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alexsarll"Look, no one wants you to come because you talk about ladders all the time."
"But it's a ladder party!"
The idea of someone being too ladder-happy to attend ladder parties was a wise and wonderful image, and just one of the sketches which rendered The All-Star Comedy Show much better than I'd expected. Of course this may be because, after last week's episode (which I've yet to see) received such uniformly awful reviews, anything even slightly mirthful made for a pleasant surprise.
That aside, I spent most of last night charging the new lifeline and reading comics. Respectable comics. The sort that call themselves 'illustrated novels' so that grown-ups can read them and grown-up papers can write about them. Craig Thompson's Blankets is an autobiography of sorts, about first love, growing up with pious parents, pretending your bed is a ship when you're little...the sort of thing which makes for a good bildungsroman. And yes, it's well-written, and yes, it's beautifully drawn, and yes, it's very moving. But it's no Flex Mentallo. And it saddens me that there are thousands of people out there who can accept this, because it has a lovelorn couple in the snow on the front, and would never give that another chance, because it has a muscleman in leopardskin posing pouch shouting "YOU! BUY THIS COMIC NOW OR THE EARTH IS DOOMED!" at the potential reader.
Similarly, the 'seminal' &c Love and Rockets is heartwarming and wistful and lovely in precisely the sort of way Northern Exposure used to be, rather than achieving any emotional effect of true power such as, for instance, Grant Morrison's run on Justice League.
On which note, I can strongly recommend She-Hulk's new series to anyone who liked the collisions of superheroics and law in Alan Moore's Top Ten. It's marred by pathetic human wish-fulfillment at times, but otherwise extremely entertaining. And I'm not just saying this because I have a thing for bright green girls. Thought that may be a contributory factor.
Today's my last day paid, so I really ought to do a poll, but I can't think of any.
"But it's a ladder party!"
The idea of someone being too ladder-happy to attend ladder parties was a wise and wonderful image, and just one of the sketches which rendered The All-Star Comedy Show much better than I'd expected. Of course this may be because, after last week's episode (which I've yet to see) received such uniformly awful reviews, anything even slightly mirthful made for a pleasant surprise.
That aside, I spent most of last night charging the new lifeline and reading comics. Respectable comics. The sort that call themselves 'illustrated novels' so that grown-ups can read them and grown-up papers can write about them. Craig Thompson's Blankets is an autobiography of sorts, about first love, growing up with pious parents, pretending your bed is a ship when you're little...the sort of thing which makes for a good bildungsroman. And yes, it's well-written, and yes, it's beautifully drawn, and yes, it's very moving. But it's no Flex Mentallo. And it saddens me that there are thousands of people out there who can accept this, because it has a lovelorn couple in the snow on the front, and would never give that another chance, because it has a muscleman in leopardskin posing pouch shouting "YOU! BUY THIS COMIC NOW OR THE EARTH IS DOOMED!" at the potential reader.
Similarly, the 'seminal' &c Love and Rockets is heartwarming and wistful and lovely in precisely the sort of way Northern Exposure used to be, rather than achieving any emotional effect of true power such as, for instance, Grant Morrison's run on Justice League.
On which note, I can strongly recommend She-Hulk's new series to anyone who liked the collisions of superheroics and law in Alan Moore's Top Ten. It's marred by pathetic human wish-fulfillment at times, but otherwise extremely entertaining. And I'm not just saying this because I have a thing for bright green girls. Thought that may be a contributory factor.
Today's my last day paid, so I really ought to do a poll, but I can't think of any.
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Date: 2004-05-07 11:40 am (UTC)Caught the end of yesterday's. (Heh, ladders.)
Am now curious about the first one.
Wildly disparate social circles have been seen explaining the glory that is the boffinVbrainbox (?) distinction. I like the idea of that as a great unifier. Only I didnae see it meself.
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Date: 2004-05-07 05:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-07 05:45 am (UTC)She-Hulk just got asked to move out of Avengers Mansion because her parties were affecting its structural integrity. And got one of her courtroom verdicts overturned because saving the world was held likely to unduly influence the jury.
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Date: 2004-05-07 06:10 am (UTC)simon williams trying to overturn the holywoods prejudises and stuff and have an acting career that was like more than just a steriotype action hero, while at the same time trying to live down the shame of having appeared in damage control the movie (which was the basis of one of the damage control limited series and the fact that it was acknowleged was a lovly touch imho)
then he go and dies in a huge supprise which was sad
THEN THE FUNKING BRING HIM BACK
everything since then was a sacralidge and should be ingored..........
the she-hulk thing sounds like the same thing only with she hulk.....
and yes I *so* would......
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Date: 2004-05-07 07:15 am (UTC)b) the whole wonderman/vision thing was I saw post him coming back from the dead was really really bad.........
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Date: 2004-05-07 06:35 am (UTC)both those words exist in norwegian, though (skadefryd and oppvekstroman), but norwegian is closer to german linguistically, anyway, so it makes more sense.