New Comic Day + Other Foo

[newnumber6]

This week I got one book:

Astonishing X-Men #24 (okay but this last arc's not worth the waiting)

Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.

Work was a pain. Late, and due to renovations it's a more annoying job even though the load's lighter.

Almost took the subway home (from the comic shop, anyway), due more to lateness than any tiredness, but I decided to press on. I'll need the fitness if I ever go on the long walk. Speaking of walking, did help me develop some ideas... unfortunately, they're mostly ideas for the story I'm editing now. Which is good in one level, since the story involves rapid technological progress and I was needing to add more tech stuff to the background, but I worry the story might already be getting too bloated as it is. Maybe the story's beyond my capabilities to tell well at this point, but oh well. And of course, it's a problem because that story's in the editing stage, and since tomorrow is the start of another writing cycle I need either completely new stuff to work on, or new ideas for older stuff, and I didn't get much of those. Ah well.

Also on the walk home, I wanted to check the time, and I saw a phone booth, which usually displays it. Except when I got there, it said, "Please hang up receiver". So I did. And then it immediately changed to "Please pick up receiver." No. Just because I do you a favour, doesn't mean I'm your little puppetmonkey. Make up your mind. Anyway, then it put the time up.

On other fronts, I'm still enjoying the Sarah Connor Chronicles quite a bit. It's going in directions I don't expect, which is often a good thing (though I still hope it goes in a couple directions I expect). And bonus points for a mention of the Singularity.

And, I suppose I should mention something about Heath Ledger. I'm not a particular fan of his -- by which I don't mean that I had any dislike for him whatsoever, just that I haven't _seen_ a whole lot he's been in. The only real connection I had to him, aside from looking forward to his role as the Joker, was that I used him as the character model/actor for Scuzz on XET. So it does hit me a _little_ more than any other actor that I don't have a particular connection to, so it was something of a shock. I think I actually said "Holy crap" when I heard it on the news. And of course, mostly, it's a tragedy for his family. Must be hard for them, especially with him being fairly young (he's actually younger than me, though I wouldn't have guessed), and him having a young daughter. I wish the best for them in the times ahead.

Comments

[locker-monster.livejournal.com]

I'm slightly confused about something in Astonishing X-Men. So Danger gets a code or signal from the missile platform that simply says, "Rasputin". The team checks it out and Beast says it's talking about Illyana, not Peter. Isn't Illyana dead? I'm not sure how her magic powers works into things.

Do you think the giant issue will resolve everything? Or will Joss leave a few things hanging for Warren Ellis to pick up on?

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

She's dead, but she sort of recently came back, though that's not really relevant. In any event, from what I gather from the scene (although it wasn't the most clearly written) it wasn't that the _code_ _said_ Rasputin, it was that they got a strange 'energy signature' or whatever you want to call it, that Danger compared to her own records. Her record associated that kind of signature to the word Rasputin, because the energy signature was "magic" Illyana Rasputin, a mutant as well as a sorceress, was Danger (when she was the Danger Room)'s only major experience with magic.

So basically it was a roundabout way of revealing magic was involved in the defenses.

As to the loose ends... I don't know, there's a fair bit in there as I recall, and particularly the Cassandra Nova stuff was just left dangling at the end and then so far seemingly completely forgotten in this new arc. I wouldn't be surprised if he only completely wraps up the Breakworld, but leaves that as a lurking-menace type subplot. And there are other minor things like Lockheed's troubles with his home planet that I suspect won't be dealt with directly _or_ specifically be for Ellis to pick up, just sort of left out there to be possibly explored at a later date by someone who was interested in telling that story.