Because of course I need an expensive interest...
I blame Linkara!
Yep, got an interest in comics now. To be specific, the X Men corner of the Marvel universe, which is probably down to watching cartoons old and not so old (Jesus, that was ten years agao. Damn I hate things that make me feel old!). And there was some movies, pity they only made 2 lalala not listening!
I am faced with decades worth of convoluted storylines, retcons and author wankery. My God, the author wankery.
It's beautiful!
Currently I've been enjoying the eightiestastic New Mutants (and looking ahead on wikipedia I get to shake my fist and go "Damn you Liefeld" as if I were an old pro.) Scottish werewolf! Robot type alien with adorable speech pattern! Poor dead Doug Ramsey! And there is a modern continuation title out now to taunt me and my wallet.
In current titles I have been trying to catch up with X Factor, which hits my snarky and obliviously-dorky main character kink and has canon gay! Between two men! Written by a male author! And it doesn't have Wolverine! Sorry Logan, love you but damn do you get around. Even though that author is quite an egotist and probably killed the old scans_daily. And there is X Force, which wouldn't normally be my thing, (it is an X Men spinoff that does have Wolverine) but has Scottish Werewolf getting put through the wringer. Damn writers!
And today I picked up the fisrt volume of Joss Whedon's Astonishing X Men run. I probably would have ended up shaking my fist going "Damn you Whedon!" but upcoming X Men spoilers spoiled one of the things he did in that, leaving me shaking my head and saying "oh of course you did that Joss." At least in comics there's always a good chance that a few years later another writer will come along and undo it.
Yep, got an interest in comics now. To be specific, the X Men corner of the Marvel universe, which is probably down to watching cartoons old and not so old (Jesus, that was ten years agao. Damn I hate things that make me feel old!). And there was some movies, pity they only made 2 lalala not listening!
I am faced with decades worth of convoluted storylines, retcons and author wankery. My God, the author wankery.
It's beautiful!
Currently I've been enjoying the eightiestastic New Mutants (and looking ahead on wikipedia I get to shake my fist and go "Damn you Liefeld" as if I were an old pro.) Scottish werewolf! Robot type alien with adorable speech pattern! Poor dead Doug Ramsey! And there is a modern continuation title out now to taunt me and my wallet.
In current titles I have been trying to catch up with X Factor, which hits my snarky and obliviously-dorky main character kink and has canon gay! Between two men! Written by a male author! And it doesn't have Wolverine! Sorry Logan, love you but damn do you get around. Even though that author is quite an egotist and probably killed the old scans_daily. And there is X Force, which wouldn't normally be my thing, (it is an X Men spinoff that does have Wolverine) but has Scottish Werewolf getting put through the wringer. Damn writers!
And today I picked up the fisrt volume of Joss Whedon's Astonishing X Men run. I probably would have ended up shaking my fist going "Damn you Whedon!" but upcoming X Men spoilers spoiled one of the things he did in that, leaving me shaking my head and saying "oh of course you did that Joss." At least in comics there's always a good chance that a few years later another writer will come along and undo it.