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Many thanks to Newsarama for the fix. GM teaming w/ Ed McG = THE penultimate JLA team.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

You're aware that "penultimate" means second from final, right?

― Huck, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely that's because Grant Morrison and John Cassaday would be the ultimate team?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

but I’m afraid it's not the gloomy 'adult' world of Sue Dibny's shredded lycra pants so keep well away if it's attempted rape you crave. Cannibalism, yes, rape, no. My DCU is a day-glo, non-stop funhouse, where the world is threatened every five minutes and godlike beings clash in the skies like fireworks

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Bitchin. Wicked bitchin.

I've never warmed up to Mister Miracle much or for long, but he seems like the kind of character Morrison could do a nice job with.

If superheroes hadn't existed, would Morrison had invented them, or would he have just written the most bizarre aviator, western, and boxer stories imaginable?

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Huck, you're aware that it's assumed I invoke "poetic license" when I do that there talkin' stuff. (For the record, I was under the impression that "penultimate" = "be all and end all".)

BTW, Tep, Warren Ellis is doing a quartet of one-shots (for Avatar Comics) that are supposedly based on the notion that superheroes comics were never made. See?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, rock on. I don't know how I always miss the scoop on Ellis stuff, my girlfriend reads his blog all the time.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

She's holding out on you, hoss. Or you could just join his mailing list (BAD SIGNAL), & get your butter straight from the churn. Also, he's got a year-long weekly column @ The Pulse right now (he's on Week 4, I think) where you can read such pith as the following:

You can’t publish things just because, you know, you’ve always published them. You don’t keep a tumour in your head because, well, you’ve had it for years. THOR. No-one cares about THOR. No-one’s ever cared about THOR. I wrote THOR. I wrote Thor in bed with a blonde woman wearing nothing but thighboots and opera gloves drawn by Mike Deodato. And still no-one cared about THOR. No-one’s cared about THOR since Walt Simonson did the book. And what was the first thing Walt did? Got rid of Thor and replaced him with a horse from space. And the sales quadrupled.
A horse from space.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

No problem, David R. I've heard people use it like that before, it's wrong, but fairly common. Sort of like "infamous" (cf, Three Amigos).

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

S'all good - I'm actually glad you pointed that out; stuff like word misusage sticks in my craw. I just find it funny that I (former English major) whip out thee big words at inappropriate time. I'm like the Inept Slow Clapper.

Also - I think my new website name will be A HORSE FROM SPACE.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm totally gonna write a western called A MAN CALLED HORSE FROM SPACE.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Sales will quadruple.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://members.aol.com/jwffiction/manhorse/

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The Newsarama piece made me indescribably happy. Can't wait.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The bit Jordan quoted made me go "Hein?" so I did my research and lo and behold came across this review of Identity Crisis #2 -

http://www.411mania.com/comics/reviews/article.php?reviews_id=3718

- which has a fairly detailed plot summary.

Numerous DC readers have been complaining online about the treatment dished out to Sue Dibny, yet things like this do sadly happen in the world and they have rarely been explored in the confines of a superhero context (for example, this allows for truly touching panels such as Ralph using his stretching capabilities to fully wrap his arms around Sue to protect and comfort her).

I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been talked about on ILC but anyway, can anyone who's read IC2 confirm or deny that it's as catastrophically awful as the summary makes it sound?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

IT'S NOT CATASTROPHICALLY AWFUL

(more later, maybe)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It's very good. What goes on in it, or rather what's revealed in it to have gone on, is catastrophically awful, but Meltzer/Morales/Bair (the unsung hero of this series) pull it off pretty gracefully.

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!

PS: oh em jee!

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Next week, for real for real?

(I'm not even going to look at those preview pages)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

They look f'real f'real to me.

The preview pages are pretty sweet, but reproduced eensy-beensily.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

JH is the man.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

For real I'm all gonna be unable to stop myself from reading it on the bus home at the risk of looking like a juvenile delinquent/illiterate with this one

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

It's been so long I can't even remember what this was about. This will in no way stop me from buying it off the delivery truck.

― J (Jay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

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