I should be working

[doyle]

I have astronomy homework that needs to be finished. Sadly, I have no idea how the mistaken classification of binary systems as single stars affects the main sequence of the H-R diagram, and my usual method of plugging the question into google and hoping for the best isn't working.

I'm studiously ignoring the wildfeed for this week's Buffy - some might say it's rather pointless, since I read the shooting script a month ago, but they might have changed something huge, for all I know, and I'm doing really well in being spoilerlite for Angel so I'll feel proud anyway. Okay? Okay.

I've found my replacement Buffy for when the series ends. The Spider-Man comics have been luring me in for a couple of months, and yesterday I picked up the first Ultimate Spider-Man graphic novel. I'm officially obsessed. I'm trying to resist heading downtown to buy the rest of the series, because having bought Angel DVDs and a kickass full-length leather coat this fortnight, I'm very poor indeed. And there's Buffy season 6 DVDs to come in 3 weeks. Oh, and having downloaded some Ghost of the Robot mp3s, I'm horrified to find I actually really like their music, meaning I have no excuse not to go and see them in London this June. Somebody save me a cardboard box to sleep in, please.

Speaking of Angel, I watched the episode The Price for the first time last night. My heart broke for my poor Wesley (who loves Angel so much. I mean, it's barely even subtext. Why couldn't that have been the love triangle instead of the Wes/Fred/Gunn thing?) Oh, and Loyalty is the most Hoyaylicious piece of television I've ever seen. And I watch Smallville. Baby Connor so had two daddies. (connorbeast suggested a Connor icon with the caption "I have two daddies. And they're both really hot." Might make that some time, when I kick the ass of this damn astronomy homework).

I'll shut up before this descends into a post on why Angel and Wesley would make the hottest couple on earth, but if anybody has a hundred bucks lying round, I wouldn't mind an A/W TWOP banner ad devoted to their love. Which is canon. In my world.

Comments

spiderman

[kissesago.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my comic shop guy (curse his bones) conned me into buying the first Ultimate Spider-Man trade and now I'm hooked. I've managed to resist the siren's call to go back for the rest so far, but only because I'm a poor penniless college student. sigh ;)

Re: spiderman

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

You and me both. I now have the first 3 volumes of the trade paperbacks (in two days!) They so rock. But be strong. Resist.

*squeaks* Squeee! Spideycomics!

[octopedingenue]

I picked up the first two trades of Ultimate Spider-Man, and now I'm just waiting for my X-Men subscriptions to run out so I can replace them with Ultimate Spidey. I'm not the greatest fan of the artist--all those scritchy black lines make me dizzy, and he has a tendency to do annoyingly odd closeups of faces during moments of heightened emotion...
[EXTREME CLOSEUP of Peter's eye]
PETER: "Mary..."
[*REALLY* EXTREME CLOSEUP of Peter's eye]
PETER: "I have something to tell you."
[EXTREME CLOSEUP of Mary Jane's eye]
MJ: "What?"
and so on, and so on...
Or something like that, anyway. *G* But the dialogue is dead-on. Spookily so. Following teenagers around the mall with a tape recorder, peoples? Dialogue is the hardest thing to sell to me in comics, so I'll follow this title faithfully, read the words quickly, and try not to look too hard at the pictures.

And on the subject of Spidey-comics, if naming J. Michael Straczynski as writer does not make you automatically bristle (as it does some people), I cannot praise his work with artist John Romita Jr. on The Amazing Spider-Man highly enough--after years of the title's sad flatness, together they've breathed back into it the angst, melodrama, and above all snarky humor that made me fall in love with Spidey when I was nine. Their Aunt May is a loving, intelligent woman whom I do not regularly wish Peter would strangle for the insurance money! They brought MJ back, and so far she shows no signs of being evil or a clone! (For a little while, before someone or other kills her again, at least!)

Re: *squeaks* Squeee! Spideycomics!

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've read the first 3 trade paperbacks of JMS's work (up to Till the Stars Turn Cold) and I love them. Aunt May in either Amazing Spider-Man or the Ultimate series is so much cooler than the original way her character was written, and Straczynski brought up a point that was really bugging me: this woman survived the senseless murder of her husband and managed to raise Peter alone. She can cope with finding out he's a superhero, for crying out loud, she's a lot tougher than she looks.

Want and need more Spider-Man...