Blessed by the Megabookstore Gods

[alixtii]

Yesterday I bought:

Consequences of Prgagmatism, Richard Rorty
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche
X-Factor, Vol. 2: Life & Death Matters, Peter David
New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 4, Craig Kyle & Chris Yost
Ultimate Spiderman, Vol. 17: The Clone Saga, Brian Michael Bendis

I am

Comments

[booster17]

Layla Miller is wondeful, and gets some of the best lines in X-Factor, though I suspect my absolute favourite line (which reduces Madrox to paranoic panic for some time) is in the next volume alas.

And Ultimate Spiderwoman really needs to come back.

[alixtii]

In my version of reality, Ultimate Spiderwoman never leaves. I mean, really--such a tiny AU, and all of a sudden you have MJ/Jessica/Kitty/Peter orgies as the inevitable endpoint. (And I don't have to explain just how many of my kinks Jessica/Peter hits, do I?)

I'm already busy plotting.

[booster17]

I wish to read this. Pronto. Post-haste. In fact, right now.

Don't make me beg..... pls?

[alixtii]

I just need to decide which pairings would happen first. Kitty's bisexual in 616 (or so I am told), but there's no indication of that here (maybe Colossus stole her gay?)* YET (that's why we have fanfic). Jessica being in love with MJ is canon, and her being a lesbian makes as much sense as anything. Jess and Peter would have a lot of beautifully awkward UST living in the same house together. And Peter and MJ are dating at the point in canon.

*OMG, somebody has to icon Kitty confronting Ult!Colossus and demanding he give her her gay back.

[booster17]

616 Kitty is bisexual? I suppose so... but I had to stretch my mind back a looong way to see that. Although it does explain her closeness to Illyania and Rachel a lot. Though the big one would have to be around Excaliber (original series) 25 IIRC - the subtext around her and Courtney/Saturnyne was blatant text at that point. (Soon to be traded I think).

Personally, I prefer her with Pete Wisdom.

[alixtii]

I am so not an old school fan, so everything I know about Kitty pre-Astonishing is hearsay. And while I'd be potentially interested in Pryde/Wisdom or Kitty/Rachel (Kitty/Piotr just leaves me cold), I think the not being-an-old-school-fan thing comes into play again (I just can't get into anything pre-Morrison).

Oh well, there's always Kitty/Emma (and other Astonishing noncanon Kitty ships), and Ultimateverse, and Movieverse.

[booster17]

Pryde/Wisdom and the surrounding Excaliber issues were all done by Warren Ellis, so I do strongly recommend them. Alas, I don't think they've ever been traded. *sob*

Btw, I was reminded recently that over the years a couple of X-Men have found their minds stuck in Emma's body and vice versa : Iceman and Storm (though I suspect a third one may exist IIRC). Hell of a thing if that ever happened to Kitty....

[booster17]

Apparently, when I said 'soon to be traded', I meant this week.

Checking the reprint in question, it's certainly very blatent there - Courtney offering birthday cake on her finger to Kitty and her sucking it off. *raises eyebrow*