V for Vendetta is frelling amazing. I really need to re-read it - it's been a decade, literally.
It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.
Angelus ,'Smile Time'
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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.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 10, 2003 5:32:47 pm PDT #988 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2003 6:08:34 pm PDT #989 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I got an extra copy of 1602.2 for Holli. After the boxed-set-thread-brou-ha-ha I'd thought I'd better let everyone know so that she doesn't end up with three copies.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2003 6:14:58 pm PDT #990 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jon, you're supposed to say before. Now I bet there are seven already in the mail to her.
Holli - Sep 10, 2003 6:30:52 pm PDT #991 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Jon, can I email your profile addy with my college mailing address?
Also, thank you!
Michele T. - Sep 10, 2003 6:33:37 pm PDT #992 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I have read #2, and I don't know who Virginia Dare is! Victor, whitefont?
Next week, the new Endless book...
victor infante - Sep 10, 2003 6:40:22 pm PDT #993 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Okey doke. Virginia Dare is indeed Snowbird.
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2003 6:46:00 pm PDT #994 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jon, can I email your profile addy with my college mailing address?
Sure Holli. Didn't you get my email?
Also, thank you!
No problemo.
Michele T. - Sep 10, 2003 8:33:12 pm PDT #995 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Thank you, Victor! I have way too much Marvel backstory reading to do for this one -- I hope it will pay off for those of us who mostly know the recent movies as well as the longtime Marvel geeks.
Did you all see that Michael Chabon is doing an actual comic of "The Escapist," the comic within the novel of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay? I'm incoherent with psychedness.
CaBil - Sep 10, 2003 11:27:23 pm PDT #996 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Victor, interestedly enough, I passed along that supposition a few weeks ago to the folks running the 1602 website, and they replied that it couldn't be that character, since that character was created after 1969...
Anne W. - Sep 11, 2003 12:47:04 am PDT #997 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I was wondering much the same thing, CaBil, given what Gaiman had said about not including Wolverine, etc. I've got a feeling that the matter of Virginia's identity is not as simple as we think, and may in fact be the point on which the plot of 1602 turns. Her position on the cover is not accidental, IMHO.
Another thing that has me wondering what's really going on is something that Gaiman said in an interview about 1602: (actual spoilery material) He indicated that this is not a "What If" or "Elseworlds" type scenario, which suggests to me that 1602 is more than a simple matter of mapping Marvel characters onto another time and culture.