Plus I was tryign to get out of there before I spent more than $5.
Boo, hiss!!!
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
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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.
CaBil - May 28, 2004 5:41:52 pm PDT #3251 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
askye - May 28, 2004 6:01:22 pm PDT #3252 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I already spent $30 on Tuesday at a different shop! And I think there are some new issues I haven't bought yet (I have to check). Plus I think there are some current issues I don't have yet (I have to look) and, of course, more back issues to buy.
Not to mention all the tempting tpbs.
Polter-Cow - May 29, 2004 4:34:22 am PDT #3253 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The art in Secret War reminds me of the cutscenes in Max Payne.
Tom Scola - May 29, 2004 4:38:12 am PDT #3254 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The Duck Dodgers / Green Lantern episode is on Cartoon Network this morning at 11:30am Eastern.
Also, the Justice League season finale is finally being shown this evening at 7:30pm Eastern.
Steph L. - May 29, 2004 5:10:08 am PDT #3255 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The Duck Dodgers / Green Lantern episode is on Cartoon Network this morning at 11:30am Eastern.
Right in the middle of my appointment with my therapist. Bah.
§ ita § - May 29, 2004 5:25:09 am PDT #3256 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the Justice League season finale is finally being shown this evening at 7:30pm Eastern
What the hell is up with their scheduling? Boggles.
I did hear advance word on it to the tune of "answers a lot of questions." I didn't know there were questions. My curiosity is double-piqued.
§ ita § - May 29, 2004 6:19:04 am PDT #3257 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've been bouncing through the huge Elseworlds download. It makes me realise that I'm mostly art's bitch -- there's art bad enough that I won't stay long enough to see if the story's good -- Scott Lee's work on New Titans Annual #10 was clunky enough I didn't stay long enough to see if the bombastic language had a payoff. Kiki Chansamone on JLI was just hideous. But I also hated Kelley Jones's work on the Bloodstorm series ... but the idea was made clear early enough that I stayed on, and I'm glad I did.
However, the ones that make my eyes cheer -- Dave Johnson on Superman: Red Son (and incidentally I loved the story too), Howard Chaykin on Batman: Dark Allegiances -- these I'm considering buying in hard copy.
It's like a double refresher on characters (damn, JLI was dumb as well as forgettable) and writers and artists.
Fun.
DXMachina - May 29, 2004 6:21:23 am PDT #3258 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It makes me realise that I'm mostly art's bitch -- there's art bad enough that I won't stay long enough to see if the story's good
I am very much the same way. Nothing takes me out of a story faster than art that I don't like.
§ ita § - May 29, 2004 6:54:10 am PDT #3259 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's a distance I can make from art I don't like, but some art I have to grade as crap.
It took me a while to love Sienkiewicz, for instance. He used to be not my thing.
It's the difference between ignoring rules, and not getting them. I'm stunned by some of the art that gets published that's I figure has to be universally reviled.
Michele T. - May 29, 2004 7:15:37 am PDT #3260 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Superman: Red Son is still easily available in stores, and I'd highly recommend it.
As to the art, I like it a bit more stylized than I think most people on this thread do, but I'm definitely more interested in how the words and art work together than in one or the other in comics.