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Habakkuk

Name: Russell Patterson

Bio: A mid-40s curmudgeon in training... you have a problem with that, Sonny?Married with two cats and no kids, living in the Deep South.  Been reading comics off and on for about as long as I can remember (I still can't get an issue of Justice League of America from my childhood out of my head - aliens arrive as little blobs with a single eye and start cleaning everyone's clock to the point that they turn Aquaman into a mer-man and when all is darkest they call on Hawkman for back-up and he has flown off to Thanagar leaving them in their hour of need.  Never found out how it turned out and it has bugged me to this day).  Returned to reading them in high school, reading John Byrne's run on Fantastic Four and the like.  I kept a hand in now and again for a few years and have just recently begun reading again in earnest. 


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September 4, 2012 9:46 pm Listening to the podcast today and the guys discussing their condition for being willing to cosplay, all I could think was Kickstarter. Who is up for raising $10K to see one of the boys wandering around Comic*Con in their suggested outfit?
June 27, 2011 2:54 pm I am putting a vote in for Amethyst, Princess of Gem World. 

Stranger things have happened...
April 18, 2011 2:35 pm Note: what is to follow is just one of those "pondering things a bit too much" comments

In the scene with Colossus and Kitty and Namor, Kitty is thrown through the mechanical monster to disrupt it.  There is cool illustration of her suit smashing on one side and her flying out through the suit on the other side, having phased through the robot. The problem I just realized is that the suit is being employed to allow her to interract with the outside world since she is in a perpetually phased state and that would mean that to her the suit is solid or else she would be unable to wear it.  So doesn't that mean that when the suit hit the robot, she wouldn't pass through the suit but instead be flattened against the side of the robot?

Yeah, yeah... I know... thinking about it too much.
January 25, 2011 9:51 am This had been the direction of my thinking from the beginning.  Johnny is the only one not in obvious danger (Sue with the fish, Ben being depowered, and Reed with Galactus) and it ultimately makes for some very compelling stories in the future.  Ben chose to depower himself and "on his watch" Johnny is killed, which leads the question for Ben: if he hadn't been "selfish" and depowered could he have prevented the death.  Sue of course loses a brother and Reed with the compelling decision presented him by the Council of Reeds and then by Galactus, will likely be distracted by all that he feels he is responsible to do for the future of humanity and therefore will not be there for Sue in her grief, making for stress and strain in the family.  All in all, it is a fine jumping off point for a number of stories that further explore the family dynamic that the book has been working through of late.
December 15, 2009 12:29 pm

I think the key to this donnybrook will be found in alcohol: Dazzler has been consuming it and Hex has not.  In the case of the former, it will reduce her reaction time and mess with her judgement.  Sure, she can create light which travels 299,792,458 meters per second, but if she can't get her act together to produce it or if her aim is off due to her significant inebriation, then things may go badly for her.  In case of our pal Jonah, the absence of alcohol in his life for a couple of days may have heightened his resolve and made him a wee bit testy for anything that gets between him and something with a kick.  Think of it like those stories about mothers flipping over cars from adrenaline alone when their child is trapped, expect replace the toddler with a bottle of scotch and the soccer mom with an ill-tempered guy with some significant plastic surgery challenges.  

Factoring in the alcohol, I am going to have to side with Mr. Hex.