X-men: people (fictional), comics
I started getting into comics in the early nineties, via my neighbors, right around the time that X-Men #1 (the Claremont / Jim Lee, multiple variant cover, top selling comic of all time one) came out. The X-men had cool mutant powers, and not only was there action, but there was also soap-operatic drama, and I liked that they were students (at one point) at a boarding school. The women were all drawn to be hot (which is par for the course for many comics), but they also kicked ass just as much as any other characters.
Then Jim Lee jumped ship to help create Image comics, so I stopped reading X-men and moved on to WildC.A.T.S.
I picked up reading X-men comics in the early 2000s, borrowing friends copies of the Grant Morrison run, and collecting X-treme X-Men (because it had Psylocke and Beast in it (though they killed her)) even though Claremont was past his prime by that point.
The X-men cartoons have all been pretty decent (Except the new one that has "Wolverine" in the title... I don't like Wolverine), and the first two X-men movies were not too bad either.
SEE ALSO: school fiction, Woodland
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
P - Purpose
Purpose: thing, concept
My purpose in life (beyond, actually probably even 'before,' passing on my genetic code) is to read all 17,000+ Peanuts comic strips in order. Not necessarily in one sitting (at least I don't think so, it might be at one sitting, I'll know when I get there), but in a short period of time. A year or two after I realized that this was my reason for existing Fantagraphics announced that they were publishing The Complete Peanuts in 25 volumes, 2 per year. The Halfway mark is crossed this month. This, then, gives me a timeline for my purposeful existence: I will complete my purpose in March of 2016.
I used to think that my pupose was to listen to every version of the song "Lie in Our Graves" (by Dave Matthews Band) that featured Bela Fleck on Banjo, but the interwebs made that one too easy to accomplish (I did it last september).
SEE ALSO: Peanuts, Minnesota, Comics
My purpose in life (beyond, actually probably even 'before,' passing on my genetic code) is to read all 17,000+ Peanuts comic strips in order. Not necessarily in one sitting (at least I don't think so, it might be at one sitting, I'll know when I get there), but in a short period of time. A year or two after I realized that this was my reason for existing Fantagraphics announced that they were publishing The Complete Peanuts in 25 volumes, 2 per year. The Halfway mark is crossed this month. This, then, gives me a timeline for my purposeful existence: I will complete my purpose in March of 2016.
I used to think that my pupose was to listen to every version of the song "Lie in Our Graves" (by Dave Matthews Band) that featured Bela Fleck on Banjo, but the interwebs made that one too easy to accomplish (I did it last september).
SEE ALSO: Peanuts, Minnesota, Comics
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
A - Aquaman
A - Aquaman
Even though he gets made fun of for having supposedly lame powers, I really liked Aquaman when I was a kid. He was easily the coolest of the Super-Friends, and my favorite superhero. Being able to talk to undersea animals (with cool telepathy that made a neat noise and looked like circles), and to breathe underwater were things that I really wished I could do (probably because I loved the idea of water and the sea, but was a non-to-poor swimmer). I also really liked The Flash (because he was fast).
When I lost one of my first teeth (possibly my very first), the (very generous) Tooth Fairy brought me an Aquaman action figure. When you squeezed the arms, it's legs did a flutter-kick.
Even though he gets made fun of for having supposedly lame powers, I really liked Aquaman when I was a kid. He was easily the coolest of the Super-Friends, and my favorite superhero. Being able to talk to undersea animals (with cool telepathy that made a neat noise and looked like circles), and to breathe underwater were things that I really wished I could do (probably because I loved the idea of water and the sea, but was a non-to-poor swimmer). I also really liked The Flash (because he was fast).
When I lost one of my first teeth (possibly my very first), the (very generous) Tooth Fairy brought me an Aquaman action figure. When you squeezed the arms, it's legs did a flutter-kick.
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