Are you enjoying the Time of Eve?
I got the internship! Feck, I'm excited. I don't officially start until next Monday, but they're sending me a manga to review tomorrow, so I'll be expecting that sometime this week. So I'm excited, but also really nervous that I might find a way to screw this up because that something I'd do. Especially because I'll be covering DC and Marvel
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No, I kid. Thanks for the congrats. What sort of thing or field are you looking into?
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I wish I could find a neat little online job like that. It'd be great to work from home.
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And you're covering DC and Marvel comics as well? Awesome! Which ones? I used to read DC comics, but I stopped after they destroyed and/or killed my favorite characters. Blergh! :P
I still read some Marvel comics though. ^_^
Is Time of Eve a drama? My parents are so into those. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to find them watching on the computer. ^^;
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I don't know if I'll be reviewing their comics yet. I've been told to pay attention to DC and Marvel's news updates and such, so I can report on those. But I know what you mean about them screwing over favorite characters. During the M-Day plot however many years back, most of my favorite New Mutants either lost their abilities and/or died/became irrelevant.
It kind of is. There's somewhat of a slice-of-life aspect to the series, and the humor is very cute when it crops up. Then the show throws in a really dramatic scene that makes the whole episode very bittersweet. I really like it, and it's a short watch. There are four episodes up at about 16 or so minutes, and if I read right there are only two left. It's an internet OAV, so it takes a while for the next episode to be posted, but it's a great example of anime.
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Ugh, M-Day! That sucked so much. I hated the Avengers Disassembled, House of M, and M-Day story lines. Marvel just used Wanda as a plot device so they could make a new team of Avengers and to make the mutants and the X-Men "interesting" again. That and they overdid it with the whole mutant powers thing. It wasn't feasible to call the mutant population an oppressed minority anymore the way things were going back then.
Do you know that Marvel recently re-launched New Mutants again? I never read New Mutants before so I checked out the first issue and it seemed good. I think I'll be checking out the next issue.
If it's a short watch then I might check it out. Now that I'm on summer break, I'll need stuff to do. :D
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I only read the New X-Men line back then -- one-trick pony, hahh -- so I didn't know how M-Day was affecting the rest of the Marvelverse. But the writers were very kill-happy during that arc, and it embittered me how poorly they treated the cast in general. It felt like someone was dying every two issues or something. Sure, I can understand the need to take the title towards a more serious, worldly direction, but all the death felt like overkill.
No, I didn't realize that! I'm more familiar with the younger crop of New Mutants like Surge, Elixir -- yeah, pretty much the rest of that six-man team died or became depowered and irrelevant -- and the Hellions. But I was always a little bit interested in the earlier New Mutant generation, so I'll have to check that out.
Yes, and tell me what you think of it when you do! ^.^;;
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