Bil, I hit edit on your post instead of doing a reply. My mega-bad.
You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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amych - Nov 10, 2004 10:51:09 am PST #6335 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
CaBil - Nov 10, 2004 10:56:09 am PST #6336 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Plei, I don't blame BW too much. From what I understand, the direction of WarGames was pretty much laid down from above the writer's head, from Bat editorial and higher. They were dealt with a bad hand and had to make it work. They didn't
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2004 11:01:01 am PST #6337 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My store has no IC. Pisser.
I am caught up on last week though.
I choked up a little when Wolverine said "Well, then I have two words for you..." I'm a sap like that. However, that's one hell of an arm, there, Pete.
It's a dumbly picked team. Fighters -- they have two excellent ones. Stealth -- two (well, three if you accept something shown in Uncanny). Psychic -- one. Distance powers -- two. Superstrength? NSM. Flight? NONE.
Dude. Lame.
P.M. Marc - Nov 10, 2004 11:01:34 am PST #6338 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Bil, my opinion of Willingham's work in the 'verse was formed long before War Games, within the first issue or two of his run on Robin.
You can take a character, in this case, Tim Drake, in a radical new direction, but if there's seemingly NO basis in previous characterization for the actions and reactions during that direction, you'll lose me as a reader.
What made the run of Nightwing up to 93 such a read for me was just how deep-rooted in the character's history and previous behavior the whole thing was. You could see where it was all coming from. Willingham's Tim? NSM.
Steph L. - Nov 10, 2004 11:05:16 am PST #6339 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I choked up a little when Wolverine said "Well, then I have two words for you..." I'm a sap like that.
Ummm....what made you choke up? Is there some sort of X-history I missed there?
DXMachina - Nov 10, 2004 11:08:37 am PST #6340 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I choked up a little when Wolverine said "Well, then I have two words for you..." I'm a sap like that.
Except he didn't say them...
Is there some sort of X-history I missed there?
"Fastball Special" is Wolvie's and Colossus's catch phrase for Peter launching Wolverine.
Steph L. - Nov 10, 2004 11:11:23 am PST #6341 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"Fastball Special" is Wolvie's and Colossus's catch phrase for Peter launching Wolverine.
Heh. That's awesome.
askye - Nov 10, 2004 11:13:34 am PST #6342 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I stood in the comic book store and read Astonishing and when I got to the two page spread a squeed like the fan girl I am.
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2004 11:14:37 am PST #6343 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The fastball special is a Wolverine and Colossus special. It's their thing.
A guy walked past me at krav in a GL toque, so I grabbed it off his head, and pretended to not want to give it back.
me: Well, if it were Superman I wouldn't let you wear it.
him: Why? What's wrong with Superman?
me: You gotta pick -- Supes or Batman.
him: Why do I have to pick? Can't I like them both?
me: Nope. It's like Wolverine and Cyclops. You can only like one.
him: But Wolverine and Cyclops are both cool.
me: You're some strange sort of comics ho.
him: You like Wolverine more, don't you? Cykes could totally kick his ass.
me: Please! Unpowered Storm can kick Cyclops around the room.
him: That was just the one time.
me: How many times do you have to be beaten by a normal GIRL?
him: Well, he was under..
me: Don't even say it!
him: ... the influence of the Goblin Queen.
me: Retcon! Retcon!
him, quietly: Retcon? We're probably the only two people in this room that know that word, and I'm going to pretend I don't. You're on your own.
me: ::waves freak flag::
eta:
Except he didn't say them...
Didn't need to.
amych - Nov 10, 2004 11:16:04 am PST #6344 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Dude likes Cyclops? You gotta work on picking better people to flirt with.