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?
Is Driver 8 about death or the losing your woman?
I think there's some death.
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.
Anyone else here as obsessed as I'm getting?
Was, once upon a time. SO VERY GOOD.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It even had a cool theme song.
I've got it on this collection (which is the only place I've found The Tick [animated] theme). The Knight Rider theme is kind of cool too. Also (Betsy alert) the Max Headroom theme is on this.