I give thanks every week that I'm not really into any of the Marvel titles.

Me, too. Only then I remember about Ultimate Spidey and Fantastic Four. And The Pulse. And then I say "Damn you, Bendis! Damn yoooou!"

I may check out Bendis, then, but I'm actually a bit relieved that I'm not crazy-insane over Daredevil.

To be honest, I'm not overly excited about Daredevil nowadays. I keep reading it cause I do, and it was one of my first, but I feel like it's gotten too psychological for me to really appreciate it, and I've never been a huge fan of Maleev's art. Pulse is good stuff, though.

Also, money.

Well, yeah. But these days I seem to have more money than time, which is... weird, but I'm not complaining.

I give thanks every week that I'm not really into any of the Marvel titles.

I'm not obsessed with Ultimate X-Men, but I'm enjoying it. And I've been thinking about picking up Ultimate Fantastic Four.

Frickin' crack.

Shrift, start with #7. Warren Ellis takes over the title then...

Shrift, start with #7. Warren Ellis takes over the title then...

Aw, hell. It's like I'm at a giant house party and you just passed me the water bong.

Yes but for some very visceral reason I can't explain, I doubt Emma's goodness much more than I would ever doubt Magneto. I guess because I think of Magneto as broken-and-thus-evil, and Emma as just-a-big-bitch. Kitty love blinding me again.

Kiba, I think it very much depends on who is writing Emma. For me, with some writers I can buy Emma as a reformed bitch, who means well for the most part (Morrison, I think, wrote her this way), but with others (Claremont, I'm looking at you), I feel like she's just biding her time, waiting to put a big ol' whammy on everyone.

We'll see what Joss does with Emma, but since Kitty's in the book, I figure I'll be looking at her through Kitty's eyes.

We'll see what Joss does with Emma, but since Kitty's in the book, I figure I'll be looking at her through Kitty's eyes.

This, and I am now since reading Wizard and knowing Chris Claremont wanted Joss going to be all "Aha, Chris Claremont's Emma is the one we're seeing here."

Plus? Currently reading X-Men from 1985, where Emma does things like surprise Kitty in the back of an airplane, which I tend not to think of as "nice."

...I did feel sympathy for Emma though, when she was talking about how [ she still can't compete with Jean Grey, despite being way hot, very smart, and very much not dead. ]

I did feel sympathy for Emma though

I didn't feel sympathy for her, but I appreciated the wording of the sentiment.

I feel not much sympathy for anyone that wants to get into Cyke's pants. I give Jean a break because he was tempted by Wolverine, though.

I've been reading through all the classic X-Men comics on my computer. I'm up to 1981. (Dear God, Kitty's self-designed costume is hideous. Granted, it's meant to be, but yeesh. And Dazzler just hurts my brain, and not in a good way.) The early years were really, really painful. In fact, I skimmed through a lot of the issues and found a site that had summaries. Even now, there's a cheese-factor to a lot of the storylines I have to ignore, but overall I'm enjoying them. Liked the Pheonix and Dark Pheonix storylines. Was somewhat surprised to find out that Wolverine hasn't really been made that much darker over the years. He started off as a blood-thirsty, smoking, short-tempered, scoundrel.

But it's definitely interesting actually reading all the stuff I pretty much knew second-hand from the cartoons, friends, and the occasional comic. Of course, a lot of my time is spent waiting for the ret-cons to crop up as I run into things that contradict the X-verse as it is now.