Picked up Bats 626 today. We shall see how this goes.
Plei, how did you like the Azzarrello stint? I read the first couple issues since I'm a 100 Bullets fan, but I got bored with it and stopped.
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
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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.
Polter-Cow - May 06, 2004 6:22:36 pm PDT #2430 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P.M. Marc - May 06, 2004 6:28:17 pm PDT #2431 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I, err, haven't bothered reading them yet.
Shocking, I know.
Polter-Cow - May 06, 2004 6:31:27 pm PDT #2432 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I thought you were a reader, not a collector. Shame on you.
P.M. Marc - May 06, 2004 6:36:14 pm PDT #2433 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I am.
By "haven't bothered reading" I mean "didn't feel like buying when I had so much other crack, and may at some point pick up if they're in trade or I am bored," but that takes too long to say.
626 is an interesting start. It's Winick, and I like him a lot usually, but an opening for an arc is hard for me to judge.
Polter-Cow - May 06, 2004 6:39:16 pm PDT #2434 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The first Azzarrello issue has a freaking awesome last page, which gave me hope, but then it was all blah blah detective work.
Kiba Rika - May 06, 2004 6:58:22 pm PDT #2435 of 10000
I may have to seize the cat.
Today I read my Angel comics. I don't have that many, and I'm a little upset because I have 1, 2, and 4 (this is the original w/Golden writing, not the Joss set - of which I only have 1 & 2, though I thought I had all 4).
Every time I read a good comic it makes me want to write for them.
sumi - May 06, 2004 7:34:00 pm PDT #2436 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Thanks Plei -- I think I won't worry about "The Ties that Bind".
Atropa - May 06, 2004 7:34:17 pm PDT #2437 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, and Victor? You're a grandsire again.
shakes fist at Victor
Crack-pushers, the lot of you. Plei handed me the Outsiders TP on the ride home. On the upside, now I know who those people my friends have been writing fic about are.
P.M. Marc - May 06, 2004 8:08:14 pm PDT #2438 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
What Jilli doesn't mention is that I had the WHOLE RUN with me, so she's caught up, and can now understand what the fuck I'm burbling about.
I just Babs binged. Read the 1988 retirement storyline, Killing Joke, the BoP storyline where Spellbinder is making her see herself as Batgirl, and Batgirl Year One. All within about an hour or so. (Okay, I've read Batgirl Year One enough that I can skim it with ease, but I was pretty thorough with the others, even if Killing Joke is at the same skim level as Year One by now.)
It's fascinating to read how she was written (as a main character) in the late 80s compared to how she's written now. Same with the early post-Crisis Huntress run (where her origin story was still tied into child molestation) vs. the Huntress of Cry For Blood. Now I want to find essay after essay on gender issues and comics.
askye - May 07, 2004 3:59:19 am PDT #2439 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I spent money on comics that I could have spent elsewhere but I was in the store and they had what I as looking for. Although I still can't figure out the shelving system.
I got: Robin Year One and Batman: A Death in the Family (I think, I looked at several and I think that's what I ended up with). Plus I grabbed 30 and 31 of Batgirl...Green Arrow is in one.