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§ ita § - Dec 22, 2004 10:57:27 am PST #7028 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Joss writes the funniest X-Men I've read in a long time. Not only am I grooving on Kitty, but Wolverine's "I really like beer." made me laugh out loud in the restaurant. I noticed that someone wrote in to say the callback to the fastball special made them tear up.

X-Men itself was fairly sweet -- next year is Peter Milligan -- has he written X before?

sumi - Dec 22, 2004 11:00:41 am PST #7029 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!

Not going to pick up comics today. It's way too cold.

DavidS - Dec 22, 2004 1:08:19 pm PST #7030 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Jesus CHRIST. I made the mistake of wandering around the internet looking for a bio on Lady Shiva and found a board arguing about DC's greatest martial artists. Ultimate savage geekfest beyond all redemption.

It made Who's Stronger Hulk vs. Thor? look like Remembrance Of Things Past.

§ ita § - Dec 22, 2004 1:16:54 pm PST #7031 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Dear lord. Totally Batgirl. (uh, where was it?)

DavidS - Dec 22, 2004 1:55:22 pm PST #7032 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

(uh, where was it?)

You'll be sorry. There's this whole Karate Kid thing.

The Eltingville Club take on DC's Greatest Martial Artists.

Elais - Dec 22, 2004 1:58:57 pm PST #7033 of 10000
making her home at bronzebeta.com since 2001

got Astonishing #7 and Green Arrow #45. They seem to be leagues apart in quality.

§ ita § - Dec 22, 2004 2:00:45 pm PST #7034 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, dear, Hec, that's HYSTERICAL. Cassandra has her defenders, but damn, there's not much reading happening there.

How was GA, Elais?

Elais - Dec 22, 2004 2:27:54 pm PST #7035 of 10000
making her home at bronzebeta.com since 2001

How was GA, Elais?

I went to the comic shop to get Astonishing and spotted GA with Speedy on the cover. After reading about that character being the one with HIV, I decided to get it too.

GA

It starts out with Speedy (don't know her name) giving a talk about HIV in front of a group of students. GA gets into a fighty fight with Brick, Speedy convinces GA to let her become his side-kick, end of story. I kinda liked Speedy's arguement at the end, but the dialogue and artwork seemed came across as a little too dumbed-down.

Astonished seemed to have said a lot more using less dialogue and the artwork told more of the story as well.

§ ita § - Dec 22, 2004 2:31:21 pm PST #7036 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This did feel like quite a busy Astounishing, for a Joss comic. As for GA, there seems to be some equation between public service announcement and pedantic/didactic. Not that it even has to be a PSA.

§ ita § - Dec 22, 2004 4:26:23 pm PST #7037 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oy. I just realised that the bit that made me laugh so loudly from Astounishing was the same payoff from Earshot. Ah, well. Good comedy endures.

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