I must regenerate

My fanboy credentials are clearly fading. I’ve missed a few crucial fanboy products that I should have caught. Therefore, I will be returning to San Diego this weekend to indulge in all that is the San Diego Comicon. My sweet Lupita and I will be making a daring one-day visit on Saturday this year due to work constraints. But there we shall bathe in the non-judgemental purity of geek paradise. Or something like that. In any case, not too lake to make your last-minute, impulse travel arrangements.

Speaking of comic books, in reading 40 years of X-men I have so far discovered the following:

1. The professor had a crush on Jean Grey early in the series. As it seemed incredibly creepy (especially since Jean spends most of her energy early on keeping the other 5 students from humping her leg) it was a plot thread soon lost. Only to reappear somehow during the onslaught miniseries if I’m not mistaken.
2. The blob was originally a circus performer. After rejecting Xavier’s offer to join the x-men, the blob rounds up the circus to destroy the mansion. So the big fight at the end is of the mutants beating the crap out of circus clowns and acrobats. Also, cyclops shoots an elephant in the face at point-blank range. I did a little head-scratching on that one.
3. The weirdness of Stan Lee’s stories aside, Jack Kirby’s art was very good and I found myself enjoying the first run of issues with Stan as author and jack as artist very much. But they are pretty cheesy.
4. the other mutant power that all x-men have is to have 8 complete sentences worth of dialogue while doing a backflip or falling 5 feet. There was actually a panel where I think cyclops and jean have this whole conversation while falling 5 feet and they end it with something like, “Watch out for the ground!” They either talk very fast or gravity doesn’t work the same for them as it does for us.

Quote of the Day

“There is no fish of the second freshness.” -- Apparently a Russian saying, but the internets have lied before. In any case, I liked it.