Not to mention the guy whose superpower is spinning really fast. Or the guy whose superpower is that he has a boomerang.

Okay, just poppin' in to say...

MY WIFE IS THE BESTEST WIFE IN THE WHOLE FRIGGIN' UNIVERSE!!

Why, you ask?

Because I am now the owner of Miracleman 1-16 in the individual issues and 17-22 in TPB form. My wife, Empress of Empresses, filled in the missing issues 11-14 for me today.

My wife? Bestest. In. The. Friggin'. Universe.

Accept no substitutes.

All hail The Empress.

I have Greg Rucka's novel A Fistful of Rain I think it's that one. Mom gave me a bunch of books she just finished, she liked Rucka's novel the best.

Dude, his main antagonist is a SUPER-EVIL GORILLA. That sets the weird bar pretty damn high to begin with.

Flash really has the most colorful Rogue's Gallery. Always been a big part of the character's allure. Batman and Superman aside, most of the rest of the DC Universe never developed such an array of villains. There was always a sort of giddy joy in a Captain Cold or Weather Wizard when they appeared.

My wife, Empress of Empresses, filled in the missing issues 11-14 for me today.

After you have them bronzed, can I read them?

I liked the buzz about John C. Reilly as the Thing. Chiklis is good, don't get me wrong, but something about JCR...

"Of Like Minds" was part of the package I received yesterday. . . okay, I cannot believe that the Josh thing has been going on for so long!!!

Also, love the birthday card that Babs has from Dinah: "Happy Birthday You Old Bat".

Hee.

mearaing...

On a different note, did anybody pick up the Ex Machina or Challengers of the Unknown debuts last week?

You knew there was no possible way I'd be able to pass Ex Machina up, right? I liked it. He's got a nifty power. OTOH, I didn't like Challengers very much at all. I mean really, the bad guy is Fox News ? It's a shame, because the original Challengers was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. The original team is currently in DC's New Frontiers book, which has been fun. Has anyone else been reading it? It's sort of DC's answer to Marvel's Ultimate series.

On Astounishing, Lockheed, by all accounts, should be lame. But he's so. Damned. Cool.

Okay, Lockheed is not lame. He's cooler than cool. Always has been. You'd rather have Streaky the Supercat ?

As for Astonishing, apparently Mr. Better-not-read-my-mind-you-can't-handle- what-you'll-find-there was right; if Emma had scanned him, she'd have been paralyzed by his overwhelming fear of fire. Surely there's no way dude could have been sure that it would be the X-Men Espionage Squad that would show up and not a team with, say, Chamber, Storm, or Rachel Summers?

Maybe the he's a green Martian .

I can't figure out how to make the "no, Batman is an urban legend! Honest!" line of secret-identity defense, seen in many recent titles, make sense with the Batsignal, even given Gotham Central's excellent attempt to work it out. Some things you clearly have to let go of.

I was wondering about that, too. All the "nudge, nudge, wink, wink," doesn't make a lot of sense.

Not to mention the guy whose superpower is spinning really fast. Or the guy whose superpower is that he has a boomerang.

As opposed to the guys who throw Batarangs? Or shoot trick arrows. IJS.

Flash really has the most colorful Rogue's Gallery. Always been a big part of the character's allure. Batman and Superman aside, most of the rest of the DC Universe never developed such an array of villains. There was always a sort of giddy joy in a Captain Cold or Weather Wizard when they appeared.

Yup. He always had the best villains.

Wait, seriously, what's up with the extra 'u'? Is this a British thing? A typo we've picked up? Why aren't we calling it Astonishing? I'm so confused.

It started here:

Jeff Mejia "The Jossverse in Other Media" Feb 18, 2004 11:04:47 am PST

I just reread Quiver. The first time around, I started at issue 6 (because that's what was out when Fray #1 came out), and things didn't make a whole lot of sense. Also, I hadn't yet read Sandman at the time, so I completely missed the references to that. Now that I've downloaded the whole run, and understand *all* the references, I like it a lot better. I also very much liked that Mia had no problem recognizing that Ollie was GA. Heh.

I just finished tpb's 4 and 5 of Transmet. Still don't know what I think of it, but it's starting to come together for me. I think the actual moral of the story may be close to "Being a Bastard Works!"

My continuing complaint is that Channon and Yelena are kind of in a limbo place...on the one hand, they seem like supporting characters, with enough screen time and stories to be valid characters. On the other hand, the writing makes them not characters in their own right but caricatures of a male POV of women.

However, it's gotta be a first that I could even think literary criticism like that about a comic book.

Also noted that Patrick Stewart wrote the intro to tpb #5, and used the phrase "laughed like a drain" which I thought was a Buffista thing. Is it a Brit thing?

Also noted that Patrick Stewart wrote the intro to tpb #5, and used the phrase "laughed like a drain" which I thought was a Buffista thing. Is it a Brit thing?

We got it from Fay, so I think it's a Brit thing. Maybe it's just a Fay and Patrick Stewart thing, though, which would be even cooler.