Me: And yet you do not actually want to read them.
Her: I want to want to read them.

It seems like maybe you are correct here and she doesn't want to read comics. Is she actually asking you for recommendations?

I might say "I don't really enjoy musicals; I wish I did." That doesn't mean I want to be given a list of musicals I should see. Because, well, I don't enjoy them.

It seems like maybe you are correct here and she doesn't want to read comics. Is she actually asking you for recommendations?

No, I've just been making suggestions since she brought up Free Comic Book Day. I'm sending her a bunch of free comics—she doesn't have any stores conveniently located, and she couldn't make a special trip on Saturday because of Shabbos—and the NML novelization, since she does want to read about the characters, just not in comic form. I looked back at some old conversations we had, and it seems that she dislikes everything that makes comics comics. As she put it, she's reading, but she doesn't get the benefits that come along with reading, i.e. getting to use her imagination since the drawings are right there.

But she still wishes she could get her free comics and keep trying, so she shall have them. Maybe one day it'll click for her, and maybe one day she'll finally give up. Who knows.

Blogger harshes on Storm. I don't see how Storm is a much more unattainable fantasy than Wonder Woman or Power Girl or Wolverine. We don't look like that, we don't do those things.

I still think she rocks.

Storm is one of the greatest and most influential characters in the history of superhero comics. She's had more great stories featuring her as the lead than any other female hero.

For Amych: The unaired Batgirl pilot from the sixties with Yvonne Craig. I had forgotten that her skirt reverses and converts into her cape, and that her mask can be disguised as a hat.

Bonus: Batgirl song with annoying chorus of "Whose baby are you?"

I just finished re-reading No Man's Land.

Why are none of you talking about issue 12 of The Umbrella Academy ? Whyyyyyy?!

Because I didn't go buy it yet?

Because it blew the back off of my head.

Heeee. That was pretty awesome.

It was so depressing! Also, it makes a lot more sense for Number Five and Spaceboy to be twins than Number Five and Rumor, even though I liked that idea because they're my two favorite characters.

Because I didn't go buy it yet?

I heard a rumor you did.

Love the ending of UA.

But I'm doubly glad of the resolution to the Dawn boinked a thricewise plot.

I've decided to check out Kick Ass and have six issues waiting for me.