X-Men Disassembled

[PhotoJones]

About his arm? Would it be a silent story?

 

[Xofenroht]

Naa, if I wanted to be comical about it, I'd have the arm speaking in captions. Like "Hi, I am James' arm. I am mechanical. Without me, James would have failed at kicking Iron Man's ass. He would also have trouble taking a piss while drunk."

But if it were serious, I'd have a villain take control of it and use it to build some sort of scandal case against Cap by using it to commit murders or assassinations. Sort of how I told you the Trickster's body parts would detach from him and do things while he was sleeping (in the Native myths.).

Yeah, something like that.

 

[PhotoJones]

"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise."

 

[Xofenroht]

"I am Jack's smirking revenge."

 

[PhotoJones]

"I am Jill's nipple."

 

[Xofenroht]

"I harden when Jill is aroused and may be used to nourish her nursing baby."

Oh, Reader's Digest...how I love thee.

 

[PhotoJones]

Those were real, weren't they?

 

[Xofenroht]

Yeah, they were. The character was reading one of them in "Fight Club".

 

[PhotoJones]

I know they were in Fight Club, jackass. That's what I've been quoting from. I was asking if they are actually real articles as opposed to being made up for the movie/book.

 

[Xofenroht]

I KNOW. That's why I said it's from Reader's Digest and mentioned to you that the character was reading them in Fight Club. So I could tell you where they came from, imply that I knew you were quoting Fight Club and also make a slight allusion that the character was influenced by them when he said things like "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise" or "I am Jack's smirking revenge".

The article was just about body parts, if memory serves right, but I assume Palahniuk had the character making his own variations on those affirmations.

 

[PhotoJones]

Shut up, I didn't know.

 

[Xofenroht]

See, that's why college is nice.

 

[PhotoJones]

I went to college. And graduated.

 

[Xofenroht]

But not after "Fight Club" became a required text

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I never had to read Fight Club in college.

 

[supermarvelman]

Absolutely. Wanting to kill the baby is one thing. This thing is tantamount to his Hitler. But all of his other actions are clearly villainous. Forge is dead (I think) for no other reason than simply being in the spot where he planned to ambush Cable. Seriously, how can you not view Bishop as a villain at this point?

I do view him as a villian, i'm just kinda in denial. Also I was just putting the question out there to see what some people thought.

 

[El Bastardo]

I like that Bishop has turned.

It's, what, the only thing he's done since the cancellation of District X? Or was he sucking up space in Claremont's Uncanny Crap-Men after that?

Bishop chasing Cable in some kind of deluded revenge-seeking mission? Golden, man. Golden.

 

[supermarvelman]

I'm with you Bastard

 

[El Bastardo]

And I laughed when I saw how Bachalo drew the hand attached to the arm that Predator X bit off.

But then, I guess anatomy isn't a strong point when he draws things that look like animated putty. The characters look like they could step into that old Gumby show!

... Oh my god, I can't believe I remember the old Gumby show.

 

[Xofenroht]

I never had to read Fight Club in college.

It was an Arts and Humanities course about human nature or something like that. The professor talked a lot about the different aspects of the human personality and often used "Fight Club" to make a point, while also having us read the book and watch the movie then write essays about it.

Mmmm...tasty. :gray:

 

[MangleBoP]

Well, the actual plot doesn't matter anymore. We know everything turns out fine (except for Kitty's death), as none of the events have been referenced in any other book.

Kitty was alive during WWH, so I think she lives. Plus, Bendis loves Kitty, and Joe Q. will gladly walk all over Joss's work to make his gay lover happy.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It was an Arts and Humanities course about human nature or something like that. The professor talked a lot about the different aspects of the human personality and often used "Fight Club" to make a point, while also having us read the book and watch the movie then write essays about it.

Mmmm...tasty. :gray:

Humanities classes are the best. I took a visual storytelling class and read The Maltese Falcon, watched about 3 or 4 film versions of that story, analyzed a bunch of Disney and Captain America comics in class, read Batman: Year One, and created a comic book for my final project.

 

[Xofenroht]

That's awesome. I would have loved that class. I'm so glad that comic books have gained the respect it deserves as a literary medium.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, my professor was one of the earliest "comic book scholars" in the country. He's met all kinds of the big names in old-school comics and written a bunch of stuff on the medium as a whole. I haven't read any of it, granted, but it's cool to know.

 

[PhotoJones]

If Kitty was alive during WWH, wouldn't that mean she'd have to make it out of Whedon's story alive?