Metal Queen

So Vulcan Ninja survived going to see Megadeth on her own. I realize there are some of you who may question my Husband Skills by not accompanying her. To which I respond: if she thought I was only going to 'keep her safe', she would break my jaw. While I learned to fight on the hard streets of Delaware, she has been taught jujitsu, American Kenpo, Russian systema, knife fighting, and Sinanju by the world's best. Nuff said.

And she got to use it. Apparently, a very inebriated young man at the concert thought it would be amusing to grab her from behind. The poor, poor bastard.

Free Comic Book Day was a success. I made the rounds yesterday, seeing the usual crowds of happy comic book fans alongside the usual slimy fuckers who want to take everything that they can simply because they can, bored dads trying to get out of the stores before their kids want something they'd have to pay for, the occasional geek goddesses drawing the eyes and imminent fantasies of all those around, the tired smiles of fatigued store staff, all fed with an undercurrent of joy.

Coming home, I then retired to the Comic Room, and spent a glorious half hour bagging and boarding a small pile of loose comics. Yeah, I enjoy doing that. Gives me time to reflect on a lot of the books from the last year or so. My thoughts, in bullet form:

--Even though it ran a bit too long, The Sinestro War was quite enjoyable.

--It's ridiculous that DC no longer has the rights to 'Superboy', but have to call him the idiotic Superman Prime.

--I'm not finding the Millar run on Fantastic Four to all that fantastic. I much more enjoyed Dwayne McDuffie's run, who didn't feel the need to borrow as heavily from the Ultimate FF as Millar does. And McDuffie wasn't as arrogant as Millar has been, boasting that he's going to make FF a top seller while many others could not.

--Blue Beetle is a gem.

--2000 AD is easily the greatest comic currently being produced. The stories are dark, intelligent, with art that is always intriguing. The fact that the editors are able to throw together so many different stories each week that are always of such high quality must make their American counterparts cringe.

--I'm intrigued by Final Crisis. I'm sure that will change. I'm not crazy about Barry Allen returning, and I'm not looking forward to what DC has in mind to 'clean up' the three different Legions running around. I'm just enjoying Jim Shooter's superb run on the current Legion book, and pray to the comic gods that DC has the sense to keep him around.