So, if I see the "alternate" cover at the comic store tonight, I should get it?
I get to take SA to the comic store on New Comics Day! Yippee!
And what's the fun in becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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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.
Steph L. - Aug 25, 2004 9:21:53 am PDT #5582 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 11:27:12 am PDT #5583 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sumi, I snickered like a twelve year old over that particular scene in Batman.
Astounishing kinda rent me. This was my first Catwoman, and is it always that pornily drawn? Slopey pointy tits and crotch shots? Ick. Haven't finished Batman yet, but I like that particular subplot a lot. It gets me emotionally.
sumi - Aug 25, 2004 11:35:33 am PDT #5584 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
I think that I would have been more broken by Astounishing if I had come in knowing more about Colossus then I do.
And given that Catwoman is Bruce's booty call. .. probably.
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2004 11:40:47 am PDT #5585 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
See, I've loved poor Colossus forever, and was broken up when he died. I totally fell for the misdirection of expecting a different not!dead person. He's such a poor, noble yet not icky, sweetheart. Plus, KitiNClossis4EVA!!!1!
Jeff Mejia - Aug 25, 2004 12:12:29 pm PDT #5586 of 10000
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
This was my first Catwoman, and is it always that pornily drawn?
It has been since issue #25, when the new art team of Paul Gulacy and Jimmy Plamiotti took over. Before that, the pop-noir art of first Darwyn Cooke and then Cameron Stewart was praised in many (intelligent) circles. I know that I loved that style, it really gave the title a different feel than the other Bat-books (heck, different than most other superhero titles) and really fit in with Brubaker's writing sensisbilities.
Gulacy has been quoted that he "knows what the fans want" and will draw the title the he has been, regardless of the way the title was before.
-t - Aug 25, 2004 1:39:36 pm PDT #5587 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am an idiot and have one too many IC#1 and Fables #28. Anyone want them?
Taken by surprise by Astounishing. I was absolutely watching the wrong hand.
JZ - Aug 25, 2004 1:56:54 pm PDT #5588 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Hec and I missed out on IC#1. I wouldn't care so much, but he'd be all bouncy if we could have your extra.
-t - Aug 25, 2004 2:03:16 pm PDT #5589 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's yours. Send an address to my profile address and I'll put it in the mail this weekend.
Cheapest wedding present ever. And late.
DXMachina - Aug 25, 2004 2:17:51 pm PDT #5590 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The local Newbury's had bothered to put out today's books yet when I was there tonight. Bother.
amych - Aug 25, 2004 2:29:33 pm PDT #5591 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Random wondering: Is/was Louis E. Grieve somebody in particular? I mean, aside from being the namesake of a fictional high school? Neither google nor my internal brain serves up either a 'verse character or an obvious subject for a tribute (the way it would be if it were, say, Julie Schwartz HS). But doesn't sound to me like a generic made-up name, either.