Showing my mainstream fanboy roots

[avram]

I usually pick up the new week’s comics on the same day that they’re first available for purchase: Wednesday. (I’ve read about some of you holding off till the weekend to do your comics shopping, and I don’t know how you stand it.) This week there was a holiday and a blizzard, so I didn’t expect new comics on Wednesday, so I stopped off at Jim Hanley’s on the way to Games Club last night. The only thing I get I was expecting was the new issue of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men, but I also saw the fourth collection of Mark Millar’s Ultimate X-Men, so it was all X-Men day for me.

I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m liking both these takes on the characters a whole lot. Neither is without flaw, but both have enough good stuff going on that I finish them feeling satisfied. Millar’s doing a great job recreating the old characters in modern times, and Morrison is pushing them into new conceptual territory and bringing in new elements.

Two petty gripes: Hey, Mark, Xavier Academy’s a school, so wouldn’t it have been cooler to give it an edu domain? Say, xavier.edu instead of x-men.com? Also, that map table Cyclops was looking at looked electronic; shouldn’t it have gone all spazzy when Kitty phased up through it?

Comments

[scottbateman.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't you be reading SCAN...? :-)

[avram]

I totally forgot to look for that. Would a large comics shop, with a healthy selection of alternative titles and minicomics, have it, d'ya think?

What I really should be doing is working on my own damn stuff.

[scottbateman.livejournal.com]

No, because I haven't been able to get any kind of distribution for SCAN yet. Maybe eventually. In the meantime, there's the ol' web site.

[redbird]

To get a .edu you have to be a four-year college or university: high schools and community colleges can't get them. (My alma mater sneaks in as a subdomain of hunter.cuny.edu, but most schools are in places like .k12.<state>.us.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Not so much. True most places, but MY Alma Mater has an edu. (Though ultimately, I suspect that my elementary alma mater is your HS).

xacad.edu? xavier.edu is already taken by Xavier University.

[avram]

Bronx Science also has an edu, nothing sneaky about it.

Isn't the full name something like "Xavier Academy for Gifted Children"? Maybe xagc.edu?