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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (?).

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

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.

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.

Not Sue, Kalshane -- Ororo. I got tangled in Storms.

I'm the last person in the world to pipe up for Cyclops, but he can't make things blow up! Concussive force! Pfft.