Back among the fannish

[selenak]

Back from a gruelling week of travelling work, and the first thing I did upon coming back was to finally watch the shiny new Serenity trailer. Note to self: must rewatch Firefly DVDs at once, to still renewed pangs of frustrated love as well as new fear the movie won't make it to Germany for a good long while. But! Away with such fears. TRAILER! Ah, to hear that sparkling Whedonian dialogue again spoken out loud, by these actors... it's a good time to be a fan.

My cup of Joss goodness runneth over, for I also aquired (again, finally) Astonishing X-Men #9. If I have one complaint, it's that this is the second issue in which there is very little Emma, but this is nitpicking and simply because she is my favourite character. Otherwise, I loved. Only Joss would define an artificial intelligence achieving sentience as being sparked by contradiction, specifically the contradiction between an innate desire and an external (called parental, in case we don't get it) programming. Oh, Joss, you and your Daddy issues. Having Kitty and the new sentient being talk to each other, i.e. verbal battle instead of duking it out gets bonus point. Now, who is that on the last panel? This is where my drawback of coming to the fandom via the movieverse shows up again, because I guess I'm supposed to recognize her, or am I?

And, last but not least, I bought Angel's fifth season. Devoting myself to RL issues in the next week will be tough, because there are some great goings-on in the theatrical_muse version of the Jossverse as well. And I must finally catch up with my mail...

Comments

[thran.livejournal.com]

> Now, who is that on the last panel? This is where my drawback of coming to the fandom
> via the movieverse shows up again, because I guess I'm supposed to recognize her, or am

Huh. I'm not sure about that either, as my knowledge of the canon is spotty at best. Curious... I loved the cover of #9, though. Skulls!

On a related note, have you read any of Straczinski's comic efforts? I don't remember if you've talked about that in the past.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The skulls were cool. Oh yeah.*g*

Yes, I've read several, and did post about. Short version of those JMS-written oeuvres I've read:

His Amazing Spiderman run: is cool. On a level with what Joss does with the X-Men, i.e. he doesn't invent that universe a new, but he shows he's a fan and does some great character depth things. Also, there is a Kosh clone. *g*

Midnight Nation: Worth reading, obvious social message, female character a bit too... too... well, Delenn without the war guilt that makes Delenn flawed and interesting. Male character more like Garibaldi, interestingly enough.

Supreme Power: Now that's the best thing he did (of what I've read) since B5. Wow. Fantastic. Dark. Twisted. Brainy. And in other news? Wow. That's what my posts were about.

Rising Stars: Has a similar theme to Supreme Power, but is not quite as good (is however now finished, as opposed to SP). Definitely worth reading, with two drawbacks - a main character with the initials JS who takes himself far too seriously, and (with one exception) only one-dimensional villains. Excellent flawed good guys, though.

[searose.livejournal.com]

The individual on the last page of the issue kind of looks like a female version of Warlock... and that's real 'old skool' X-Men stuff. But, umm, extraterrestrial intelligent war machines that can assume humanoid form (or not). Though I thought they were only 'father'/'son' varieties?

I'm probably waaay wrong, but Whedon's professed fave period of X-Men coincides with the intro of Warlock, so it's a weak 'maybe'. The attractive thing about the Warlock race is the 'child' must kill the 'parent' (or be killed) as a rite of passage. Think that would appeal to Whedon as a foundation?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that looks like it would appeal to him. The Danger Room entity did say "Our Miss Frost would call it a mutation. I dislike that word. It's father's word."

[harshday.livejournal.com]

Emma Frost will always be a comic character that if turned into a movie would be sheer ruined. I mean who can they cast? A Kirsten Dunst, at BEST a Scarlett Johannson? *swoon*. But, anyways I thought I'd shed light on how much Emma is an amazing character.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Emma is. How about Cate Blanchett?

[harshday.livejournal.com]

Maybe as an older Emma. I just see Cate playing roles of women a little later like 35-50.