Last Question for Jan Talking Meme: "Analyze Spike's IDW comics supporting cast."

This is the last question/assignment that I received under the January Talking Meme:

January 28:curiouswolf asked me to Analyze Spike's IDW comics supporting cast.

Eh, before I attempt this...I'm linking you to all the meta that I wrote on Buffy and Angel and the respective comics : 1. Buffy and Comics Meta and 2. Angel and Comics Meta.

I reviewed my posts on the comics and realized, no, even back then I didn't find the supporting characters worth analyzing. I did enjoy comics more though. Weird how tastes change.

Anyhow...I'm narrowing this down to the Spike Comic series. (not Spike:After the Fall, Spike:Shadow Puppets, or Spike: Asylum) Mainly because Lynch liked to create his own characters and there are a lot of them. The memorable ones, I'll discuss.
( my analysis of the IDW Comics Spike supporting characters )

Not my best analysis...but I hope it answered the question or was somewhat interesting at least.

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Have you ever read something in a novel that reached out and grabbed you? Or spoke to you? Expressing almost perfectly some of your own feelings? Read this lovely passage last night on writing or rather on pondering the need to write - it's from Margaret Atwood's award winning novel The Blind Assassin:

I've written nothing for the past week. I lost the heart for it. Why set down such melancholy events? But I've begun again, I notice. I've taken up my black scrawl; it unwinds in a long dark thread of ink across the page, tangled but legible. Do I have some notion of leaving a signature, after all? After all I've done to avoid it, "Iris, her mark", however truncated: initials chalked on the sidewalk, or a pirate's X on the map, revealing the beach where the treasure is buried.

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get?

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

-Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin.

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1. The weather is wonky in the US.

* CJ Cherryh on Good Reads is complaining that it's not snowing where she is. I love her quote:

Such a sleepy, disgusting winter…WE want the snow. The East Coast and South…

…generally don’t.

We have snowplows. We have coats. We’re ready for this stuff.

Our sky is grey and the trees are leafless and the place is constantly sodden with condensation that should be frozen.

* Alaska is warmer than Minnesota.[ETA: apparently it's supposed to be...although -50 in Minnesota is pushing it.] So too is Sweden and Austria apparently.

* Antartica is warmer than Detroit and Chicago.[ETA: supposed to be, but again...negative temps are pushing it.]

* Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina are cancelling school and got in grid-lock due to a freak snow-storm, which they never get, while upstate NY hasn't gotten enough snow to ski.
Beacon's got hardly any this year.

Here? It's approximately 14 degrees. Tomorrow high of 18, with snow. Then on Sat, we'll get up to 40 degrees and it will be practically balmy.

2. Hee, watching the State of the Union address, and the President is telling businesses across the country to give America a raise. (He already told the MTA to do it.) And to grant equal pay for women (not a problem for me, I work for the government - we get equal pay.)

Will state - he's a decent speaker and rather upbeat.

3. Saw Downton Abbey - which in some respects I prefer to last season (no Matthew and not as grim or confusing). But the Anna/Bates storyline is beyond cliche, offensive as all get out, and has to go.

( spoilers )