Warning: This post will be of no interest if you don't know your X-Men ( Read more... )

Just had lunch with my homie Doreen. She goes to my church, she used to be an actress (she was Blanche in Streetcar, among other things), she's very wacky, and Tuesday was her eighty-seventh birthday. We talked about flies, dogs, bubble and squeak, and shutting up the kid at the table behind us. Her words ( Read more... )

Man, I sure do love comic books. Especially at the new reduced cost of free. Free things are cool ( Read more... )

When merichan starts her Vertigo convention, I will wear sunglasses and black clothes, gel my hair into clumps, carry a laptop and a bowel disruptor, and be Fat_Yelena. OH YES. OH, YES ( Read more... )

...Was pretty fun. Well, it wasn't really even a con, it was like... three dealers, two video rooms, and quite a few cosplayers. I got a Gaara poster and watched music videos. AMV Hell is the best montage ever and I highly reccommend it to everyone ( Read more... )

Okay, NOW I understand why everyone hates Chuck Austen.

Alex! Lorna! ...Bobby! NOOOOOOOOOO!

Annie? You and your dumb plot device of a child go STRAIGHT TO JAIL. DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT $200.

And now, a list of things I like and dislike about Chuck Austen!

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So. I don't believe I've mentioned this, but over Winter break, I downloaded 441 issues of Uncarry X-Men, as well as the Annuals and a number of related mini-series. I've been reading them since.

Now I'm on issue 283, it's 1991, Bishop just appeared, and I will share my thoughts.

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Starfire's hair ( Read more... )

...having just finished, I ask: what was the *point?* Also: for a comic that seemed to want to be so irreverant and honest, wasn't it all kind of pretentious ( Read more... )