I thought this might amuse people.

Falco123: I wondered if emo kids would like Spiderman 2
Falco123: And then I thought, "Yeah."
Spectral Bovine: Spidey is the emo superhero.
Spectral Bovine: He's a superhemo.

That's not fair! He isn't vegan. Or straightedge. Or insufferably superior about either.

Also, he has a good haircut, and I have yet to see him try to out-scene anyone.

There have only been two Batgirls--Barbara Gordon and Cassandra.

Three, as Tep said.

The Joker beat Jason Todd to death with a crowbar because the fans told him to.

Well, beat him nearly to death THEN blew him up. If you want to be picky about it.

That's Judd Winick, isn't it?

Yep.

Anyway, I picked up Switched, a Joker-centric TBP that just nearly drove me crazy with love. Anybody else read it?

Yep! Switch is Devin Grayson, so naturally, I picked it up at some point. I dig, though I don't think it's her best work on a short. (The Arsenal mini wins for that.)

Holli! You were in my dream last night, in some odd comics-related situation. It's hard to describe, but basically, in the dream I was hanging out at this house where a group of guys from the Freak-Ass Church all lived together, and I had a stack of comics next to me.

Someone walked by and grabbed a comic, and I threatened his life if he didn't return it. So he returned it. Then I pointed out to everyone all the different ways in which the cover of NW 93 is so cool.

So then Holli (I don't know if you were there all along or just suddenly appeared; my dreams are very weird) said something about how reading comics improves your ability to fanwank implausible stories, and I agreed, challenging the guys with "Go ahead -- give me any whack-ass storyline, and I'll wank it."

My mind is a funhouse that's been turned into a crack den.

I don't know if it's scary or reassuring that I am this comics-obsessed even in *other people's heads*. Goodness.

I am flattered, though; I don't think I've turned up in a Buffista dream before!

I think I disturbed my PT (and it takes a lot) by explaining my psych-profile troika of Superman, Batman, and Spiderman.

As much as I love the trinity, I'm a Wolverine girl anyway. I am startled, however, at how many people are "Spidey fan[s] from way back". Maybe it's just because that's the movie that's out, but they seem to be picking him over the others pretty consistently.

Nah, it's because Spidey ROOOOLZZZZ!!!1!

Though *I'm* going to marry him. Everyone else can keep their paws off, including that tramp Mary Jane.

I just feel the need here to beat a dead horse by pointing out that the whitefonted discussion of the latest Batman above? Was a critical reading of a text.

Also, I have not had Buffista dreams, but I did have an anxiety dream about yoga the other night, which woke me up full of adrenalin and a sense of irony. And I missed Free Comics Day.

Those two last points are not related.

You can have his scrawny ass, Steph. I'm off to bear Wolvie's children. Nummy hairy treat that he is.

I just feel the need here to beat a dead horse by pointing out that the whitefonted discussion of the latest Batman above? Was a critical reading of a text.

I'm not sure I get it -- people (those very people) do that in here all the time, and I think they know it.

I am startled, however, at how many people are "Spidey fan[s] from way back".

Hey, I loved Spidey as a kid and dressed up as him all the time. (My sister would dress up like Wonder Woman. This lead me to laugh my ass off when Jack Black and SMG did the Spidey and Wonder Woman bit on the MTV movie awards a few years back.) I never read the comics, but I used to watch "Spiderman and His Amazing Friends" every Saturday morning and when we first got a VCR I convinced my parents to rent every single episode of the 70's cartoon they had at the video store. So I may not be a hardcore fan, but I can honestly claim the "from way back."