Read
Astonishing.
It was good, and Joss is quite obviously a Kitty Pryde fan. Loved Beast's suggestion
that Scott and Logan fight on the lawn again, possibly for a beer.
Regarding the end:
is that in-character for Beast? I always got the impression he felt being blue and furry was worth it for the ability to fight evil, though obviously there might be some sort of resentment. I just wonder if the feeling has come up before in canon.
The comic book store guy is a fan, and a customer who came in said the first issue was better than he'd thought it would be. So it seems to be pretty well received, which is nice for Joss.
Is there a website that lists all the issues of any particular title?
Lots of them.
[link] does it for most of DCU.
You Marvel people are on your own, though. Only site for your stuff I went to was the old Spider-Woman site, and it's long gone.
It is in character for what I've read recently.
Beast has had to battle the outside beast for a while (there was a point at which if he used his super strength it made him more animal-like and dumb, but he had to to save something). In Ultimate he was outright self-hating and hostile about it.
I think it's been a bit more subtle in the main continuity.
Thanks Plei. I'll dig for a Marvel site also, but that will help a bunch.
I've hooked at least two more people on Astounishing, based on the quality of writing.
Just read AXM #2. Good stuff. #1 suffered very much from having to set things up, IMO. I enjoyed #2 a great deal more.
Stupid Raining-on-new-comics-day. What with the raining, I had to hang around the store until it let up a bit. And what with it being a really slow new titles day, I had to flip through a bunch of other stuff and pick up 6 out of the 9 issues of
Batman: Death and the Maidens.
Stupid Greg Rucka, being a fucking brilliant writer and making me buy stuff I didn't plan on.
In other news: Picked up Astounishing 2. I do
love Joss's Kitty, but the whole thing still feels up and down to me --
maybe
it's just the fact that I have, basically, no preexisting investment in the Marvelverse, but I was about ready to put it down for several pages before the Kitty/Emma smackdown.
Even so,
Kitty (as mentioned) and Beast (BIG BLUE BRAINY FURRY WOOBIE!) are killing me.
Others: looked through Robin 128(?) and Teen Titans 12 in the store. I
still can't bring myself to buy the current Robin run.
As for
Titans, I was mostly *deeply* confused -- I feel like I know who the characters are, but I don't have the background in the post-YJ story to have half a clue about what's going on with the current arc and Raven and all that.
So, still resistant to those crazy kids.
Wolverine was hot, especially that shot from behind where he says he won't do anything
not involving beer.
But not as hot as he is in Ultimate.
Batman was also hot. So far, Psimon is more attractive than ever before (which is more attractive than zero).
Haven't gotten to the end of last week's Outsiders yet, nor started Titans.
Amych, I can hook you up with DatM soft.
Oh, amy, I loved the
Kitty/Emma smackdown. Very cool dynamic going on there.
