Mock if you must, but the fuckers broke my bra this afternoon while I was out for a spot of lunch with a friend.

They're so completely in the doghouse, it's not even funny.

Well, the right one is, at any rate.

What I'm enjoying most about War Games (the first x-over title I've read "real time" in a dog's age--most things in my world have been Wait For the Trade) is seeing which writers, IMO, play well with others, and which ones don't. By which I mean, who, in terms of style, jars me out of the storyline. Thus far, Lieberman is the worst offender, and Gabrych goes down the smoothest.

Thus far, Lieberman is the worst offender, and Gabrych goes down the smoothest.

Connect them to their titles, please.

What P-C said.

I noticed in this week's installment (I spent less than $10 at the store ... felt weird) that the whole Batman is a menace thing was replaced by the idea that he exacerbated a tense situation.

Or maybe that's just my faulty memory of last week -- he was almost a murderer then.

I can't get any comic books until next week. This is driving me crazy ... I want to read Bird of Prey!!

Lieberman = Legends, Gabrych = 'Tec.

I think an organized storyline brings out the geek in Gabrych, while serving to rein in some of his more outlandish notions.

(In a totally unrelated to War Games note, a Google to make sure I had Gabrych's name spelled correctly verified that his pointy blond head is, in fact, one of the ones in my archive of boymackage example pages for drawing potential pervy fanart. There is something beautifully circular about that.)

What's the pitch for Marvel Age? It's not it's own entire continuity, like Ultimate, right? But it's younger, like much of Ultimate?

I think Marvel Age is geared toward younger readers, and so it's supposed to be more G-rated. Or at least PG.

Though I haven't read any, so I don't know if that's really the case.

A friend sent me the first Runaways TPB, and it doesn't feel significantly younger than Ultimate Spiderman.

It was fun, and too damned short.

They mention Batman! It was really weird. They mention him like we'd mention him (well, without porn) -- like the Avengers were real, and Batman a cultural ref.

What's the pitch for Marvel Age?

I believe Marvel Age is a re-doing the original issues, but "modernized". So it's kinda like Ultimate, but it sticks to canon and I think there's an issue-to-issue mirror with the orginal comics from the 60s. I haven't read any of them, but I asked myself the same question a few months ago and that's what I was able to find out.