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?