Graphically inclined.

[thebitterguy]

This entry on Progressive Ruin is really neat. They used some promotional rings (and big props to papajoemambo for one of those beauts) to recreate (in the most generous use of the term possible) a classic cover from Green Lantern’s Emerald Twilight.

I didn’t know there was a new GLC comic book. I’ll have to pick it up. I wonder if you can get a bike shirt that looks like a Green Lantern’s . That would be neat.

Did a quick comics run yesterday before game. Got the new Astonishing X-Men, which was so very, very good. Emma Frost finally makes her heel turn, and some characters I’ve never heard of (Negasonic Teenage Warhead? Perfection?) have joined the Hellfire club, which is totally messing up the dress code.

Wolverine regresses to poncehood ("I’m the best at what I do. And what I do… is so terribly pretty!"). I’m half tempted to watch that horrible Buffy episode where everyone loses their memory.

The final panel is, really, one of those things that you either love, or it’s final proof you’ve lost your ability to enjoy life and are a poor, sad, shell of a human being.

All-Star Superman continues to be awesome. Just awesome. Big fat bags of Awesome thrown up into the air and coming down as popcorn. Caramel popcorn, floating down like snowflakes. Whee! It makes me so very happy.

Also got 52 #7. Why is it that this book is so very much better than Infinite Crisis? I mean, IC had some great FY! moments (Superman Vs Superman on Earth 2, the breaking of the wall), but other than that had big chunks of crap that literally flew off the page onto your face.

Eternals #1 was not the religious experience it should have been. I’m also too many years away from OHOTMU issues that explained who they were to have any recollection. The Celestials remain cool. I do recall the Deviants giving GWB refuge during Kang’s invasion of Earth.

A light week, but I put some books back in order to escape womanly wrath. Which didn’t work, but that’s hardly surprising.

Man, you know, I put together a putative comics blog. I should really use some of this stuff for that.

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why do you hurt the ones you love?

[perich.livejournal.com]

but other than that had big chunks of crap that literally flew off the page onto your face. (emphasis mine)

GAH!

Okay, yeah, I didn't mean literally

[thebitterguy]

I was actually visualizing a video where a happy comic fan would come out of his FLCS, open the new IC, and a chunk of turd would fly up into his face.

Then, IC finishes, and he's so happy, and then picks up a copy of The New Avengers, and the camera focuses in and there is ominous music. Duh duh duhhhhh.

Re: Okay, yeah, I didn't mean literally

[perich.livejournal.com]

I was visualizing the steaming feces in his face. Wiping them out of his eyes, he reaches, vision obscured, for another comic ...

Oh no! War Games Part III!

Re: Okay, yeah, I didn't mean literally

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

It virtually felt like it was literally.

There? SATISFIED???

[graveyardgreg.livejournal.com]

Negasonic Teenage Warhead was one of Emma's students in Genosha. We saw her minutes before the Sentinels blew the place up. She's supposedly dead, but as you can see...she's not.

As for that last panel, did it involke some nice memories from the first encounter with the Hellfire Club waaaaaay back when? ;)

[thebitterguy]

As for that last panel, did it involke some nice memories from the first encounter with the Hellfire Club waaaaaay back when? ;)

Did it EVER. Joss is playing me like a puppet, and all I can say is "make me dance, Gepetto!"

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Good to know I wasn't the only one who caught it...

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

That panel in 132 and the first four pages of the comic that followed it established the character of Wolverine from then to now. Period.

It was a great moment.

Hell, Yeah - Spoilers - Deal With It

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

There are a handful of times in the past 25 years when I have felt this "OMFG! Good!" about an X-Men comic:

- When Morrison and Quitely's first issue of New X-Men (who's logo was the same right side up as upside down) and Cyclops' first line was "You can probably stop doing that now, Wolverine" as Logan kept swiping at the head of a dead Sentinal.

- When Whedon and Cassaday set up the fastball special in the middle of the last "Season" of Astonishing X-Men.

- When Hank broke up with Trish Trilby for being an insensitive bitch (I had to take Hank's side on this one) and made her feel stupid on top of it by telling her that he might be gay as well.

- and the first time that last panel showed up with Wolverine saying the same dialogue in #132.

I've been a lot like the Old Marvel Fanboy On The Mountain this week because I can remember how it felt to have all of the X-Men in SERIOUSLY deep, not just hot but BOILING water, and that promise of pay-back from the one character who had apparently been takenout of the fight early.

I pity Cassandra Nova when Logan "comes to" out of his James-Hewlitt-before-he-popped-his-claws-the-first-time mode. As a matter of fact, I pity her when Scott-without-any-self-restraint taps into his anger at Xaviers in general when *he* comes to.

And as I was saying to my friend lostjane all through the scene with Peter and Shaw, all I was thinking, was, like a fanboy rapt at the teat of goodness, "For Christ's sake Peter, stop hitting him - you're only making him STRONGER..."

Nice to know Whedon loves the X-Sources I do. So reassaurring for the old farts like me.