Uncanny X-Men brings the gay

Contains SPOILERS for Uncanny X-Men #508! SPOILERS.

Advice column replies

Replies to the advice column post a couple days back.
Dear Ms. Kinney,
What’s the best way to dispose of a body?
Thanks,
Purely Hypothetical
To Whom it May Concern:
Body disposal is not a hypothetical matter. It is a concrete problem solved with the tools at hand. If you know ahead of time that you will have a corpse, make [...]

On the breaking of many things, not least of which, Kings.

Spoilers for X-Men: Kingbreaker follow, also War of Kings, most recent X-Men comics, and some allusions to other Marvel titles.
One of the ideas my friends and I toss around is the concept of a “Phoenix Corps.” Sort of like the Green Lantern Corps from DC Comics, only with a small team of women imbued [...]

Advice Column

Here’s a meme from my LiveJournal FList –
Ask any character I’ve written or Role-played for advice, and they will provide it, advice columnist style. Your problems or fictional characters’ problems both welcome. Management is not responsible for the results of following said advice (especially if provided by Rachel Summers-Grey or Starbuck.)
Helpful list of characters I’ve [...]

Antidote; or a light in a Dark Reign

Today the Fantastic Fangirls post about Steve Rogers. Not about Captain America, but about missing Steve Rogers as Cap.
Nothing against Bucky, you understand. And nothing against poor Clint, doing his damn best in New Avengers. But what Jennifer points out is that heroism is essentially human; that the super-, alone, is pretty [...]

“Torn”

(Originally posted to LJ November 16, 2006. I’m reposting it here so I don’t lose track of it.)
Astonishing X-Men, “Torn”
I just re-read the whole arc.
I normally don’t care too much about the plot in my obsessions. I know people who argue that Season Seven Buffy is the worst because it had the weakest [...]

Best moments in fandom, 2008

These the moments in 2008 that had me yelping, swearing, and muttering. The moments when I couldn’t sit still, whether I was in the theater or on my couch or in the parking lot at the comic store. The fist-pumping, whooping moments of glee and triumph, the sniffling moments of transitive loss.
10. [...]

Matt Fraction’s “The Order”

What motivates a person to think that they have one chance, one shot, or their life is doomed to failure? Is there something in their background or personal history? Is it our culture at large? Is it merely youth that does this, thinks this way? Is there something that comes from [...]