the vynsane asylum

Well, Whedon is on my shit list anyway for killing off Wash.

What the fuck is up with the shitty state of affairs in the X-books lately? Are they trying to out-suck each other in the writing department? It's Claremont v Milligan in a sucktastic write-o-rama. It's like a literary rochambeaux and the readers end up feeling it in the pills.

You know what's ugly? My reading pile currently contains 24 issues of Uncanny. To say it's at "the bottom of the pile" would be about as accurate as Hawkeye after a big cup of coffee.

On a semi-X note: Anyone pick up the last ish of NYX?
Good way to wrap up a story.
Hopefully iy comes back as a regular series with Joe Q writing (if he can ever get 'em done on time).

Is it over? That's odd that they'd dump that book, I'd heard nothing but good things about it. Funny that I never bought a copy though - and that's just the sort of thing that can get a good book cancelled.

Sorry fellas.

Cheap-Ass JJ

I'm not sure if it was ever intended to be an ongoing or not.
Issue 7 says "7 of 7" on the cover, so if it was an ongoing then Marvel changed their minds about it. And if it was an ongoing, then I'm sure the massive delays probably did it in.

I just learned that Jubilee has apparently lost her mutant powers as a result of this House of M shitfest. And here's what I have to say about that:

<font size="5">FUCK YOU, MARVEL COMICS!</font id="size5">

Jesus Christ, going out like a hero is one thing. Losing your powers for the sake of this month's pointless epic crossover? Fucking Clayface II went out like less of a bitch. Christ, the fucking Jedi Order went out less like bitches.

As long as I live, I will not buy another new comic from these fucking retards until they recant this fucking moronic decision.

Or at least make the Iceman a mutant again. Come on, goddammit, you fucking shiteaters. Meet me halfway, you cocksucking scumbags.

Weird. I thought you might be pissed or something...


Out of curiosity, what was your facination with her anyway?
I never really understood why she was even allowed to stay with the X-Men - all she did was shoot sparks.

He's always been tough to read, but I think you're on the money with that assessment. I think Anarky's fondness for Jubilee is some hidden urge to pinch Robin's bum that he just can't come to grips with - and the appearance of a female Robin allowed him to transfer that urge to a more hetero-friendly target.

It's okay, Anarky - there's nothing wrong with that.

Two words: Larry Hama. The guy is a god, and he made her the perfect counterpart to Wolverine.

I could live with this except:

A) Jubilee <b>and</b> Iceman? WTF???

B) Typical Marvel "let's have some ramifications of this otherwise dull and useless year-long crossover" crap.

C) Typical Marvel cop-out solution to the problem of there being too damned many mutants.

D) I'm sure Fabian Nicieza and Bob Harras are somehow involved in this shit.

I'll be sticking with Dark Horse, DC, and the indies, thankyaverymuch. At least they know how to actually write <b>STORIES THAT DON'T BLOW!!</b>

I suppose, though, losing one's powers is a far less horrific fate than being the title character in a totally irredeemable piece of shit series like Jubilation starred in a year or so ago.

And don't all jump on me at once. I tried this House of M shit, and it stunk as badly as X-Cutioners Song or The Age of Apocalypse. (Yeah, I know y'all liked that one, but I'd not insult by butt by using one of those issues as toilet paper.)

Zing. AOA got me back into comics after a 4 or 5 year (really) layoff - it was the restarting of all the books at #1 that hooked me, and the advent of computer color separations which I'd never seen before the AOA books. The Wolverine 4 part story was wicked, no matter how much you hated the rest of it.

The Age of Apocalypse is what killed my X-Men interest.
I tried the first and second issues of each.
Good God, that was retarded and pointless.

On a current note, Chris Bachalo is working on Uncanny again right now. His dark, manga-esque style works well for me - I first started liking him back when Generation X started. I think this is his 2nd run on Uncanny, but there may have been more.

The last issue (467) is quite good: the Shi'ar invaded and blew the crap out of nearly every member of Jean Grey's family. Only Rachael survived, but something happened to her as well.

I bet the Greys REALLY regret ever having a mutant daughter. Or at least having that pedophile Xavier show up at their door and offer her "lessons" at his "private school"...

Looking at the skirts Jeanie wore back then, I'm sure there was a tent in that brown wool blanket he used to wear over his legs. Can you blame him, the dirty old man?