Must be a tie-in with that new video game that has Sid as a character. Maybe they're planning to launch a doll action figure too?

OK - weird. There is a story up at slayage.com about SMG and "the cast" - the story says it's everybody - including Joss and Marti - of BtVS playing in a charity baseball game.

Coincidence?... Probably.

I would put up a link but I don't know how (I know, I need to just figure it out - but not now). It's the first story at slayage.

Uh, tina, do you know that the information in the '70s DC comics will not pertain to current continuity? Just a heads up, although there are pieces of that backstory that filter through to Smallville, movies, and other media.

Oh - I should have been clearer - I am not a huge Smallville fan. I like it - but not enough to read a zillion old comics just to get some backstory. But reading Fray has made me a huge comics fan. I am reading the backstory on Superman because I am reading new Supermans and have a friend who's a nut and gave me tons and tons to read - so - you know - it's fun and it's making him really happy.

I see a story about people decorating bases - - not playing baseball!

I see a story about people decorating bases - - not playing baseball!

Yeah. You'd be right...I'm just gonna stop with the typing and not being very clear and skimming too quickly now.

Oh - I should have been clearer - I am not a huge Smallville fan.

I think Jeff meant the current continuity in the DC comics, including Superman.

Jeff meant the current continuity in the DC comics, including Superman

(Blushes with new-to-both comics and buffista-posting embarassment. Yet feels confident she will find the courage to post again one day in this thread, where, for now, she feels she has made herself look really spastic and flighty.)

Oh. Ok. Thanks.

Really am going now.

No need to be embarassed, tina. I actually got back into comics, and for the first time in a big way, because of Fray as well. Two years ago, I wouldn't have been able to tell you anything about Superman continuity outside of the basics. As Jon pointed out, I was just trying to warn you that backstory from the 70's doesn't have much impact on current Superman comics (except where it does).

Yeah, didn't mean to embarass, and I apologise if I did!

Ah - last. post. in here. I promise.

No - no. I'm embarassed because I was being a spaz in general - you guys didn't embarass me.

A lot of it is - you know, you lurk for a long, long time. You're like - are there any smarter, funnier people in the whole world? Why aren't these posts being written down and published for the world to learn from? And so - at some point - you figure what the hell and jump in - and - constantly think there is no way you could possibly be saying anything that anyone thinks is interesting - ergo embarassment when you get all super spazy. Because I realize good-spazy here is to be praised and enjoyed by all - but when you're just a spaz with no proof that there is a thoughtful and interesting person underneath - well, you know, I don't want to be that.

Then you're all self-concious and - "Is that paragraph I just wrote too flattering? Does it look like I am fishing for praise and approval or just making too big a deal in general? Because I'm not -I'm just wordy - really. Crap." - and so on.

Anyway - it's all cool is what I am trying to say.

I really am leaving now - as in for several days on vacation - so don't take my silence as self-banishment - I will be combing the comic book and record stores of Chicago. I'm sure I'll have way too much to say when I get back.