Why 2099?
Fifth week event to keep their publishing volume up, something to do to test/entice Robert Kirkman a rising star among writers and to test the waters about a possible return of their 2099 line a mid 90s experiment.
I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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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.
CaBil - Oct 01, 2004 4:37:39 am PDT #6103 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Mr. Broom - Oct 01, 2004 8:14:27 am PDT #6104 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
This 2099 line appears to share only its name with the one that Marvel tried ten years ago (and which I followed pretty religiously for while until I realized the plots weren't that good).
Polter-Cow - Oct 02, 2004 6:59:34 am PDT #6105 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I got to see Part Two of the X-Men I hadn't seen today. Fun time-travel mayhem. But, really, I have to say something:
YOU CAN'T SEE VIRUSES AND ANTIBODIES WITH A FUCKING MICROSCOPE.
That's all.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 02, 2004 7:09:44 am PDT #6106 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Maybe it was a scanning electron microscope?
Polter-Cow - Oct 02, 2004 7:19:43 am PDT #6107 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Maybe it was a scanning electron microscope?
No, it wasn't. It was a light microscope. Which is what all microscopes look like on TV. SEMs look nothing like light microscopes. And besides, you don't look in an SEM, the computer does.
Also, there was the part where Beast could actually look in the microscope and watch the virus enter and infect cells in a matter of seconds. I must have been really young and stupid when I first watched this show. It's still good, but man. My disbelief must have been locked up in a coffin at the bottom of the ocean.
victor infante - Oct 02, 2004 7:21:25 am PDT #6108 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Maybe it was a scanning electron microscope?
It was a mutant telescope...
Tom Scola - Oct 02, 2004 7:49:29 am PDT #6109 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
This week I got Carnet de Voyage, the new book by Craig Thompson. It's basically a sketchbook diary of his travels in Europe and Morocco.
I really liked it. It's really authentic and heartfelt, and the artwork is gorgeous, especially considering that it's just a sketchbook, and part way along the trip he lost his art supplies, and some of the drawings are in ballpoint pen.
I read his first GN, Goodbye Chunky Rice, but I passed on his second book, Blankets, mostly because I was intimidated by its size (600 pages). I'm going to have to go back and read it now.
DXMachina - Oct 02, 2004 7:57:17 am PDT #6110 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It was a light microscope.
Pffft. It was a television microscope. They're extra special. Television microscopes can even be used to determine molecular stuctures.
Gris - Oct 02, 2004 8:37:46 am PDT #6111 of 10000
Hey. New board.
I watched a couple of episodes of the X-Men cartoon, and I just can't handle it. X-Men as superheroes well beyond their power bothers me. Rogue should not be able to fly around, pick up a tree, and knock down large juggernaut-sized mutants with it. She doesn't have super-strength in my mind.
'Course, i'm missing a lot of X-Men canon in the comic world, too. So maybe this happens at some point (a friend of mine suggested that she sucked up the powers of a dying Wonderwoman???) - so far, I'm only familiar with movie-Rogue and the much different but nonetheless limited Ultimate-Rogue.
Is Scott supposed to be strong enough to break metal chains without using his eye-thing? I don't think he is. Another example.
I don't mind the concept of "X-Men are superheroes, let's make them all Superman/Wonderwoman" in theory. I just can't watch it.
askye - Oct 02, 2004 8:47:43 am PDT #6112 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I'm a little sketchy on my X Men canon, but when Rogue was still with Mystique and bad she absorbed Ms. Marvel's personality and powers. Something happened and she kept Ms. Marvel's powers which included flight, super human strength, etc.
I think she ended up with Ms. Marvel's personality at one point too.