"Same Difference" finished

I’ve linked to it before, but now Derek Kim has finished the sixteenth and final part of Same Difference, one of his online comics. Really great stuff, go read it.

Showing my mainstream fanboy roots

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?