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Volans - Aug 16, 2003 5:53:00 pm PDT #867 of 10000
move out and draw fire

I read it in two sessions...I read the first half, more or less, a couple nights ago at work. Then today I went back and reviewed the first half, because I was starting to see all the connections. I finished it today.

My only complaint, okay, my only two complaints are that the ending felt rushed to me. Also, while the artist managed to include a ton of information and recurring motifs, I wasn't thrilled with how he drew the female characters, at least in the first few issues. I thought Sally Jupiter was a transvestite. It got better, but I had some problems with the art. For example, I was convinced that Rorschach's secret identity was who he turned out to be, but when his face is revealed for the first time, I thought, "Oh, it's NOT him...the hair color's the same though, which is weird."

But otherwise, I'm all kinds of impressed. It's one of the best things I've ever read about the world as seen by the Boomers. Also, I like Moore taking the overly-moral genre of comic books and creating a purposefully non-moral comic book. Everything is shades of grey.

JenP - Aug 17, 2003 6:24:49 pm PDT #868 of 10000

Just won the bid for my first ever e-bay item -- the Fray series. Thanks for all the info./advice upthread. I can't wait to get my hands on these. Yippee!

Megan E. - Aug 18, 2003 9:53:57 am PDT #869 of 10000

I wonder if someone will make a Buffy trivia game. I'd so buy that.

Holli - Aug 18, 2003 9:55:14 am PDT #870 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

There used to be a Buffy trivia book. I bought it at an extreme discount ages ago, when our nearest Crown Books went out fo business, but the questions were all really easy.

Megan E. - Aug 18, 2003 10:05:00 am PDT #871 of 10000

Yeah, I have the book. I think Sue bought it for me! Maybe I'll make my own game using the trivia book.

Micole - Aug 18, 2003 11:31:58 am PDT #872 of 10000
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

Jess Nevins has put together an extremely useful set of annotations to 1602, vol. 1.

tina f. - Aug 18, 2003 11:49:08 am PDT #873 of 10000

Check this out: Things from Another World just sent out my Fray #8!!!

What the hell? Do they really think there are CASUAL fans of a 8-issue Joss mini-series who can just wait an extra 10 days for the final issue that took a jillion years to come out???

The only reason this does not totally piss me off is that since I bought 2, now one can stay all pristine and perfect.

Jessica - Aug 18, 2003 1:03:37 pm PDT #874 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Do they really think there are CASUAL fans of a 8-issue Joss mini-series who can just wait an extra 10 days for the final issue that took a jillion years to come out???

Uh, standing right here?

esse - Aug 18, 2003 2:01:35 pm PDT #875 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I'm pretty sure she meant it jokingly, Jess.

Noumenon - Aug 18, 2003 6:47:38 pm PDT #876 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

Maybe they figured Fray fans had necessarily developed extra patience.

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