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shadowkatFeeling lonely, friendless and bummed out today, so if anyone has any spare cyber hugs? I could really use them. [The risk of asking for hugs...is what if you don't get them? Then you feel even lonilier than when you asked.]
Made the mistake of giving into a craving for reeses peanut butter cups - which really did not agree with me. Not sure why. They aren't supposed to have gluten in them. Could also be the weather that's affecting me. We had a brutal storm last night and today, the clouds are hanging heaving, like dead weights in the air, wanting to pop open and playing havoc with my head (dull throb behind the right temple. Does however make for a decent sunset.
Read the Angel comic last night - issue 37 or 38, plotted by Bill Willingham, but written by Mariah Huegher and David something or other. It wasn't bad, but I couldn't help but laugh at the cheesy plot. The Angel comics make the Buffy ones look like they were written and plotted by Shakespeare in comparison (okay Shakespeare by way of Samuel Beckett, but whatever). Although, at least Angel is more or less as I remember him and not a lobotomized douchebag, Spike however...is a bit too, I'm not sure what the word is? Whiny? Snark granted is hard to do well, but it's not that hard.
Here's the plot, as far as I can figure: Spike still has his soul, but a parasite that attaches itself to souls attached itself to Spike's when he came back from being a ghost. It got activated after Spike was in hell - something about being in hell activated the parasite - which affected his moral judgment and is the reason he's been acting out of character. It's easy enough to fix. Now how's that for an imaginative explanation for out of character behavior? Also does have a nifty bit of dialogue, where Spike tells a judgmental Angel - that he hasn't exactly done anything horribly evil - like kill someone's girlfriend or stalk little blond girls. LOL! The art is sort of cartoonish (reminds me of a Saturday morning cartoon at any rate), and they have these thought boxes that get confusing, because it's not clear except through context which character is talking. (ie. there's no visual clues, just textual ones.) Other than that? I was entertained. Found it hilarious in places. Also quite campy and ludicrious. Shame it's not better - because it reminded me of how much I missed the Spike/Angel relationship - which remains amongst my favorite bro-romances of all time. (Although shouldn't be too critical - I have a feeling I'd feel the same way about the X-men comics sitting in my bedroom should I ever choose to re-read them.)
Made the mistake of giving into a craving for reeses peanut butter cups - which really did not agree with me. Not sure why. They aren't supposed to have gluten in them. Could also be the weather that's affecting me. We had a brutal storm last night and today, the clouds are hanging heaving, like dead weights in the air, wanting to pop open and playing havoc with my head (dull throb behind the right temple. Does however make for a decent sunset.
Read the Angel comic last night - issue 37 or 38, plotted by Bill Willingham, but written by Mariah Huegher and David something or other. It wasn't bad, but I couldn't help but laugh at the cheesy plot. The Angel comics make the Buffy ones look like they were written and plotted by Shakespeare in comparison (okay Shakespeare by way of Samuel Beckett, but whatever). Although, at least Angel is more or less as I remember him and not a lobotomized douchebag, Spike however...is a bit too, I'm not sure what the word is? Whiny? Snark granted is hard to do well, but it's not that hard.
Here's the plot, as far as I can figure: Spike still has his soul, but a parasite that attaches itself to souls attached itself to Spike's when he came back from being a ghost. It got activated after Spike was in hell - something about being in hell activated the parasite - which affected his moral judgment and is the reason he's been acting out of character. It's easy enough to fix. Now how's that for an imaginative explanation for out of character behavior? Also does have a nifty bit of dialogue, where Spike tells a judgmental Angel - that he hasn't exactly done anything horribly evil - like kill someone's girlfriend or stalk little blond girls. LOL! The art is sort of cartoonish (reminds me of a Saturday morning cartoon at any rate), and they have these thought boxes that get confusing, because it's not clear except through context which character is talking. (ie. there's no visual clues, just textual ones.) Other than that? I was entertained. Found it hilarious in places. Also quite campy and ludicrious. Shame it's not better - because it reminded me of how much I missed the Spike/Angel relationship - which remains amongst my favorite bro-romances of all time. (Although shouldn't be too critical - I have a feeling I'd feel the same way about the X-men comics sitting in my bedroom should I ever choose to re-read them.)
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What are these better peanut butter cups? I must have them!
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Date: 2010-10-12 11:13 pm (UTC)So, a parasite attached to Spike's soul makes him act OOC, eh? Any chance that parasite migrated to Angel's soul somewhere between IDW and S8? And then spread to Buffy's soul? And possibly everyone else in S8 (except Spike, who obviously would be immune, having been afflicted before)? 'Cause that would sure explain A LOT.
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:19 pm (UTC)BIG {{hugs}}
Date: 2010-10-12 11:09 pm (UTC)depend on it.
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:24 pm (UTC)Except - we get responses back almost instantaneously. Within minutes, sometimes hours. So in some respects it is far more gratifying than letters - at least in that respect.
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Date: 2010-10-13 12:43 am (UTC)And boy that Willingham comic sucks so bad!
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:34 pm (UTC)Thanks for the hugs.
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Date: 2010-10-13 03:15 am (UTC)P.S. I haven't said so, mainly because I'm usually a week behind, but I've liked reading your Mad Men recaps lately!
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Date: 2010-10-13 03:42 am (UTC)Something to make you feel better, a photo tweeted by Brian Lynch from Japan http://yfrog.com/2hzxgwj
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Date: 2010-10-13 03:56 am (UTC)*hugs*
The Angel comic is getting better? Oh great, now the universe will explode or something in retribution.
( Hey! I don't want to explode ! )
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:09 pm (UTC)The writers have changed - Williams is still around doing his Eddie Hope story, but Willingham has left the building, with Mariah and David something scripting what is left of his plot.
The arc that is supposed to link Angel to the Buffy comics is
starting after this one is completed, which should be around issue 40 or thereabouts. In other words, by the time Buffy S8 is over, we'll be getting the whole Angel back-story from IDW's pov or thereabouts. I've no clue. The only thing funkier than the comic plots is the biz arrangements between IDW and DH.
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Date: 2010-10-13 05:24 am (UTC)Big
Hugs
You are not friendless, but I'm sorry you're feeling that way.
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Date: 2010-10-13 05:44 am (UTC)Hope you'll be feeling better soon.
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Date: 2010-10-13 06:43 am (UTC)Next issue is the start of the final arc to tie in with the Buffy comics, isn't it?
Also the Brian Lynch Spike comic starts this week I think: according to my local comic shop's hand-out I think it's now officially an eight-issue miniseries.
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:16 pm (UTC)No, I think we have two more issues to go. But I could be wrong.
This issue ended on a cliff-hanger. (Guess who has been killed again? Or at the least presumed dead? Connor. But I wouldn't grieve just yet...they've brought him back before.)
Yep, according to my pals online - the Lynch comic is due out the 13th. (Today). I'll most likely try to pick it up on Sunday.
Eight issues? Dang. I was hoping for at least 12. So not fair.
Although at least it will be tight, well paced, and not drag out forever like another comic book series.... :-)
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:29 pm (UTC)Sigh. Angel comic. So much wasted potential. And it gets 40 issues, while Lynch's Spike comic only gets 8, so not fair.
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:17 pm (UTC)Hope it'll get better soon, I know these feelings all too well.
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Date: 2010-10-13 04:28 pm (UTC)Greatly appreciated!
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