About Ultimate X-Men -- familiar mutants have been popping up around. Obvious in this issue was Rahne, but might that have been Puck with her? Was Puck a mutant? And I really think that Gambit's hair looks like crap curly.

Did you get Detective Comics?

If by "get" you mean "read," yes. Thanks for the info. And askye, it's definitely part of War Games. And ita, I agree about the hair.

I got Y #25, UltFF #9, 12 Cent Adventure, the new Ult. Spidey and Astounishing. Which is odd, because I'm far more obsessed with DC than with Marvel, and yet my purchasing habits do not reflect this. Maybe it's because I usually catch up on DC by spending half a day at Barnes & Noble, reading their trades.

ita, my sister in the Gambit hair hate. I, uh, actually shrieked out loud when I got to that page.

P-C, I've been reading almost all of the Bat titles, and the only person on the scene I don't immediately recognize is the chick in white with the uzi, possibly because I'm having a brain fart. As for what's happening with the Robin title, the Identity Crisis issues seem to indicate that Tim will be back in the suit eventually. As he damn well should be. I've only begun to pick up Detective Comics, so Plei might be better to ask about Orpheus, but he's a vigilante that Batman hand-picked to take over his neighborhood's street gang, and they have a new 'no guns, no drugs' rule.

I finally caved and bought the last six issues of Ultimate Spider-Man. We'll see if it sticks. Curse you, wee Bendis!

What is Ultimate Nightmare about?

Dubya getting a second term?

Tim knew that Spoiler was Stephanie, but he got upset at Batman for deciding to tell Stephanie he was Tim Drake; he thought it should be his decision to make.

BoP: Paraplegics can't sit up like that. Also, trying to figure out how the timeline intersects with the other Bat titles makes my head hurt -- I think BoP must be happening after the others, not before or simultaneously with.

I loved Dinah's riff on Superman. "He's Superman. I blush when I have prurient *thoughts* around him. Which is often."

Shrift, Ultimate Spidey is Teh Shit. Particularly the last 4 issues.

The 12-Cent Adventure was expositionalicious

It was, but I thought it was done more or less in a non-anvillicious way. Except for all the attention paid to Jason Todd. For someone who's been long dead, he got a lot of ink.

I just picked up Astounishing today, and I'm really liking this whole run so far (and this is the first X title I've ever read, though I don't knowif that's good, bad, or neutral).

Apparently, Dinah reads the same fic I do....

It was, but I thought it was done more or less in a non-anvillicious way.

Oh, definitely. It was a very organic thought process. Slick work, Grayson. And as far as Jason, from what I could tell from flipping through recent Bats issues, he's been getting a lot of ink, so there could be something relevant happening during "War Games."

ALA Barbara Gordon poster