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Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!

Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!

Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.


Polter-Cow - May 04, 2009 6:53:07 am PDT #2234 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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.


§ ita § - May 08, 2009 9:20:19 am PDT #2235 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


DavidS - May 08, 2009 9:46:05 am PDT #2236 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

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?"


Polter-Cow - May 09, 2009 8:33:33 pm PDT #2237 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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


Atropa - May 14, 2009 6:30:26 pm PDT #2238 of 5059
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

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


Ailleann - May 14, 2009 6:39:21 pm PDT #2239 of 5059
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Because I didn't go buy it yet?


Cashmere - May 14, 2009 6:42:16 pm PDT #2240 of 5059
Now tagless for your comfort.

Because it blew the back off of my head.


Polter-Cow - May 14, 2009 6:54:34 pm PDT #2241 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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.


Cashmere - May 14, 2009 7:00:24 pm PDT #2242 of 5059
Now tagless for your comfort.

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.


Atropa - May 14, 2009 8:20:16 pm PDT #2243 of 5059
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Because it blew the back off of my head.

Heeeee.

I need to re-read all six issues of this arc, now.