And don't think I'm not mad at me for doing so.
kicks self
bruises
Yeah... That went well.
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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
§ ita § - Sep 13, 2003 7:19:19 pm PDT #1019 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Snacky - Sep 14, 2003 9:46:44 am PDT #1024 of 10000
Like I need a hole in my head
Re: 1602, like Victor, for a couple of pages in this issue, I was thinking Virginia Dare could be Gwen Stacy, but that was just the interaction w/Peter Parquagh. Besides the hair color, there's nothing Gwen-ish about her. The final panel convinced me she's Snowbird, despite the "nothing after 1969" bit.
She's either Snowbird, or someone completely new. She can't be Storm. It makes no sense for her to be Storm.
She'd better not be Storm.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 14, 2003 3:02:34 pm PDT #1025 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
Is it possible that Snowbird could be one of those Alpha Flight heroes that was inspired by a much earlier Canadian comic book character (as Vindicator owed much of his appearance to Captain Canuck), and thus got grandfathered in past the 1969 limit? In looking up Marvel's version of Nelvanna, I actually found reference to a 1940s Canadian comic book heroine by the same name.
Snacky - Sep 14, 2003 5:51:16 pm PDT #1026 of 10000
Like I need a hole in my head
Matt, I found this, which is a history of Snowbird, and there's no mention of that at all. After reading the history of the character, now I don't think Virginia is Snowbird, since Snowbird is so tied to Canada.
Volans - Sep 15, 2003 2:17:01 am PDT #1027 of 10000
move out and draw fire
What about the annotation's suggestion that Virginia is The Owl? I have never even heard of that character, so I can't say whether that theory holds more water than the one we're discussing here.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 15, 2003 2:19:31 am PDT #1028 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I feel there is a "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" joke lurking about here...