Beast's costume is dumb.

Jean died as part of something I failed to understand, since it happened in the pages of Grant Morrison and I hated his run. I think she dies to save the world from evil Beast. She rights a timeline, or something, which is how Scott and Emma end up together with her implicit blessing, after they were having a psychic affair.

I hate the leonine Beast. I liked the previous blue furry incarnation better.

eta: PMM, that explains so much.

ita, doesn't it just?

Back to AXM in delayed Kashi: I'm a little disappointed in Cassaday's art in this one. There's not the sense of movement that I know he can do (and I'm reading Planetary right now--much motion). It's all very still and wax museum.

I talked about writing up my "before" and "after" list of trades & graphic novels, and I finally did.

Now I crawl into bed with more comics.

Hello comics Buffistas! I've been enjoying reading the discussion of Batfamily books, and now delurk here to say that during Morrison's run, Magneto, thought to be dead, was concealed in the Mansion posing as Xorn, a teacher. While this was going on, Cyclops & Emma Frost had a psychic affair & Jean found out. Scott went running off to do various boring things with Wolverine. Back at the Mansion, someone shot Emma in diamond form & shattered her into many bits, & Jean healed her with the Phoenix Force. Then Magneto revealed himself & killed lots of people in New York. The X-Men survive his attempts to kill them off, confront him, & Magneto kills Jean with a huge electromagnetic pulse. (Don't know why this worked better than sending her into the sun did, but hey ...) Then Wolverine beheaded Magneto. There was then a mini-arc set in the future, in which evil Beast torments the world & a re-awakened Jean looks back and realizes that Scott's decision to turn away from Emma because of his grief set all sorts of horrible things in motion, so she reaches back & nudges Scott toward Emma.

If that was horribly incoherent & babbly, sorry. I couldn't find a link just now that explained it better, though I know I've seen some in the past.

As for Astonishing, I agree with Kalshane on the costumes - bleah. The faces look odd & inconsistent to me, but on re-reading I decided they were very expressive. Story-wise, it seemed to be off to a promising start. Emma's comment was probably my favorite part. Funny & angsty - yay!

amych, you could give Second Foundation a call and see if they've got any left. Maybe amyth or smonster or myself could run by and grab one for you.

As for Astonishing, I agree with Kalshane on the costumes - bleah

Aww. They made me happy with their retroness.

amych, you could give Second Foundation a call and see if they've got any left.

What? Call a different store rather than waiting 'til next week? But that would be initiative or something.

Yeah, you could just wait, if the store is sure they're getting them. I had too many times (like, one) where I couldn't get the book I wanted.

I loved Emma's face throughout AXM.