MORE MARVEL GAY!
It's nice to see the family again. Everyone's the same, really: Mom's still teaching yoga, dad's still a whiny gimp (I mean this in a loving, daughterly way), and Lewis is still really quiet, but it's great to be back.
Dudley is at the beach, Wes is in Asheville, Rob is...I dunno, camping out on the Blueridge Parkway, no doubt, and Caitlin and Kaleigh are in Fuquay, so it's just me, doing the Durham thing.
OOOOOH, FINALLY! I picked up my subscriptions at Ultimate Comics. YAAAY! So nice to have time to sit and read without having to worry about class and stuff. And, luckily for you, I have time to review what I've read.
X-Men: Manifest Destiny
Issues 1-3 out of 5
A series of short stories on how the X-men are doing in San Francisco. Nothing to do with Secret Invasion or Ghost Boxes, just some updates on how the different characters are adapting to the new Institute. Each issue has three stories, and each is written and illustrated/inked by different writers/artists. Really cool.
Finally explained who Greymalkin is - a hundred or so years ago, his father caught him with another boy in their barn, and beat him almost to death. Then, he buried him alive. Great, thanks dad. His mutant powers activated, and Grimalkin managed to live for a few decades before being 'excavated'. Talk about a shitty coming-out story. And of course, he's telling all this to Anole, the other token gay X-man. Still, gay content. Always good. And it was written by a male writer, too! Yay!
A little Emma Frost: "But I'm a bad guy, why does Cyclops love me, I feel so isolated from everybody else, blahblahblah." It was actually really sad and good, I like her a lot more than I did initially, that's for sure. Anyone but Jean Grey, really.
Colossus is still torn up about Kitty. Well, so am I. Joss Whedon, you bastard. If I didn't love Buffy and Firefly and Runaways, I'd hunt you down and smack you in the face. Repeatedly. Oh, and thanks for dropping the Wonder Woman project, you jerk. Raaarr. There's a gay parade/party thing in this story though, which is good. Hooray for San Francisco!
Other issues I got that there's no way I'm reviewing, because no one would really care (in fact, if you've made it this far, I'm impressed):
Wonder Woman #26, Astonishing X-Men #27, Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes #1, Uncanny X-Men #503 and #504, Secret Invasion X-Men #3 and #4, Secret Invasion #7, Young X-Men #7 and #8, House of Mystery #4, Wonder Woman: Rise of the Olympian #26, Invincible #54 and #55, Echo #7, NYX No Way Home #3, Hellboy: The Crooked Man #3, Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch #1, Runaways #3 and #4, The Dresden Files: Storm Front #1.
Hey, it's not a very expensive hobby. At least I don't collect like...swords or something.
Dudley is at the beach, Wes is in Asheville, Rob is...I dunno, camping out on the Blueridge Parkway, no doubt, and Caitlin and Kaleigh are in Fuquay, so it's just me, doing the Durham thing.
OOOOOH, FINALLY! I picked up my subscriptions at Ultimate Comics. YAAAY! So nice to have time to sit and read without having to worry about class and stuff. And, luckily for you, I have time to review what I've read.
X-Men: Manifest Destiny
Issues 1-3 out of 5
A series of short stories on how the X-men are doing in San Francisco. Nothing to do with Secret Invasion or Ghost Boxes, just some updates on how the different characters are adapting to the new Institute. Each issue has three stories, and each is written and illustrated/inked by different writers/artists. Really cool.
Finally explained who Greymalkin is - a hundred or so years ago, his father caught him with another boy in their barn, and beat him almost to death. Then, he buried him alive. Great, thanks dad. His mutant powers activated, and Grimalkin managed to live for a few decades before being 'excavated'. Talk about a shitty coming-out story. And of course, he's telling all this to Anole, the other token gay X-man. Still, gay content. Always good. And it was written by a male writer, too! Yay!
A little Emma Frost: "But I'm a bad guy, why does Cyclops love me, I feel so isolated from everybody else, blahblahblah." It was actually really sad and good, I like her a lot more than I did initially, that's for sure. Anyone but Jean Grey, really.
Colossus is still torn up about Kitty. Well, so am I. Joss Whedon, you bastard. If I didn't love Buffy and Firefly and Runaways, I'd hunt you down and smack you in the face. Repeatedly. Oh, and thanks for dropping the Wonder Woman project, you jerk. Raaarr. There's a gay parade/party thing in this story though, which is good. Hooray for San Francisco!
Other issues I got that there's no way I'm reviewing, because no one would really care (in fact, if you've made it this far, I'm impressed):
Wonder Woman #26, Astonishing X-Men #27, Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes #1, Uncanny X-Men #503 and #504, Secret Invasion X-Men #3 and #4, Secret Invasion #7, Young X-Men #7 and #8, House of Mystery #4, Wonder Woman: Rise of the Olympian #26, Invincible #54 and #55, Echo #7, NYX No Way Home #3, Hellboy: The Crooked Man #3, Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch #1, Runaways #3 and #4, The Dresden Files: Storm Front #1.
Hey, it's not a very expensive hobby. At least I don't collect like...swords or something.