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If I see one more smirky dumbass rape-related gag / joke / comment in the comic blogosphere, I'm taking an extended lunch.

PS - LEEEEEE X-FORCE #1 IS COMING OUT YIPPEE!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Bruce Campbell is writing one of those BMW-sponsored comics, WTF?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, it's a really light week for me, probably just Powers and District-X, which means I'll probably get some sort of trade goodness.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's writing the DCP Flash? I'll take a look at that.

Fables, maybe Dr Spectrum, Powers, Supreme Power, maybe X-Force (God how I remember the flurry over X-Force #1 last time around), and I haven't picked up last week's stuff yet cause I was working and the girlfriend was out of town.

My best friends are in the process of moving to China for a year, maybe I'll pick them up some tpbs as their comics fix. (I wonder what comics are imported to China, and from where.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Gotham Central
Green Arrow
Identity Crisis
maybe last week's JL Elite
and maybe the Flash thing.

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, Fables, sweet.

Btw I finally watched Mask of the Phantasm last night, it really was pretty good. I love the choir version of the theme.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Anybody seen the more recent Mystery of the Batwoman and know if it's of similar quality?

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Tep, you didn't read the X-Force full-issue preview @ MileHighComics.com?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Con re: new X-Force - no card & plastic baggie. Boo hiss.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I hadn't checked the MHC previews this week! Oh dear, I can feel the trepidation. But I'll go read it.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's actually been up for over a month, I think. It's 3rd or 4th on the list in the Full Marvel Preview section (below the ultimately superior UXM #50).

Fudge to Marvel to putting up pages from the next issue of Astonishing X-Men, BTW - meesa no want spoilage!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, Fables. Last issue was gone by the time I got to the store because of the 6,000 Presbytarians roaming around campus 3 weeks ago. So I've missed some story. Bah.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't read Fables, but why is it so popular among Presbyterians?

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I wondered the same thing, I think perhaps it was just a whole slew of kids in visiting my town for a youth conference from small towns that didn't have a comic book/record/etc. store, and when I went in to the shop they were everywhere, buying everything that they saw. They did this at all the restaurants too.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, most of the Fables are from good, solid European backgrounds.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Despite knowing everything else ever, my knowledge of the Presbyterian faith is sadly lacking. It's Scottish, right?

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea, I'm just bullshitting. The differences between Xtian denominations are a mystery to me for the most part.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too, Jordan. I do know that John Knox is the founder of Presbyterianism. I went to his house in Edinburgh with a Presby friend. He had devils and angels painted on the ceiling.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything I know about Christianity I learned from reading Milton and Lucifer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything I know about Christianity I learned from _Father Dowling Mysteries+ & _Amen_.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

For a minute there I thought that Milton had written a whole work called Lucifer that I had never heard of, like an addition to Paradise Lost. Then I realized I was being silly.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

PARADISE LOST 2: LUCIFER STRIKES BACK!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

PARADISE LOST 3: SNAKE EYES

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Paradise Lost 4: Lost With A Vengeance

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

PARADISE LOST: A NEW CIRCLE OF HELL

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, that should be the name of the Dante's Inferno sequel.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Lost & Losterer

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Die Luciferman Die!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Satan Hears a Who!

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

PARADISE LOST 5: The Lostening

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

PARADISE LOST 6: Luce in the Hood

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucifer 2: Electric Boogaloo
YHWH v. LCFR

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

PL7: Dude, Where's My Eternal Soul?

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Lostening" just made me giggle like crazy. I also want to see David Lynch's PARADISE LOST HIGHWAY.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

PARADISE LOST IN TRANSLATION

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Raiders of the Paradise Lost Ark?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland are the PARADISE LOST BOYS.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

So, in two days we get to see Deathstroke the Terminator kick JL-Ass!

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

What's this? Shenanigans? (This is why ILcomics is funner than ILX nowadays.)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, speaking of comics -- I just finished X-Force #1 at Mile High, and bleh. I wanted to like it for some reason -- I guess because it's FabNic -- but it doesn't do anything for me.

I'm a little exasperated at the Astonishing X-Men solicit implying that the "cure" for mutanthood isn't genuine -- sure, no real surprise there, but it'd be a much more interesting story if there was a cure. (And really, in the context of super-duper Marvel Universe cloning-Gwen-Stacy High Evolutionary unstable molecules adamantium golem repulsor ray Pym particle technology, why on Earth isn't there?)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

So the green stuff (in panel 2) is Doop's brane, and Dead Girl seems to have had lost an eye.

< /denial>

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Said the chalk-white mercenary with the eyepatch.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally caught up on comics:

Powers #2, 3 (?! didn't I only skip a week of hitting the store?) -- I'm really liking this arc. And geez, it's the first arc of vol 2, but it's the one that draws the most on previous stories! You don't see that often.

Y -- it's good, it's just ... I don't know, this is one of those titles I read every month, enjoy every month, but I hardly ever go "that was a damn good issue!"

Fables -- good filler story, looks like.

Ultimate Nightmare -- good so far, even if I always worry when a writer decides to explain Tunguska (as I've been tempted to do three or four times myself).

Astonishing X-Men -- this Orb of Ringworld dude or whoever he is, I don't like him; but I don't dislike him, I'm just neutrally disinterested towards him the way I am most Whedon Demon-types, and he's definitely a Whedon Demon-type. What's with Cassaday's noses?

Haven't read Maxx vol. 3 yet.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing about Y is that it's a competently written comic with realistic characters and dialogue and just enough plot objects to keep it ticking over. In an ideal world, there'd be a dozen series' like this on the stands every month, and it'd be nothing special, but as it is I enjoy supporting it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I finally picked up and read everything from last week that I wanted.
Gotham Central - Conclusion of the "Unresolved" arc, which brings perennial lowlife Harvey Bullock back into the lives of Gotham's finest. The resolution of the crime was sort of telegraphed in the last issue, in that sort of "why would they bother spending so much time on that otherwise insignificant character if they weren't, indeed, the killer" but GC isn't really a whodunnit book anyhow. And it always looks great, and the character stuff is cool.

Identity Crisis - Finally, some mad spandex-on-spandex action in a non-flashback thingamajig. What is it, half over already? Or nearly half, i think it's a 7-part mini, which is stupid. Who does anything in 7 parts? Anyway, I'm starting to get a little blasé about it.

Green Arrow - I like bows and arrows. Shut up.

I also picked up Hush Vol. 1 in paperback. It's Two-Face, isn't it?

― Huck, Monday, 16 August 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still not reading Identity Crisis, but it's just because Outsiders is the only DCU title I've read regularly in ... three years? Maybe longer: the last time I remember reading anything in the DCU on a regular basis, Waid was on Flash and Morrison was on JLA. Oh, except for Kevin Smith's Green Arrow run.

So I've just got no investment there, although I may pick up Flash if a new and interesting creative team comes on board (or has), and ditto JLA.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I've lost interest in Flash. I'm just buying Green Lantern because it's going to end soon, and, like, whatever. Though I did skip the last issue of the previous arc. It was just so boring that I didn't want to know how it all turned out.
I think Gotham Central is the only book that I'm reading regularly that I'm not just kinda buying in case it suddenly gets good.

― Huck, Monday, 16 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've been meaning to look into the Batman books in general, I just keep forgetting when I'm actually at the store -- long-standing habit of ignoring them :) I don't have anything against the DCU, it was just one of those things where I dropped one title after another for different reasons, and all of a sudden I wasn't reading any.

(The same thing happened with Marvel, come to think of it, barring the Ultimate universe and Alias.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 16 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

re: Y. I think the appeal, at least for us arrested development boys, is that it rolls a metric tonne of genres that appeal to the adolescent in us: an adventurous quest story, animal sidekicks, sharp humour/wit, and above all, the premise of being TEH LAST MAN ON EARTH!!!

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Monday, 16 August 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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