You know who reads comics? HORRIBLE MURDERERS (and also you, hopefully.)

Heh. That strip was in one of the free comics I picked up on Saturday.

SPN Origins: (are we still WFing? it's monday, so we don't have to, but I will just in case) I kind of hate the art. And the colouring. But I love the John stuff. He's so lost, and that's conveyed very well in this. Also interesting to see him with a station wagon! I liked the last handful of pages the best, the Dean-Sam stuff (unsurprisingly). The moment where he begs Sam not to ask, and then says he'll take it all on himself? Gah. Bless his little fucked up heart.

Buffy: Oh, page three. You pwned me something fierce.

I am trying to get myself together to catch up on Runaways. I've got the first volume, but just haven't gotten around to it as I've been so involved with the wizard Dresden. Also on the catch-up: Astonishing, which I think I dropped around #14, and starting to wade through Lucifer all over again.

SA, on SPN: Origins, my fanwank re the station wagon (given that we see the Impala in the opening scenes of the Pilot) is that the Winchesters had two family cars. John had the Impala, and Mary used the station wagon with the kids. At first, after the fire, the station wagon seemed more practical--and safer--for hauling little kids around. Once he started hunting, however, something with a lot more power under the hood began to seem a lot safer than that big old tank of a station wagon.

I don't have my copy of SPN Origins yet but I did read someone's at the F2F, I let out a few Oh John!'s at the beginning.

I think my fanwank is that the artist messed it up.

As for the Geoff Johns backup: you know, the notion of Dean (and John, but especially Dean) actively trying to keep Sam in the dark about what happened to Mary (possibly/probably while John thought there was an end in sight) is very interesting to me. I keep having deeper thoughts on that, but it ties into the most recent aired episode, so I think it'll have to go elsewhere.

It's after the weekend following release. No need to whitefont.

I think Dean trying to protect Sam in that way is very in character. Which is probably why it was the thing I like most about the first comic.

I'm not gonna fanwank the station wagon--I suspect one of the upcoming issues will be about the acquisition of it. We don't have any canon support for the idea that the Winchesters owned the Impala all along, do we? So it could just be that John did own the station wagon, and when he decided to become a hunter, bought the Impala.

I mentioned the art to Ailleann in the comic shop. It doesn't convey the pretty. But I assumed the wagon was the Winchester family car. Makes sense with two kids. Loved how lost John was.

Yeah, I agree on the artwork. Do we know if they're planning on a rotating group of artists, or will it be the same folks for the whole run?

The wagon doesn't feel out of place to me. And it wouldn't surprise me if John left what was arguably Mary's car behind. (Or sold it for ammo.) He was also a mechanic, so acquiring a classic muscle car and restoring them to use them to hunt demons probably wouldn't be all that challenging.