That was the one part of the movie I hated, since it seemed like Xavier was totally OK with the fact that his long-time friend had just been replaced with some asshole he'd known for about a day back in the 70s.

Cullen Bunn's Magneto#9 - 17: Not as good as the first 8 issues, due to being caught up in the Axis nonsense, and the decision give Magneto back his full power level. I find that omega level superpowers are usually very boring anyway, and Mags was much more interesting when he had to use a lot of cleverness and effort…

Yes, he did do some good things. He apparently did a lot of work with churches and tried to help young people stay out of gangs.

I wonder if Paul Campbell ever looks back on his decision to play stupid negotiation games with the producers and regrets it.

Baltar's particular combination of selfishness and weakness irritates the hell out of me. And every time he managed to worm out of the consequences of his actions and somehow gain a position of power it made me dislike him even more.

Storm was in Chris Claremont's X-treme X-men. It's probably for the best that you don't remember that book.

Vol. 1 of the new Batgirl, which was OK. I've never read DC regularly, and don't have any kind of emotional connection to Batgirl or Oracle, so the changes that were hashed over when this book came out didn't really concern me. The stories were fast moving and entertaining enough, and the art was good. The near…

I'm almost glad to read that, because she's supposed to be, like, 14, and it would be very weird if it were figurative.

Yeah, "quiet pursuit of doing the right thing", my ass. The Prince is a sicko.

Well, that's an out of nowhere reference.

I've never heard of the The Sword and The Sorcerer either; the wikipedia description is surprisingly detailed.

I'm starting to think Chris Claremont had some unpublished fantasy novels laying around, and just changed the names and character descriptions to fit with the Willow movie.

They were co-written by Chris Claremont, who'd recently been kicked off the X-men comics, and was probably was also in a dark place.

Not really? A MacGuffin is an unexplained object that drives the plot, but doesn't really effect it.

I generally like Whedon's work, but his characters are almost always snark machines.

No, they were really not very good. Not well-written (even for YA fiction), and the unrelenting grim tone was very different from the movie. As a 12-year old Willow fan, they left me confused and irritated.

Well, the choice was certain death by wild boar-dog mauling versus probable death by drowning, so she took the slightly less bad option.

It did, except for when Molly Hayes meets the Punisher. That was great.

Because they're color photos of sepia-toned.

Yeah, the Inhumans are at their best when they're being isolationist weirdos on the moon, or getting into cosmic wars and shit.