I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

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§ ita § - Jul 08, 2004 5:16:54 pm PDT #4690 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hank and Storm were indeed dating. He died a couple issues ago, in a battle against a Sentinel. She took it badly, though I think they'd been broken up at the time (at his instigation -- he didn't feel he deserved a hottie like her). 'Berto was a New Mutant in the normal continuity -- rich kid from South America.

Everyone is pretty young -- I'm not sure what that does to Wolverine, who was always much older than all of them.


askye - Jul 08, 2004 5:26:38 pm PDT #4691 of 10000
Thrive to spite them

Okay that clears up somethings. Plus I was confusing Roberto with Rictor. Why I have no idea because they are totally different characters.


Kalshane - Jul 08, 2004 5:50:40 pm PDT #4692 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Askye-

I'm pretty sure Roberto is Sunspot (gets super strength and durability from absorbing sunlight).

Also, you can summaries of the various issues of UXM at [link]


§ ita § - Jul 08, 2004 5:52:47 pm PDT #4693 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yes he is -- I'm sorry, I meant to type his name and forgot.

Who poked out Nick Fury's eye? Same person in the Ultimate universe?


Michele T. - Jul 08, 2004 7:24:36 pm PDT #4694 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I'm not actually a fan of Winick as a superhero writer, but this blog entry by someone who is much more of a Winick superhero non-fan than I am but who really liked Barry Ween makes me want to read it:

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P.M. Marc - Jul 08, 2004 8:08:49 pm PDT #4695 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

Barry Ween is well done. The reality that slip through the funny (and it's hilarious, in the best of all potty-mouthed possible ways) is handled with a deft touch, and without being a superhero book, it still manages to hit a lot of the core dilemmas that superheros face.

The blog entry does make me curious how much of Winick's superhero stuff the blogger has read, because his Green Lantern is not really much like his work on Outsiders (I'd say the same about his Arrow work, but there's less of it to go by than there is Green Lantern). It's far less quippy, and spends a lot more time on the why behind the reactions.

He's the only writer who's managed a Kyle with actual serious emotional heft.

Oh, and he writes a good Roy.


Glamcookie - Jul 09, 2004 7:43:24 pm PDT #4696 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Re: Powers. Oh my God, they killed Kutter! You bastards! No more "Nice chin pubes, Kutter" from Deena. That line always cracked my shit up. Also, I think that is a new Retro Girl at the end there. My GF thinks it's going to be that little girl, Calista, from waaaaaay back. Possibly from the real #1. I think that'd be cool.


Polter-Cow - Jul 09, 2004 8:35:24 pm PDT #4697 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Gloom, my pusher has that same theory, and having seen the next cover, he does believe he's right.


CaBil - Jul 09, 2004 8:39:20 pm PDT #4698 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.

Hrm, I always thought was the implication from that story arc...


Tom Scola - Jul 10, 2004 2:24:30 pm PDT #4699 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Has anyone got the Batman: TAS DVDs yet?