carol Bucklen
Canon Level: Friends Who Were At One Point Interested In Each Other

Bart and Carol were so cute together in Impulse. I mean, Bart was a sweet kid in general back during his Impulse days, with more enthusiasm than sense and a lot of heart underneath it all. (Don't ask me what he's up to nowadays; I stopped reading DC a while ago.) And Carol was a great foil/companion for Bart. She was smart and logical and still understood Bart. They made a great team, and I will forever be annoyed at how DC torpedoed their potential relationship.

Suggested reading:
Keep Your Secrets by museofspeed
Afterglow by amarin_rose

Haha, this has been the month of comic books for me. It's been great.

Scary Godmother: Ghoul's Out for Summer, by Jill Thompson: The art makes this comic. Story-wise, it's not bad. It's fun and it's cute, but I wouldn't love this book like I do if the art was only half as fantastic as it is. It's expressive and detailed without being cluttered, and Jill Thompson makes her characters come alive in her drawings. I want to watch the movie based on this series now. I've seen it before, but the CG characters in it failed to be even slightly interesting for me. I think, now that I can fill in the blanks from the comic, I'd like the movie if I were to see it again.

Blue Beetle v1: Shellshocked, by Keith Giffen (writer) and Cully Hammer (artist): I wish all superhero comics were like this, with family and friends and other interpersonal relationships being just as important in the story as whatever evil plot our hero has to foil.

PS238 v1-4, by Aaron Williams: Dude, I read all four volumes in two days and am now sad that I didn't buy volume five last time I was in the comic shop. This series is great! It's about an elementary school for metahuman children. And, oh, it's adorable and funny and occasionally heart-wrenching. Also, volume three makes much more sense when I've gotten to read the two books before it.

I am at work. Work = time to read comics. Time to read comics means time for commentary. Because I like to.

( LSH v4 #021, Ultimate Fantastic Four #01-14 )

And on a completely unrelated note, it is very hard to convince Yanks to eat king cake. ::le sigh:: I am constantly appalled at the foods Northerners deem good. (Okay, not appalled. But they definitely need some help adding spice to stuff.)