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mike_smith

When I was 17, it was a very good year...

Oct 02, 2005 17:05

Just so I could throw my last issue of Previews away, this is my comics list for November, posted here because I really need to keep better track.

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Superman/Batman #24
JSA #79
Nightwing #114
Detective Comics #813
Batman #647
Wonder Woman #223
Amazing Spider-Man #526
Wolverine #36
Captain America #13
Fantastic Four #533

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Comments 33

rapunzel452 October 3 2005, 02:10:34 UTC

By the way, Mike, I printed out your motivational image from the last chapter and have it tacked up in my cubicle.

mike_smith October 3 2005, 22:19:23 UTC

Excellent. Today, Kansas City, tomorrow the Vatican!

rapunzel452 October 4 2005, 03:00:30 UTC

Janemba, the new patron saint of hopeless causes?

mmmdraco October 3 2005, 10:19:44 UTC

I adore Ron, but I want to smack him in this book, too. Ron is actually a pretty good character up until this point. In the movies, Hermione gets all of his good lines (because they are interchangable, really, unless Hermione is being a brain [which is almost always] or Ron is being mental [that's his favorite word, I think]). Ron is a really great character, though, and mostly because he's the guy who is so guileless and pedantic that he could do nothing and still be a good guy, but he occasionally wants the flash and sparkle that he sees in Harry's life, and gets a little jealous. (Ron reminds me of Hot Rod, actually.) Without having seem the buildup of his character, he *would* be understandably annoying in this book... but suffice it to say that Ron has younger brother syndrome. All of his brothers are successful. They were Quidditch captains and Head Boys and went on to jobs that made them well-known. Ron is perhaps destined to be defined by the people he is around as he finds a friend in who is arguably the most well-known child ( ... )

jim_smith October 3 2005, 15:19:33 UTC

Dude... it's October 3rd. 18 more days! You'd better get a move on. ::nodnod::

He's not gonna make it. He's gonna get his new game and he won't be able to play it because he'll be busy reading this book. I love it because I like watching Mike suffer. Haw haw!

marciamarcia October 4 2005, 00:09:47 UTC

He's not gonna make it

For his sake, let's hope he chooses to finish the book first. Because once you have an enormously popular, perpetually unfinished Work-In-Progress, you officially become a Harry Potter Big Name Fan. Whether you want to or not.

trishalynn October 13 2005, 14:54:54 UTC

And he's got girls watching! You can't disappoint the females!

aberranteyes October 4 2005, 01:57:55 UTC

His voice would be altered to resemble either an irate Mr. Spock, or Fred from Scooby-Doo in the late stages of a syphilis infection.

I've never seen Transformers: The Movie, so I literally can't wrap my head around the idea of Galvatron sounding like Leonard Nimoy. And Welker used that voice other places, like the admiral in that G.I. Joe episode ("Sink the Montana") who saved his beloved ship from scuttling by taking it, and himself, over to Cobra in what may have been the dumbest heel turn of all time.

mike_smith October 5 2005, 05:47:07 UTC

I've never seen Transformers: The Movie, so I literally can't wrap my head around the idea of Galvatron sounding like Leonard Nimoy.

Do yourself a favor and go rent it. Or break into my apartment and steal mine. It'll be worth it.

aberranteyes October 5 2005, 11:42:40 UTC

Or break into my apartment and steal mine.

Nuh-uh. I'm not going to rob you of anything you might enjoy when this book gets to be too much for you.

claudia_k October 5 2005, 06:45:02 UTC

Behold: Galva Ron

Mike, you have opened my eyes to a whole new way of dealing with fiction. I've read these books three or four times now, and it occurs to me that Rowling's had her way with these characters for far too long. The next time I reread the HP series, I am going to replace Fred and George with the commanders of the Crimson Guard. Just to see if that doesn't shake things up a bit.

mike_smith October 8 2005, 00:23:48 UTC

So... you're replacing one pair of horribly stereotyped twins with another pair of horribly stereotyped twins? Well, at least Tomax and Xamot have better fashion sense, I guess.

I'd suggest a more robot-oriented duo, such as Bender and Flexo from Futurama, or use a different Fred and George, such as Fred Astaire and George Burns. But hey, it's your imagination.

rated_g October 12 2005, 08:04:08 UTC

Because of Mike, I'm imagining Snape in a Merry Christmas sweater ALL through my re-reads. I think there's something else, but I can't remember what it was right now. I hope I can remember what it was before I get to the SS re-read.

Mike inspires us, in his own weird ways rated_g October 12 2005, 08:28:16 UTC

Oh, now I remember what the second thing was: I'm already starting to write all over my books like the half blood prince... and like Mike. There's already an image of Felix the Cat by the first mention of Felix Felicis and Felix's magic bag is mixed in with the title image of that chapter.
When I finally get around to re-reading the first book again, I'll be making notes everywhere on things that might be clues for the last book, along with a snarky comment here and there(already made one in HBP).
I'm still trying to catch up with these entries. I just can't find the time to read them. Tonight, I'm fitting three entries into my schedule.