Things That Make You Go "Aww"

[arachnekallisti]

1. Garth Ennis. Sometime genius, sometime juvenile git. This, though, is pure Genius Ennis. A moment from the late lamented Hitman comic, a rather touching slice of Superman angst, and some interesting thoughts on where the big blue boy scout fits into the mythology of the American Dream.

2. A rather sweet Harry Potter fic sending up the particular variant of bad fic in which a hardcore Evangelical Christian who believes magic is evil gets sent to Hogwarts. It's fairly obviously High Church Anglican flavoured, but it's written well enough that even a hardcore atheist like myself went "awww".

3. More gratuitous cats being really rather silly in a cute kind of way.

Comments

[ignisophis.livejournal.com]

I do like the Hitman/JLA crossovering - there's an interview with Garth here (http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=113158) where he talks a bit more about it.

[arachnekallisti.livejournal.com]

Ah, Hitman. Half touching and brilliant, half just there to shock. Like Dogwelder. And he's not even the worst thing Ennis came up with there.

[prochytes.livejournal.com]

These were adorable. I particularly liked Ennis's evocations of emblematic moments in American history, and how Tommy can see what Big Blue stands for even though his own practice is, ahem, rather different. He reminded me here a bit of Jenna. "Maybe some dreams are worth having", indeed.

And the HP fic was very sweet too, especially in its detailed evocation of different strands in British Christian belief. I went to Walsingham on pilgrimage myself once, long ago, when I was still approximately devout. Still have the vial of holy water somewhere...

[arachnekallisti.livejournal.com]

There are bits in Hitman which do have this wonderfully melancholy tarnished idealism thing going on. And then you have the horrible bad taste moments. I mentioned Dogwelder a couple of comments up. Oh gods, Dogwelder.

Ah yes, you mentioned the holy water. There is a reason why your flat will be the first port of call if I ever find myself being stalked by a suspiciously sparkly young man.