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Mandolin ([personal profile] mandolin) wrote2007-08-15 08:35 am
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"You still read comics at your age?"

...yes.

Note to self: read [livejournal.com profile] scans_daily with care and with the expectation that it will COMPEL YOU TO SPEND MORE MONEY. I have finally given in and started looking for the TPBs of the new Blue Beetle, and it's primarily the fault of this post. (WARNING: Spoilers for BB #16, image-heavy, and do not drink anything while reading if you value your monitor.)

Also, no spoilers, but Amazing Spider-Girl #11 has officially made my brain try to escape out my ear. (WTF, DeFalco? Seriously, WTF?)

[identity profile] marag.livejournal.com 2007-08-15 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Why in the world did I stop reading this comic and yet bought a few issues of Countdown? Why? Why?

Note to self: Stop buying Green Arrow and start buying Blue Beetle.

[identity profile] weirdweb.livejournal.com 2007-08-15 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just boggling over the fact that it took me a YEAR to discover it!

(Of course, that's because I tried and failed to make sense of Infinite Crisis and just threw up my hands early on, but that's another ramble entirely.)

So is GA really going downhill? I stopped buying it right before it jumped to OYL.
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[identity profile] irenak.livejournal.com 2007-08-15 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Blue Beetle is like a little piece of comics heaven. There's Dentist!Jaime and his awesome, awesome parents and Brenda and Guy Gardner being both crazy *and* awesome and Life on Mars jokes. It's fabulous.

[identity profile] violetbloom.livejournal.com 2007-08-15 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
A dentist... *shakes head*

[identity profile] marag.livejournal.com 2007-08-15 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno, I love Connor and Mia and Ollie, but I'm just not feeling the love right now. I think I'm weirded out by the Ollie/Dinah thing.

[identity profile] kevenn.livejournal.com 2007-08-15 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That was actually the best issue of the series so far. :)

Actually, the All-New Atom is REALLY good too. Last issue had a dead Hitler with a jet pack leading an army of damned souls. Can't get much better than that! :D

[identity profile] jennies.livejournal.com 2007-08-15 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! :D


I have no idea who Blue Beetle is, but I find that scan endlessly amusing.

(Possibly b/c I hold a deep-seated belief that dentists are evil. ^_^;)

[identity profile] marielogan.livejournal.com 2007-08-16 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
To quote Meat, "you took the words right out of my mouth"

Evil dentists. :))

[identity profile] jennies.livejournal.com 2007-08-16 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
Really, it surprises me that one doesn't see them more often. Somewhere between the drills and white coats, they're like mad scientists with power tools.

Sadistic mad scientists with power tools. @_@;

[identity profile] weirdweb.livejournal.com 2007-08-16 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
*is now humming "Leader of the Plaque"* XD

[identity profile] jennies.livejournal.com 2007-08-16 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The creativity demons, delightful souls that they are, have immediately chimed in, singing backup.

They have replaced the engine revs with the high-pitched whirring of a dental drill.

YOU ARE DANGEROUS.

[identity profile] weirdweb.livejournal.com 2007-08-16 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't blame me, blame Steve Martin. :)

[identity profile] weirdweb.livejournal.com 2007-08-16 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The really amusing part? From what I've read, it's in character.

You just want to pat Jaime on the head, really.

[identity profile] weirdweb.livejournal.com 2007-08-16 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ollie/Dinah thing? ...no, I don't want to know how the writers are screwing them up.

[identity profile] weirdweb.livejournal.com 2007-08-16 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
THAT'S what the "I dreamed I was a cop in 1973" panel was referring to! I laughed, but I couldn't put my finger on why!

(Never seen the show, but one of the RPs I'm in has a Sam Tyler, so I know the basic idea.)

[identity profile] marag.livejournal.com 2007-08-17 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
::sigh:: Oh, you really really don't.

Archie

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