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[stefbug]

We found it.

We found my notebook.

I could scream with joy. Several months worth of character notes, and they were hidden under several issues of Cable & Deadpool.

Thank whoever is listening that I found them.

Comments

[midnightvoyager]

I happen to know which because of Scans_Daily. >_> Haven't been actually buying comics for a while. Our local stores don't ever bloody stock new ones until way after they're new. Jerks. *headdesk*

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

I know now. I braved the heat to get down to my local comic book shop, where comicbook-guy already had the ones I wanted out waiting for me (it's deliveries day today). I love being predicatable.

And it was option C ftw! And ah, subtext :)

I only buy the ones I'm really interested in, the rest I get through DCP.

[midnightvoyager]

My favorite part is that Wolverine decapitated him just to get him out of the way for a minute.

I mean, just say that out loud to someone. "Oh yeah, he just decapitated him to get him out of the way for a minute so he could-" "Wait, what!?"

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

Kaz isn't back from work yet, so I can't share that particular gem with her. Yet. I can't wait to see the look on her face when I do.

You know, last month was a bad month for Wolverine decapitating people. I wonder if it was planned that way?

[midnightvoyager]

He's decapitated more people?

The stuff that happens when I stop buying comics for a while...

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

He decapitated Creed. In last month's issue of Wolverine. Pissed me off something wicked too.

Basically Creed was retarded at that point, to the stage where he was basically a terrified kitty cat. Logan chopped his arm off with the Muramasa blade, which disables healing factors, and then taunted Creed, 'offering' him a chance to stop Logan from killing him. Despite how far he'd been retarded and made feral Creed managed to get out the words "kill me", so Logan chopped his head off. Then, instead of following his instinct/honor and burrying Creed he just left the body to the wolves.

Can you tell I'm a Creed fan?

[midnightvoyager]

...guh...? The hell!? There is... so much wrong with that summary that I can't even begin to process it. *HEADDESK*

This is part of why I stopped buying.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thats pretty much what I did. Except my face looked more like Remy's up there and it involved a lot more cursing and swearing. Worse thing is, I knew it was coming. The 4 issues leading up to it had pretty much been one big double-paged fight scene and the story arc was being toted as the last battle Wolverine vs Sabretooth, with only one of them walking away. Too much to hope that the runt would bite it really.

I didn't buy it, luckily. I hardly buy anything now, not after they mutilated my fave character last year (Gambit), exiled another to New Excalibur where they essentially mutilated her for a while (Sage) and shat all over another one (Creed). Mike Carey has made me start buying X-Men again, and I've stuck with New X-Men, but other than C&D and occasionally X-Factor and Astonishing, that's about it.

[midnightvoyager]

Wolverine's always been my favorite. Ehe. If I saw the hype, I'd have hated it either way, as I wouldn't want either to die. (And I knew they'd handle it poorly)

Civil War made me stop buying most things. Blah.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

I used to like Wolverine. I still do when he's written well. Lately though he's been everywhere, and not written too well either.

House of M was my first indication that things were going to go down hill rapidly. What sucks the most is that I'd just gotten back into comics at that point as well. The whole Blood of Apocalypse arc in X-Men made me want to hunt the writers down and smack them about, hard. And Civil War was just the nail in the coffin.

I've been very cautious about buying again, but what I'd read of Carey's X-Men got me hooked and I was still buying New X-Men, so I went from there. And of course I'm now having to pick up the trades of Cable and Deadpool, just because Deadpool is made of win.

[midnightvoyager]

Oh, well-written is assumed when I ask if people like a character. Heh.

I lengthened my hiatus from reading the X-Books when Emma Frost became one of the main "ALWAYS THERE" group. I... hate her with the fire of a thousand suns. And Cyclops is being written more wrong than usual lately...

And I don't like feline Beast much either. I mean... arbitrary change due to boredom. WTF?

... and the ruining of Gambit, yes.

And... bleh, I could go on.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

I kinda like the way Cyke is being written at the moment, especially in Astonishing. I like him a little edgier, a little more jaded and much more dark. It's nice to see the stick out of his ass.

Emma is a difficult one. She does wind me up, I'll admit, because she's so damn bitchy, often without any point to it. However there have been a few shining moments - like when she takes away this one villain's only happy memory because the villain was threatening X-23 and hurting the other students to get to her. It was one of the few times that I actually liked the character. She was a much better villainess IMHO.

Feline Beast really is a WTF moment. And they've just changed his uniform so he looks even dumber. It basically looks now like he's got his trousers pulled up to his armpits with no top on. *headdead*

I was spitting nails over the whole Deathbit thing. Carey is doing good things with bringing Gambit back though, asskicking and sexy and with that sense of humour that was one of the things that drew me to the character in the first place.

Yeah, I could go on as well. And do, frequently. I feel sorry for Kaz sometimes because she has to put up with it all.

[midnightvoyager]

Making all the characters edgy makes none of them edgy. However, people couldn't write Cyclops and his stick very well. I'd like to see the stick back and a person who knows how to write a character like that. Frankly, if he was done well, Stick-clops could be a great character, even if not one of my favorites.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

You have a very good point there. Most people didn't manage to do Cyke very well, especially stick-boy Cyke. I guess I want it both ways, a Cyke who has a stick but knows how to pull it out and beat someone to death with it when he needs to.

[midnightvoyager]

See, that would be a well-written Cyc. I always saw him as having a sense of humor so dry that it still surprises people every time he makes a joke. I could get to like that.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

I think that's a little bit like they're trying to write him in Astonishing, although they only succeeded in one issue.

I tend to go for that sort of Cyke if I'm writing fanfic with him in it, now that I'm out of my loathing him phase, although I've not got any with him that way completed yet.

[midnightvoyager]

I loathed him until I realized it was just the crap characterization I was seeing at that time. Heh.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I used to hate the fact that he was such a stuck-up boyscout who would blindly follow Chuck's dream no matter what. Then, like you, I realised that most of that was crap characterisation and he could be such a good character if he was given the room to grow a little.

Saying that, in the upcoming Messiah CompleX crossover they're saying that he's going to get the chance to be the leader he was always meant to be, so maybe we'll see him written a little better there.

And he managed the dry joking thing in X-Men #202, even if it was just to Emma.

[midnightvoyager]

Yeah, that'd be my problem there. Emma is like a rotten fruit. Put her in with anything else and it starts to rot as well. She seems to exist just to be overly bitchy, act like she's sooo awesome, and be liek sooo beautiful and near naked. Cyc, dear, you can do so much better than that...

*headdesk. kathud*

They like finding new ways to use that X, huh? I've literally been spending my time as far away from the X-books as possible since this mess, so I have no idea of anything that happened. I think when she started -running the school- was the last coffin nail there.

But... I still have Deadpool and Spider-man scans frames to cheer me up.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

Yep, they're finding new and unimaginative ways to use the X every day. It does kinda make one want to headdesk until it all goes away.

One of the funniest things about Emma is that she's supposedly a therapist. How, when all she seems to think about is herself?

I find I only like her when she is dealing with the children that she teaches, since there seems to be a whole different side to her there.

Deadpool is enough to cheer anyone up. If I'm having a bad day I break out the Deadpool. I especially like his rendition of the Shatner voice. Must... Use... Shatner voice... to get... somewhere... else...

[midnightvoyager]

God, Emma as a therapist would screw up so many kids...

When she's with kids she teaches, sometimes, it seems like she's totally a different character. It just doesn't... mesh in right.

And Deadpool is instant cheer. He's like humanoid ice cream!

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

Yup.

And she does sex therapy. She tried with Remy and Rogue. It was... ... ... interesting is the best word I can come up with.

I think the problem is that too many writers are trying to keep her as the bitchy white queen, which is all good except she isn't the white queen anymore, and any growth (the whole kids things) then doesn't fit because it's followed almost immediatly by the bitchyness.

Personally I read it like she's hiding how much she cares for the kids because she doesn't want to be vulnerable at all (fits in with her past). It's the only was I can stand her as a 'hero'.

Deadpool is humanoid chocolate, he even melted like it once :lol:

[midnightvoyager]

...

I think you just killed my brain. Sex... ther... *dies*

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Ooops... my bad.

Hug?

[midnightvoyager]

...ooo, pretty Gambit. *distracted by the shiny, thus saving her brain*

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

I have a whole website of pretty Gambit, it's what always manages to save my brain. That is when the updates to it aren't breaking my brain.

*stares at shiny bumblebee* I really need to go and see that before they stop showing it.

[midnightvoyager]

Transformers and Stardust both are SO worth seeing.

And Bumblebee is far cuter than a large, killer, sentient robot war-hero has any right to be.

His doors fold back like wings. And they -FLUTTER-!

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

I really want to see Stardust, but it doesn't come out over here until Novemeber/December time. Which is so very annoying.

I'm probably going to go and see Transformers on Saturday if they're still showing it, since Kaz has to work :(

The flutter. How cool is that :)

[midnightvoyager]

He just looks so... so... cuddly!

And Stardust is hilarious. It's even better than the book. Neil Gaiman essentially went "I wish I did ____" and did all of that in the movie.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

Cuddly?

I guess a huge kiler robot can be considered cuddly by some o_0

I'm waiting with baited breath for Stardust. I've heard nothing but good reviews for it and I've always loved Gaiman's stuff.

Have you seen Mirrormask?

[midnightvoyager]

You... you have to see it to get it. He just is cute and cuddly. It's inexplicable. I've read some of the movie back-story-ish stuff... He led a group that helped hold off Megatron until the Allspark thingie could be shot off the planet. He literally stood face to face with Megatron and others just to hold them back.

...

And he's SO DAMN CUTE! He has an expression with shiny sad puppy eyes that could melt Antarctica.

Ahem. No, I haven't seen Mirrormask before. But Stardust... so worth seeing. I'm gonna try to see it again Saturday.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'll go see it. It's definitly showing on Saturday, so I'll go and see it then.

He was always my fave in the old cartoon I have to admit. Such a brave little toaster... erm, yeah.

Mirrormask is also worth seeing. It's another Gaiman film, and incrediably surreal.

Stardust was on my list of films to see when I saw the trailer before watching Hairspray. Love that film too.

[midnightvoyager]

Then I have done my duty to spread the "awwwcute". *bows*