The second X-Men: First Class collection came out in trade paperback this week, and it has managed to accomplish something that I would have honestly said, with a straight face, was entirely impossible: it's managed to actually make me like Jean Grey. My fondness doesn't extend into the modern day, mind you -- I haven't liked anything they've done ( Read more... )

I woke up four minutes before the alarm -- always a more pleasant start than the blare of sirens in my ear -- with the remains of a fascinating dream about a country divided by political differences and pandemic infectious leprotic cytosis lingering in my head. Even my dreams have nasty tricks of virology in them. Not that I'm complaining. Lilly ( Read more... )

10. The Petco in Walnut Creek has some surprisingly excellent iguanas in residence, considering that it's, y'know, a Petco, land of killing small reptiles through misadventure and improper care. One of them spent a great deal of time and energy tail-whipping their climbing stick to demonstrate that it wasn't afraid of the big pink monkeys. I ( Read more... )

I just had a fairly lengthy argument with the counter monkeys at my comic book store about whether or not I actually have volume eighteen of Ultimate Spider-Man in trade. We all pretty much agreed that we had no idea, but being comic book fans, were entirely unable to agree on this fact without fighting first. Heh.

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Title: Ten Things About Scott Summers, As Seen By Hank McCoy.
Rating: R.
Fandom: X-Men, all main universe titles.
Synopsis: Written for dcb42, for the Winterthing round of Iron Author. Somewhat of a companion piece to Ten Things About Kitty Pryde, As Seen By Bobby Drake. Scott/Emma, Scott/Jean, not Scott/Beast, because I am not a perverted freak. ( Read more... )

10. I like to read 'The Long Walk', by Stephen King, while taking long walks. 'The Long Walk' is about a game show-like endurance test where a hundred boys start walking, and keep walking, without rest, until all but one are dead. I find this oddly soothing. If I knew why, it would probably disturb me ( Read more... )

( In which Seanan, without really being grounded in the events of 'Civil War', contemplates what's happened since the Scarlet Witch put the big baddaboom down on the mutants of the world. Just assume spoilers for like, every X-title currently running, since I'm going to be a little sprawling here. )

Title: Countdown.
Rating: PG.
Fandom: X-Men.
Synopsis: Counting down the Stepford Cuckoos, from five to one. Spoilers for Grant Morrison's entire run, and for 'Phoenix: Endsong'. Written for a host of people, but most especially for melata_fic, batyatoon and brigidsblest, in celebration of Cuckoo Warning Day.

( Their earliest memories are such a jumble that they don't know, even now, which belong to who, which experiences are tied to which bodies, which scars were intially dealt to which seedling psyches... )

...the director managed to include the Stepford Cuckoos in several scenes, thus causing me to very nearly snort popcorn out of my nose in my giddy squealing.

Why did no one TELL me about this?!

Clearly, I rule the universe.

( Click here for Scott's final words in the latest issue of 'New X-Men'. Which are not, ironically, spoilers for the issue itself, unless you count Scott being alive to deliver them, which I don't, 'cause dude, he's Cyclops and this isn't the flagship title. )