The first Azzarrello issue has a freaking awesome last page, which gave me hope, but then it was all blah blah detective work.
Easy Bake. Flop-a-palooza. Woosh. Pop. I don't skulk.
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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 6:39:16 pm PDT #2434 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Atropa - May 07, 2004 1:42:17 pm PDT #2440 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, and Victor? You're a grandsire again.
Pete is also now cursing Victor and Plei, as he's halfway through that Outsiders TP. He said he had to stop at the President Luthor thing, and that he's sure it's part of DC canon, but he just felt he should stop there for a bit.
amych - May 07, 2004 1:42:58 pm PDT #2441 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
he's sure it's part of DC canon, but he just felt he should stop there for a bit.
It is, and I don't blame him.
§ ita § - May 07, 2004 1:43:38 pm PDT #2442 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, that's too damned funny.
Curse, Pete, curse!
P.M. Marc - May 07, 2004 1:57:54 pm PDT #2443 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
BWAHAHAHA!!!
Ahem.
I would attempt to not laugh, but laughing is fun. Esp. at Pete.