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February 4, 2009 11:54 pm You're dead-on Ron. So much so that everyone should start calling you "Dead-On Ron", at least when it comes to the X-Universe. I had much the same reaction to Madrox absorbing the baby. I was feeling so good and a little choked up during the scene with the naming of the baby, with Siryn realizing that Banshee was actually dead and all that, and then... (they really should assign one of those trademark Marvel sound effects to Madrox absorbing a dupe, like "snikt", "thwip", or "bamf"). Just when this book was showing the interpersonal drama and interaction that made me fall in love with it during the first six issues, Peter David goes and sucks it all away from me. I'm still reading with the hope that it turns around, but it's officially on the chopping block (which is really difficult for me when I've been reading a book from issue 1).

February 3, 2009 3:36 pm Dance til Tomorrow is the best digest sized book I own. It's definitely adult, but the story is awesome.

February 2, 2009 11:36 am Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this review. It really helped me grasp things that I didn't pick up on myself during any of my multiple readings of this issue. I even read it once on the crapper so I could reeeally focus, to no avail.

February 2, 2009 12:37 am

This trailer left me with the exact same feelings as the trailer for Watchmen:

 Dread, apprehension, and a faint glimmer of hopefullness...

January 29, 2009 1:27 pm

I love the name "Fool's Gold Age" Jim.

Other possible names not in the "metals" theme?

-Pointless Costume Redesign Age

-Trenchcoats and Ponytails Age (can be shortened to TP Age...get it? Like toilet paper?)

-Age of Embarrassment

-The (should be) Forgotten Age

January 29, 2009 12:37 pm

Indeed. I suppose that'll have to do.

My pulls by publisher (out of 59 titles)

Marvel: %50

DC: %5

Image: %16

Vertigo: %8

Other (Dynamite, IDW, WildStorm, Dark Horse, and Icon, etc.): %21

January 29, 2009 12:19 pm

What genre is Fear Agent, would you say? On an issue to issue basis, it seems to bounce around between war, sci fi, and western. I suppose the overriding genre would be scifi.

And I guess Dan Dare would have been too, but at the same time, it was the best war story of 2008 in my opinion, which would make me want to classify as such.

What do you think?

January 26, 2009 11:45 pm Coolest tshirts ever! I will wear them both proudly!

January 26, 2009 12:34 am

Tottally off topic, but...

All this talk about the AFI top 100 and people rebuking it reminds me of Rolling Stone's recent "100 Greatest Signer's of all time" list. Now THAT was a BS list. Sinatra didn't appear on it at all, and Bob Dylan was in the top 10. Say what you want about Dylan, but he was not a good singer. Great lyrics, great songwriting, but crappy singer.

January 24, 2009 1:52 pm I didn't have any problems following that at all. And it makes sense to me that he would use a gun. After all, he had just been tortured by a GOD! I think I'd bend my prinicples a bit too at that point.