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.

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.

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?

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.

"Fastball Special" is Wolvie's and Colossus's catch phrase for Peter launching Wolverine.

Heh. That's awesome.

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.

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.

Dude likes Cyclops? You gotta work on picking better people to flirt with.

Okay, ita's conversation with the guy at krav made me laugh until tears came streaming down my face.

The Tales of the Vampire tpb is coming out on November 24th.