Is Driver 8 about death or the losing your woman?
See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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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.
sumi - Jun 19, 2004 4:06:08 pm PDT #4020 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Mr. Broom - Jun 19, 2004 4:33:08 pm PDT #4021 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
A little X-Men rant about semi-current events. I saw a recent Uncanny X-Men TPB, and who the hell decided Paige and Warren should be a full-on couple now? I knew there was some love-triangulation with Chamber, but I never found out how that got resolved (though I see the end result, and I'm not effing happy with it). Anyone want to give me the skinny? I know they decided to write Chamber out of the team, and I'm curious as to how that played out. Curious and angry.
Also, I'm on the fourth Sandman TPB, and they're just getting better and better. Anyone else here as obsessed as I'm getting?
DavidS - Jun 19, 2004 4:48:34 pm PDT #4022 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is Driver 8 about death or the losing your woman?
I think there's some death.
Polter-Cow - Jun 19, 2004 6:46:17 pm PDT #4023 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Isn't that more of a meta-train-song, P-C?
Well...technically. The verses are about the train, though. The actual train, as opposed to losing women or death.
Gris - Jun 19, 2004 7:10:54 pm PDT #4024 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Anyone else here as obsessed as I'm getting?
Was, once upon a time. SO VERY GOOD.
Mr. Broom - Jun 19, 2004 9:01:23 pm PDT #4025 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I think I'm in love with the Endless. As, like, a concept. Though Delirium's kind of early-Winifred-Burkle cute and Death is, well, Death... "Season of Mists" is just jaw-droppingly well-written. I'd be afraid of it peaking here if I didn't know better. Gaiman's got more skill in his pinky than I'll ever have.
MechaKrelboyne - Jun 20, 2004 3:11:35 am PDT #4026 of 10000
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious
Sandman, start to finish, is so good it's frightening. Delerium is sort of inspired by/based on/something 'twixt the two Tori Amos, or so I've heard.
P.M. Marc - Jun 20, 2004 6:47:16 am PDT #4027 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
Sandman, start to finish, is so good it's frightening. Delerium is sort of inspired by/based on/something 'twixt the two Tori Amos, or so I've heard.
At some point during the run--not at the start of it, but after the two had met and become friends--aspects of Ms. Amos were written into the character, and the character's look.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 20, 2004 11:14:00 am PDT #4028 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And I have to disagree with the contention that there is only one train song in recorded history that isn't about death, losing your woman, or both
Southern Pacific by Neil Young is about being forced to retire, so I don't think that counts as death.
I think Night Train by James Brown is about sex, so only about the little death.
Polter-Cow - Jun 20, 2004 12:42:04 pm PDT #4029 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So I read, in one of those 10 Greatest X-Men Stories Ever Told things, the Dark Phoenix Saga and "Days of Future Past." They were very telling-not-showing back then, weren't they? Though I give major props to Claremont for using the word "comprise" correctly.
I was struck by how faithful the animated series was to canon. The team was a bit different, but the events were practically identical. Hell, even some of the dialogue sounded familiar.
"Days of Future Past," though, was nothing like I remembered from the animated series. In the animated series, Bishop comes from the future to identify one of the X-Men as a traitor. Is that another story in the canon?
They had some very compelling battle sequences back then, though. Both the fight for Jean's life and the X-Men vs. the Brotherhood fights were exciting even in print.
I really miss the animated series. It even had a cool theme song.