On Virginia Dare, I never saw an intentional storm connection, except maybe the hair. For a moment in 1602 No. 2, I was thinking Gwen Stacy, but that seemed odd. Snowbird works, for any reason except artificially imposed meta ones. One of my favorite possibilities is that Snowbird is mystically bound to the land--ostensibly Canada, but I can accept a fudge-- so if it is her, her seperation from the North American Continent should start threatening her life. It makes her, like, Capt. America, a perfect herald from the New World, but serves to complicate her story. Also, I'm an old Alpha Flight fan, so I'm definitely rooting...
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
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victor infante - Sep 13, 2003 4:54:23 pm PDT #1014 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Anne W. - Sep 13, 2003 5:01:39 pm PDT #1015 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
ita, when Dr. Strange had his vision about the cause of the strange weather plaguing England, he had a vision of Virginia. In #2, the Queen mentions that Virginia brought good weather with her. Yeah, it's pretty minor, but it's there.
esse - Sep 13, 2003 6:39:08 pm PDT #1016 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I'm learning sooooo much about this comic universe, man. I feel so edjumacated.
§ ita § - Sep 13, 2003 7:02:02 pm PDT #1017 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. I will be so mad if they whitefy Storm.
Noumenon - Sep 13, 2003 7:06:57 pm PDT #1018 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Why? You just did .
(edited to add visible period)
§ ita § - Sep 13, 2003 7:19:19 pm PDT #1019 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And don't think I'm not mad at me for doing so.
kicks self
bruises
Noumenon - Sep 13, 2003 8:37:06 pm PDT #1020 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
The other part of Jane Espenson's Jonathan comic is up at the BBC. Is that all?
Gandalfe - Sep 14, 2003 3:10:50 am PDT #1021 of 10000
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
OK, it appears that Salt Lake now only has 2 comic shops. THis is a city of over a million people (well, in the metro area) and only 2 places to buy 1602? This is just wrong.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 14, 2003 8:19:14 am PDT #1022 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Okay, now I'm envisioning what a Mormon-specific comic book shop's stock would be like.
Remember that Snowbird's mother was Nelvanna, the Inuit goddess of the Northern Lights. Might have something to do with clearing the skies of bad weather.
Kalshane - Sep 14, 2003 8:25:06 am PDT #1023 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I tore through all of Fray and both issues of 1602 Friday night. I haven't purchased comics in probably 10 years and I'd forgotten how short they are.
That said, they were both great. I'm glad to hear Joss is planning on doing more Fray and the letters in issue 8 were hilarious. I was unfortunately spoiled for the car thing and the betrayal, so I think they both lost a lot of impact (though I still laughed at Fray's reaction to the car thing.) Really glad I wasn't spoiled for the Big Bad reveal and I thought the whole thing was an interesting spin on the Slayer mythos. Favorite little moment would be Urkonn and Loo's introduction. The art really sells it.:)
As for 1602, I'm glad that even though I haven't really kept up with the Marvel Universe, I'm only confused about the same characters everybody else is.:) I'm disappointed that it's only going to be 8 issues.