Sumi, I totally disremember that. Well, I don't remember it one way or the other. It was just that Buffy saying "Cinnamon" was so obviously meant to point to something, and not just be random WhedonBuffyspeak.

I really need to go back and reread the earlier issues. There seems to be a lot in this issue that harks back, especially to fragments of Buffy's dreamscape. When Willow-in-Buffy showed Amy her mother, I thought I remembered someone pointing Mrs. Madison and/or the little stautette that was her prison out at the time.

But, damn, there's always so much in every issue. Even if I read as slowly as possible, I have to go back and read it again after I come in here and see how much I missed.

Also, the letters column gets some whackos, big time.

Whackos. Word. Seriously, who spends that much time and angst on something they don't care for?

I haven't yet managed to get my hands on Buffy#4, but I'm very looking forward to it. I have however been reading Fables and Powers for the first time.

Fables I'm a bit meh about. I just don't see what all the fuss is about, though Boy loves it.

Powers, though, may be my favourite thing ever of all time ever. Deena Pilgrim and Christian Walker, Crime Fighting Team Extraordinare! Oh yes, me likey. And seeing as how I'm really getting into The Boys, I think maybe I just have a thing for superhero cops.

Jars, are you reading Fables from the beginning or have you just picked up current issues? I like the way it takes so many well-known fairy tales and subverts the hell out of them, but it takes a while to develop it.

I'm reading the TPBs. I started at the beginning and am on... I dunno, seven or eight books in, anyway. I think my biggest problem is the dialogue. I think the plot is great, but the characters and dialogue aren't up to supporting it. That's not to say I think it's bad. It's better than an awful lot of stuff out there.

Yeah, that far in you should have a pretty good idea of all that. I'm sorry it's not as enthralling for you as it is for me, but fortunately there are mucho more comics out there to suit every taste. I admire your sticktoitiveness with Fables, when it's not your OTC.

Considering how popular it is, I think it must just be my taste that's wonky. But yeah, I'm not short of reading material at the moment. Living in the middle of nowhere really gives you the time to catch up n stuff that people have been telling you to read for years.

Fables I'm a bit meh about. I just don't see what all the fuss is about

FWIW, I felt the same way. I only bothered to read the first TPB, but the writing style was just too clunky to make me want to read any more. (The premise was interesting, but not different enough from the same elements in Sandman and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen* that I felt compelled to stick with it just in case the writing got better.)

(*And Lost Girls, of course, once that came along.)

Fables is one of those things that sounds good in premise form, but I feel enough personal antipathy toward Bill Willingham that I wouldn't be able to enjoy it if he wrote as well as Moore or Gaiman. And he's certainly no Moore or Gaiman.