after watching Numbers and Criminal Minds

[ratcreature]

I found this an odd coincidence: What is it with the homicidal comic book artists?? Is this a theme?

Also wrt CM, I think they should have at least established that the crazy guy had some prior interest in sword fighting or martial arts or something, because psychotic break or not, it rather stretched my suspension of disbelief to the breaking point that a single guy who hallucinated his opponents as furry bear monsters would be able to slaughter that many armed and violent gang members with two machetes (or whatever the swords were) without getting seriously hurt, if he didn't have at least some prior experience with wielding swords or some discipline where sticks stand in for swords.

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[fic-kitty.livejournal.com]

Dude, I just had to say that I said the *exact same thing* re:comic books to my parents whilst watching this.

Hivemind, totally.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, it's an odd coincidence for the bad guys of the week especially since it's not like comic book artists appear all that often in crime dramas, at least not that I have noticed, unlike, I don't know, the crazy conspiracy survivalist guy, or some stock characters.

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

What is it with the homicidal comic book artists?? Is this a theme?

There was one in Psych too.

[ratcreature]

I don't watch Psych (I tried two eps or so and it was too hard on my embarrassment squick) but that's interesting. Maybe it's really a trend now.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Somebody else saw that CM ep!

Te and I were all stoked the first 10-15 minutes of the episode -- 'we're going to be able to pimp this show to the comics people now! -- but then the woman (the only woman in the episode who wasn't part of the recurring cast, seriously, no women in the local police contingent with speaking roles, no women in the comics shop fan-throng at all) turned out to be in a refrigerator, and what we'd been presuming was a poke at or parody of Miller turned out to be a paean to him. Blecch.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, that's very true about his girlfriend. They adopted kind of the wrong things from comics in that respect.