Whedonistas, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Joss.

For me, Whedon's run on Astonshing X-Men was all about Kitty, and also about her and Peter.

I get that Jean is Scott's lobster and I think Scott and Emma is a little weird, but it's good character development for both of them. I'd love to hear your take on them in some distant blog.

And really, what's up with Summers hooking up with only telepaths? That's it's own kind of kink, I think.

lobster = Friends reference for "soulmate"

I completely identified with Scott as a kid. The whole "tortured soul who doesn't express his emotions" sang to a gay kid in The South, where men don't speak about anything other than hunting, sports, and the weather. Funny, but that may be why I rebounded so hard and became an extrovert.


I love Phoenix, and while she, of all characters, gets a pass for coming back, if only because of the name, I prefer that she stay dead. I like the occasional tease, but 1)As you said, she earned it and 2)Each successive resurrection lessens the previous one. Now, if there were a novelization including a "temporary" resurrection, just for the length of the book, and that book were a collaboration between Chris Claremont and a certain Ms. McGuire....Wow! I didn't know I had that fantasy until I typed it! ;-)

I'm interested to hear the long version of your take on why Jean should remain really most sincerely dead. I have my own reasons, several of which are metafictional, one of which being, "I'm just tired of the whiny pain in the ass," and another being, "I'm getting tired of lazy comic book writing where 'dead' means 'temporarily out of circulation' or where the impending death of a character is used to generate marketing hype. A faked death is one thing; "blown to smithereens" or "irradiated into oxydized carbon" ought to mean you don't have lunch with said person a year later.

LEAVE HER ALONE.

She's not Britney and gods help us if you go all Marvel Girl - Chris Crocker on us. I agree with you on that point, though; sometimes, a hero's end should be an end. Barry Allen comes immediately to mind on the DC side of the house, as does Bruce Wayne, though for a different reason.

Reminded me of the "Leave Britney Alone!" thing. I think I may regret showing this to you, if you hadn't already heard of it.

Oooh. There's going to be a Chicks Dig Comics books?!? I absolutely LOOOOOVVEEED Chicks Dig Timelords, and even though I'm not nearly as adequate a Whedon aficionado, I was excited about Whedonistas. :) (I keep debating if I should get the Whedonistas one since I really only know Firefly, Dr. Horrible, and his run on Runaways. I haven't seen Buffy, Dollhouse, or his run on X-men [X-men has broken my heart too many times for me to go back to the comics...]}

Did you ever consider writing about Joss' work on Runaways? I recently read that stretch and thought it was among the best of the entire series.

You should think about giving Runaways a shot, whether written by Joss or not it's a very clever, sometimes subversive series.

And then there was the time Psylocke was hot for Scott.

He's got to have the telepathic equivalent of one of those really bad Axe bodyspray women-flock commercials things. It is the only explanation.