life sucks

i haven't posted anything recently, that's because work has kept me very busy.
work sucks.
not in just the normal ways either. in the past week there have been three thefts at my store (one of which we did manage to stop.) i was there for all three of them. i've had to deal with this shit three times in the last week and i haven't had a day off yet. it happened lat friday, saturday and then last night.
i was supposed to have today , tomorrow and friday off.
but because one of my coworkers is, frankly, an idiot. I've been called in today. and to top it all off i have to fill in for her on friday as well.
i just lost two days off because of her being stupid. I needed those days off.
I'm i wreck right now.
and added to that if she continues to fail that stupid test, continues to not have a food handlers card, i might have to miss kumoricon because we wont have enough people to cover.

add another crack to the china doll.

the dynamic

recently i've been thinking about the dynamic of the YHA.
in the past i pictured it as a kind of home/school/ life for them but that doesn't make any sense from Miss M's POV. she created it. it was her idea and even if she didn't have much of a childhood she would still want them to have one. in her mind it's more of an exclusive club. Adam is the one who starts going out on patrols (and that is after Miss M says he shouldn't) because he's bored and thinks he's ready.
when Ben turns up Miss M thinks things will go back to the 'club' idea.

this is where things change.

Ben turns her down. he says thanks but he doesn't think he has the personality to be a hero. he goes home she covers up the fact that he was the one on the carpet and leaves the offer open. Adam however in stuck on the idea and goes to Ben's home to see why he really said no. that's when he finds out Ben is adopted. Ben recognizes him and they go for a walk and end up talking about stuff. it turns out that Ben has been experimenting a little. "i didn't do it on purpose, i was just thinking and then it kind of happened." they become friends and Ben is grateful that Adam is there because he has no one else to talk to about his powers. they start getting together whenever Ben is in the city and eventually Ben does join the team. however since he can fly he still lives at home and it becomes something like an after school job or club. he has a room there if he needs to spend the night but doesn't use it too often.
then Criss comes along and she ends up living there. Dylan is about half and half depending on her dads schedule. after Dylan joins Ben ends up spending more time with the YHA because he has more responsibility and because everyone else is always there.

Young Justice

something I'm looking foreword to

Yay DC

a while back i made a big fuss about DC not keeping up with Marvel
i have been proven wrong.
ever since then i have been finding tons of animated movies that have come out since 2000 add to that the green lantern movie, a third batman movie and a superman reboot (since lets face it no one liked the old superman movies) on the way plus a possible flash movie to be confirmed. then there's a new animated series Young Justice. the new Blue beetle series and a green lantern series (rumored) to start after the movie comes out.



thank you DC for restoring my faith in you.

origins

so recently i've been trying to work out how everyone came to be a member of the YHA and think of them as comics. originally i was going to start with Gavin's origin and go from there but now that Adam has proved to be such an interesting character he's getting his own origin (which is also the start of the YHA) and after that i figured I'd do one for each of them.
I've also worked out that there is at least one story between each origin, and Adam and Ben have a few stories before the others come in.

also i'm going to do them comic style each story between 15 and 35 pages, as if in a comic book.

Batman comics

i went out today and bought a bunch of comics.
top of my list was The Return of Bruce Wayne #4 and #2 both of which i was able to snag so good times. i didn't manage to get batman beyond #2 but i'll find it...
the return of Bruce Wayne is good, but i wish it was a bit longer or something. the whole thing seems to be talking about the world ending if he makes it back to the present. WE ALL WANT HIM TO GET BACK TO THE PRESENT. or at least i do. not to mention that nothing can stop him. he is batman after all. he'll either remember or superman will catch up to him and tell him the whole story but if they try to stop him physically he'll either go into another time slip or just be bad ass enough to defeat them.
there has to be a twist.
i will be very disappointed if there isn't a twist.

Mayors art show

this is the version of Adam that i have submitted to the Mayors art show the final piece will be 12" by 17" and i really hope i get in.
also the title is just young hero since it's on it's own not part of the set.

titles V2

POWER and the will to use it.
COURAGE to do the right thing
LOYALTY in the face of opposition
HONOR in the name of what's right
HOPE for the future we build
PASSION for what one holds dear
PERSEVERANCE when faced with unspeakable odds

these are the titles for the seven hero pictures. they are in order Adam first Gavin Last.

the reasons

so i guess i haven't been posting things for the past few weeks here are the reasons.
1: I'm working full time
2: i was focusing on finishing my piece for the mayors art show
3: i was "doing research" on blue beetle comics
4: i was researching the DC time-line (confusing as anything can be)
5: i was trying to figure out what else i can do with the YHA

this last one is the important one. see, i've gotten to the point where i either need to start figuring out plot lines for individual stories or start introducing new characters. possibly both if those characters are villains.
see, I've gotten to the point where the first generation is growing up. Adam "dies" Criss hangs up her cape and not long later Dylan decides to go to college or the police academy or whatever. at the same time Ben says that he's leaving and hands over leadership to Erin. they think that's going to be it (since that would leave the teem with 4 members (by this point Ben's sister has joined the group as Hannah)) but then Gavin says he's leaving as well. everyone is a bit surprised but he is the same age as the others so it makes a kind of sense. after that everyone thinks Fey is going to leave as well but she decides to stick around and train the new recruits.

so Erin becomes the leader of the Second generation. (yes it was the third a while back but i've changed my mind.)

with all my characters splitting up it becomes a different story, or set of stories. i was trying to figure out what to do, and i still am.