More or less Ita. I'm betting that this is the new kid's mind and body, merged with Ronnie Raymond's mind and Firestorm powers. Ronnie may, however, be dormant for awhile, but there's definitely a connection between them because, well, check out the outfits.
Man, you just get darker and darker, and the weird thing is, your aura? Beige.
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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
victor infante - Jul 14, 2004 11:19:18 am PDT #4831 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 14, 2004 11:47:57 am PDT #4832 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Was he the one who could, uh, do anything? Even more powerful than Superman?
In one of my (otherwise) favorite pre-Crisis JLA/JSA team-ups, Firestorm was the one who took down Darkseid by making a curved funnel out of thin air that redirected his own Omega beams back at him.
Glamcookie - Jul 14, 2004 12:18:57 pm PDT #4833 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
Another shout out for The Pulse. Awesome!
§ ita § - Jul 14, 2004 12:35:36 pm PDT #4834 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nice week, so far. IC -- excellent. Ultimate X-Men -- excellent. Teen Titans -- not half bad. I do feel kinda vaguely skeeved, so I guess it's time for Nightwing.
Polter-Cow - Jul 14, 2004 12:44:10 pm PDT #4835 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jesus fuck, people, you didn't tell me there were new 100 Bullets and Fables in addition to everything else! I had a lot to read.
The Pulse was good. I think Bendis is drawing from a lot of his Ultimate Spidey continuity, which I missed, but luckily, I could catch his Daredevil continuity. It's weird cause I can never keep track of who knows what secret identities. Cause, well, we know all of them.
Nightwing wasn't as good as the last one. The best bits were Amy's protecting Dick with red tape. And I think some of you are going to have a fit over the whole marriage thing.
100 Bullets was a bit hard to follow, since I don't remember where we last left off with Wylie (though I do have the Six Feet trade; I should check). But mmm, things are heating up.
Fables has a revelation I'm going to have to Google to truly appreciate, and a cliffhanger that makes you go, "Wha? Did he just do--cliffhangers are supposed to be in big splash pages, fool!"
And finally, Identity Crisis. Now I feel like I am paying the price for not knowing the DCverse so well. I'm just taking it all on faith. But what was I supposed to get out of that scene in the satellite with all the supervillains? Was that the hiring of Deathstroke? Who was talking? Dr. Light? And Meltzer pulls out a nice cliffhanger to make me want issue 3 right now.
§ ita § - Jul 14, 2004 12:48:34 pm PDT #4836 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
P-C, it wasn't Dr. Light talking, because the narration takes place before he stumbles in. I think annotation on that scene will be interesting, but not vital. Deathstroke's the most interesting of the villains, and I think you'll find out what you need to know in due course. As basic background, he's a highly-skilled, highly-paid assassin without depth perception -- he goes way back with the Teen Titans -- one of his kids was a member, and he recently tried to kill them again. He has extra strength and super-reflexes due to serum tests from illicit medical testing.
P.M. Marc - Jul 14, 2004 1:51:27 pm PDT #4837 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
Looking at October's previews and... WHY THE HELL ARE THEY LETTING WILLINGHAM TOUCH BATMAN???
Ahem.
Just had to get that out.
victor infante - Jul 14, 2004 2:07:06 pm PDT #4838 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Quick IC note: The narrator on the villains' sattelite is Merlyn the Archer, an old Green Arrow foe.
§ ita § - Jul 14, 2004 4:03:21 pm PDT #4839 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you think that will have meaning later, Victor?
I just got the text on the front cover of Nightwing. I don't usually pay attention to the cover art until after I read ...
Do all the Ultimate titles do like X-Men and not show scenes, just character poses on the covers? They're very pretty. But the X-Men art is very pretty inside too, this month especially.
I realise I can't forgive the art because I need the art to support the mood of the words. Even when I skim a comic page, and lose narrative because I'm moving too fast (text or image narrative), I need the mood to work for me. The mood in UX is palpable -- when Angel faces Sinister, or when Rogue gets a bead on Sinister, I look at the picture first, get an impression, read the text, and then look at the picture again, as best I can break it down. If the get-impression stage is broken by clumsy articulation or mucky colouring, it's probably too late for me.
Steph L. - Jul 14, 2004 4:39:23 pm PDT #4840 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The Nightwing cover cracked me up. The story -- well, I felt like it was just filling time until the crossover starts.
Teen Titans #13 just fucking ruled. Shrift totally could have written the part where Kon goes to Gotham looking for Tim and is all pissed when he encounters Steph-as-Robin. It made me squee a little. I totally loved Raven getting a tattoo. I have no idea why that particular part of the issue grabbed me. But it did.
IC #2 -- verrrry intriguing. I read it, then re-read #1, and then read #2 again. And I still have no idea what's coming.