So, X-Men First Class. Saw it on Thursday at a special screening from Teen.com, for an audience that was decidedly not teenage. There were at least some people in their early twenties, and some people brought their kids, though it's not really a kids' movie, mostly due to the themes and not language or violence ( Read more... )

X-Men: Misfits
written by Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier
art by Anzu

I can't exactly say I was looking forward to this when they first announced it, but I was interested, at least. tricianna read it and pretty much said it was just a typical dumb shoujo manga, so maybe I was less interested then? Well, the library had it so I have now read it ( Read more... )

So I made this post over two years ago. How have my wishes panned out since then ( Read more... )

Dear Marvel Comics,

Seeing as how American Gladiators has gladiators named Phoenix, Venom, and Siren, I think it's only fair that you name your next superheroine "Hellga."

Sincerely,
lampbane

Finally read Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men last night.

So hey, Joss, that big world-saving plan? Yeah, that might have been really great if I hadn't seen it on Stargate SG-1 twice already. Maybe even three times.

So booooooo on you.

Astonishing X-Men started off okay, but then it stopped making sense somewhere in the middle. Or with the ( Read more... )

Great thing about working in midtown is all the free samples you get handed when you walk around. Today, the Nabisco people are everywhere with little 100-calorie snack packs. Yum yum. (I still haven't drunk that bottle of G2 I got several weeks ago - Gatorade is nasty, blegh.)

Randomosity: It burns us, precious.

Picked up a stack of trades at Comic-Con, which oddly enough, included no actual X-Men books, but got me thinking about the X-Men anyway. (For the record, the books were New Avengers vols. 1-3, which featured Wolverine, and the Captain Britain TPB, which featured Psylocke ( Read more... )

There are other things that I should really post about, like the con, and the funeral, but I'm just so freakin' tired right now. I am so absolutely useless at work today. Hopefully I'll get some sleep tonight and will be able to crank out those pages of text tomorrow ( Read more... )