Who was that masked man?

If you've read Identity Crisis #1, AND are reading this, odds are good that by the end of the issue you were scratching your head and asking, "wait, who?"

I didn't have more than the vaguest idea, myself, but found a very helpful bio here at the wonderful Titans Tower site.

For those who have not read the issue as yet, and wish to remain unspoiled... a villain mentioned in IC#1, who apparently will be significant to the unfolding drama at least through issue #2, is among the villains profiled on the page I linked to. As there are a number of character bios (the members through several incarnations of one of the villain teams) all on the same page, one could, if so inclined, read ALL the backgrounds there, so as to go into the eventual reading of Identity Crisis informed about (one of) the villain(s) who will figure in it without actually being spoiled.

OMG LJ R R0X0R L33T

What a nice thing to wake up to -- I start replying to comments on my most recent livejournal post (and I'm behind on both doing that and commenting on some of the brilliant fic that's come out this past week, but I digress), and when I click the Reply to this link on the first comment, instead of the talkpost.bml?replyto page loading after a slight delay, some spiffy little script INSTANTANEOUSLY opened a simplified reply dialogue, right in the entry's comment view.

You can only control the subject line and text of your comment in the new magic script box -- no options to post anonymously or log in if you aren't already, no choice of user icons or annoying ID bar junk emoticon, no way to get a preview. But, if you do want any of that stuff, you just click the "More Options..." button instead of the "Post Comment" button (and you still can't post a blank comment, so if you click the wrong button, you get taken to a talkpost page anyway, with a little advisory that Your message was blank).

edit²:
The script has now been adjusted to allow users to select their choice of icon when using the short form. Go LJ development team!

This is a spiffy, spiffy improvement to LJ's utility.

Now, if there was just a Current food: notation built in, like the Current mood: and Current music: are...


edited¹ to add:

LJ giveth, and LJ taketh away...

According to the support page,

Users may experience errors when accessing Memories from communities or other friends. This is due to a recent code upgrade, and developers are working to resolve this issue.

As near as I've been able to tell, what this actually means is that NO user can view ANY other user's memories, even if the user whose memories they are wants them to be public. Major suck for fans of the dcfic_index (liviapenn, take note), as well as for folks like ME who use the memories function to index their LJ fiction, or like thete1 who uses it to provide handy links to all her icons posts... no, you know what? This just sucks.

Let's all pray LJ's development team assigns a higher priority to fixing this issue than they did to the XColibur display problem...


edit³: Memories access now appears to be working as it should once more. Is this site not the best?

More spoiler-free talk about Identity Crisis (the who-bites-it, not the whodunit)

Back on Wednesday, I posted a guess I hoped was wrong about who might die in Identity Crisis, on my way out to the comixshop to pick up my copy of #1. There's only speculation in it, but it IS of a (remotely) possibly spoilery nature, so it's not for those avoiding all semblance of spoilers. (Me, I just don't want the hard spoilers; the ones that give me just enough to make me wonder, like what's in the solicit copy, are something else again.) Anyway, that post is here. People have been good so far about not spoiling anything in the comments, and I'll try to screen any that are spoilery as soon as possible after they go up.

There's no concrete spoilers in this post, either, but as it contains quotes from an interview with IC's author, Brad Meltzer, ( I'm cutting for spoilers again )

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Thanks to everyone who's refrained from posting spoilery comments on these deliberately spoiler-free entries, and please, keep that up.