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papajoemambo

I'm not proud - I'll speak about myself in the plural...

Oct 05, 2007 19:22

(Kev - I think Logan and Barnie will really like this one. Let Liam-Boy know that I have some beautifully knuckle-headed Ben & Johnny coming very soon.)

"Why We Here At The Cellar Full O' Noise Love Jeff Parker and Colleen Coover" Dept.:

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thebitterguy October 6 2007, 01:11:53 UTC

That is so totally awesome.

Did a new Franklin Richards come in this week? I couldnt' make it into the store because I had to go to the Merrill.

papajoemambo October 6 2007, 04:35:09 UTC

Last week, actually - we sold out!

We're getting more in, I think.

thebitterguy October 6 2007, 04:48:05 UTC

Crap. The new store in Milton has failed me again!

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I want to think that Pietro sounds like Borat, if Borat was uptight and a little gay papajoemambo October 6 2007, 04:39:16 UTC

This is from two months ago. There is a decidedly retro feel to it, tho. I can't get enough of the stuff these two do together.

I also love the random pile of loose $100 bills that Warren has on his dresser the way the rest of us have quarters for laundry (this becomes a running joke in Parker's stories with the First Class of X-Men - they mentioned it again last ).

Ever Mr Parentheseis, That would be ME papajoemambo October 6 2007, 15:09:34 UTC

...month.

(that was the floating, missing word in the last parenthetical statement).

thehornedgod October 6 2007, 04:33:17 UTC

This is way cool. It's a team up made in heaven!

Jeff Parker, I'm telling y'all now, is one of the best writers working in comics, period papajoemambo October 6 2007, 15:22:10 UTC

Yeah, it's a good one.

I want to scan the issue where Xavier realises that Jean has no female role model so he asks Sue Storm to let her hang around with her for a little while. The stuff between Johnny and Jean is fun, and Parker really understands the different dynamic between how the kids at Xavier's Acadamy and the FF interact.

Re: Jeff Parker, I'm telling y'all now, is one of the best writers working in comics, period thehornedgod October 7 2007, 04:56:31 UTC

Oooh, Jean and Sue! We need more female partnerships, it's why I like Harley and Ivy so much.

mary_shelley77 October 6 2007, 05:47:38 UTC

Wow. This feels very. . . Archie.

Hanging out at Pop Tates, slurpin a soda... papajoemambo October 6 2007, 15:17:34 UTC

I agree - and I think something that's been missing from a lot of the X-Men stuff in the past 20 years or so is the whole Archie vibe that a lot of the "First Class" stuff from the 60's had when Stan or Roy or Werner Roth were writing the book.

They used to hang out with their non-mutant girlfriends at a coffee shop (with a resident slam poet named Bernie) and dance and act like teenagers (kind of like Archie). Now it's all about the blowing up and the ethnic cleansing metaphors.

I kind of wish Jeff would do a story where Bobby talks them into trying to put a band together. Or the Bobby-as-Archie, Hank-as-Jughead, Johnny-Storm-as-Reggie-Mantle story.

buzzylittleb October 6 2007, 08:01:00 UTC

*loves loves loves*

This is what I was missing. *grin*

Your tastes and mine are eerily similar when it comes to the books, Rach papajoemambo October 6 2007, 15:18:21 UTC

Just wait til you see the duckies...