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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.


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2004 7:57:40 am PST #6890 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Christ. I just lent a co-worker Y: Last Man, and now I want to take it back. I forgot there were boobies. I must make a note not to hand him Fables either.

I read Hush, and am sad. I thought it was Tommy, and then I thought it wasn't, and then ... poor Bruce.

However, the love story bothered me. It's not Batman/Bruce in love, because I kinda liked the whole Sasha revelation in Fugitive 3. I just don't get why her. I even prefer Talia.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 08, 2004 8:08:39 am PST #6891 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

Lend him the one where Yorick reminisces about losing his virginity—the reaction to that ought to be entertaining.


shrift - Dec 08, 2004 10:29:19 am PST #6892 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I keep forgetting that my comics have, like, bondage and sex and nudity and violence and gore and profanity and other controversial stuff. Some relatives were over for Thanksgiving while I was catching up on a giant stack of comics, and some of them were exclaiming, "I haven't seen one of these in years!" Got all grabby-hands. I wasn't bothered until I recalled that so many of my comics were not family friendly like whoa.

Had to do some fast swapping out with less interesting titles.


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2004 10:47:06 am PST #6893 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'd previously lent this guy Red Son -- innocuous, and then The Ultimates, which he proposed reading to his son. Yeah. Talked him out of that.

Finally I have TT #18. Hey! Fun! Dead people! Bad people!

Something in X4 annoyed me. Well, two things. The thing about which I write was a categorisation of heroes. In which reality are Johnny Storm, Storm Storm and Cyclops energy-emitting supers, and Gambit isn't? I don't think I'll be getting the rest of teh series.


Kalshane - Dec 08, 2004 11:01:55 am PST #6894 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Maybe they're saying Gambit converts matter into energy instead of simply creating it? But I was under the impression he imbued objects with energy, since he talks about "charging" things so it does seem weird.


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2004 11:02:53 am PST #6895 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

When you place it in context -- who's going on the rescue mission to a space station (as in, Gambit gets to go, the other three don't) -- the categorisation seems even weirder.

And they open with what must be the world's dumbest "we're heroes, but we fight upon meeting" brawl. Surely they're a bit more mature than that. ALL of them.


Thomash - Dec 08, 2004 11:04:57 am PST #6896 of 10000
I have a plan.

But I was under the impression he imbued objects with energy, since he talks about "charging" things so it does seem weird.

I was under that impression as well. That he 'converted' an objects potential or actual kinetic energy into explosive energy (?).


Kalshane - Dec 08, 2004 11:07:26 am PST #6897 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Huh. And what was their reasoning why energy-creating supers couldn't go ?


§ ita § - Dec 08, 2004 11:09:27 am PST #6898 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Because there might have been structural damage to the space station.

NO SENSE AT ALL. Maybe there's a concern about sparking leaking oxygen for an explosion, but that hardly accounts for letting Gambit go up, and leaving Cyclops.


Kalshane - Dec 08, 2004 11:18:21 am PST #6899 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

That doesn't make any sense. Especially since Gambit's powers are all about making things explode, potentially including turning pieces of the space station into explosives.

I can understand not wanting Johnny Storm in a place where having a big open flame is a really bad idea both in regards to keeping neccessary oxygen levels in the atmosphere and actual oxygen tanks but why Sue would be excluded is extremely strange. And I agree that if Cyclops's powers are a no-no, so should Gambit's.