Joss did post in the Firefly thread that it was almost finished an that Karl (Moline, the penciller), was "on fuego".

I read that name as Karl Malone, the star power forward for the Utah Jazz. It confused the hell out of me.

BTW, I believe that this may be the first time that Karl Malone's name has ever been mentioned on this board.

No. Fray #8 got pushed back to July (I don't have the exact date). Joss did post in the Firefly thread that it was almost finished an that Karl (Moline, the penciller), was "on fuego".

Is that in the ESPN SportCenter context, or the Once More With Feeling context?

BTW, I believe that this may be the first time that Karl Malone's name has ever been mentioned on this board.

Possibly. There has occasionally been basketball talk in the past, and I vaguely remember mentioning John Stockton one time...

I have ragged on the Jazz. I probably named names, hating Malone as I do.

Yeah, I was pretty sure you said something unkind about him.

Uh-oh. I spy the teensiest amount of basketball talk. My basketball junkie status is only second to my Buffy junkie-ness. But that has very little to do with the jossverse, so trying to come up with something on topic....

I generally don't buy the main Buffy comic series - but I am enjoying the lastest Buffy-goes-into-an-institution arc quite a bit. It's sad and twisted to see her deal with her real-family dysfunction and - Buffy in a support group - does it get much better than that? And I cannot explain my love for the younger and even more annoying than season 5 Dawn. I grew to love her dearly and now find all the things I used to hate about her totally endearing...I do the same thing with boyfriends. Huh.

Also - the good thing about the waiting between Frays is that it forces me to read every one of them over when the new one comes out - which is always fun.

See, I like Karl Malone, both because A) I'm an unabashed Jazz fan (I live in Utah after all) and B) He is absolutely and unabashedly himself.

Anyone feel like proposing a Sports thread?

So, um . . . . Who would win in a game of one-on-one, Buffy or Wolverine?

Wolverine. But he'd play dirty.

Wolverine would puncture the ball and Buffy would win by default.

Alright - you guys kept it going.

It is funny that this comes up because I was just reading a Superman from the 70s that has all the good guys playing the bad guys (uh yeah I am way new to comics and know there is a better way to say that - but hey at least I am trying to go back and get some backstory) in a game of ultimate superhero/supervillian baseball. The comic was released during the World Series of whatever year that was and just couldn't be a. cheesier. and b. more boring. But still kinda funny. Baseball game told in comic format? Not so exciting.

So after reading that, last night I was imagining my favorite gang of superheroes against villians in a NCAA tournament style basketball game - then I kept seeing Clark (smallville Clark) and Buffy in those really long basketball shorts the kids wear nowadays - and it just lost its charm.

I would be a supporter of a sports thread - but I think everyone else would get mighty sick of hearing about the Jayhawks (University of Kansas). Jayhawk basketball is my One True Sports Love Above All Others and I can get wayyyyy too into it.