eliyes: okay, so, I basically downloaded the soundtrack for The Chipmunk Adventure because I wanted the song Gettin' Lucky
eliyes: I don't know if it's a cover or what
eliyes: but now
eliyes: I am picturing various non-chipmunk fictional people singing it
kiffie: *cackling*
eliyes: and possibly dancing with cartoon snakes the same way
kiffie: XD
eliyes: I AM PICTURING SHARON AND STEVE STANDING IN A ROOM FULL OF DEFEATED HYDRA AGENTS SINGING IT BACK AND FORTH
kiffie: See, my childhood association with the Chipmunks was Bat-Munk, so... uh... that's having an interesting time in my mind, at the moment.
kiffie: Oh, come now... Serpent Society, surely. Timelines be damned.
eliyes: OH HONEY HONEY GIVE ME *punch* A CLUE *kick, elbow* WONTCHA TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO DO *flying tackle*
eliyes: sure, serpent society also works
kiffie: The little BONG as someone hits the shield
eliyes: although Steve seems to have actua hahaha
eliyes: actual emotional ties to some of them, or vice versa
eliyes: bong hahaha
eliyes: it's hard to be taken seriously as a supervillain when Captain America has done a pseudo Elvis impression while singing into your tail
eliyes: if you don't have any clue what I mean I can find a video on youtube for you
kiffie: ...I am picturing this.
kiffie: This is making my head hurt.
eliyes: can you imagine? in the costume, swivelling his hips and knees, flinging an arm into the air with his head down to the mic/tail -- and catches the shield XD
eliyes: Sharon & Natasha: *clap*
eliyes: Natasha: *pauses to tranq dart a thug, goes back to clapping, face polite*
kiffie: oh god. *laughing*

If you'd like some context for that post I made with all the pictures of Captain America in corsets, now you can have some! GayLeague has posted the relevant pages, as well as given some info on where to look for reprints and also some context for the story itself.

For example, it's a rare example of an American superhero fighting Nazis printed before the USA got involved in the war -- the issue came out April of 1941, more than half a year before Pearl Harbor was bombed. (Remember, the Mayor of New York wound up giving the guys working on the Cap comic a police protection detail because they were being sent hate mail and death threats, menacing people were loitering by their building, and people were following them around -- all because they were angry at the anti-Nazi message in the Captain America comics.)

Can I just say how amazed I am that Steve and Bucky travelled from the States to Portugal by air, then by train from there through France to Germany, then to England (I presume a boat or another plane was involved at some point there) -- all in these disguises?! That's a pretty extensive undercover gig as a old bag in a corset, Steve!

Check out the highly memorable (well, maybe not to the drunk superheroes) Alpha Flight Christmas Issue!! (They have probably had other Christmas things happen since the 90s. I don't care, they will never be as good as that one. Which is sad.)
(P.S. Warning -- male strippers and 90s art.)

And then admire these awesome Northstar & Aurora stockings!

If Alpha Flight isn't your cup of cheer this Christmas (or even if it is!), then let Annie Lennox bring you ( glad tidings of comfort and joy )

Happy 24th, all.

I have no problem with Northstar marrying his boyfriend; they're a cute couple, and comics need to stop trying to keep everyone in this relationship limbo thing.

What I want to know is why the hell are they getting married in New York?! They're both Canadian citizens! Same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada since 2005! Why not get married there, avoiding the red tape of having your wedding in another country -- always a pain in the ass. They can have a post-wedding party in New York if for some reason a bunch of the guests couldn't go to Canada -- have the X-Men moved back to NY, even? I thought they were still based off the West Coast?

Went to my FLCS and gave the guys a card and box of After Eights, to their delight! Also bought a heroclix figure of Booster Gold and Blue Beetle (and posted pictures of it here on boostle, if you'd like to see) as well as the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine mini-series where the campy evil Gul Dulcet kidnaps Bashir in order to lure Garak into a trap. Or something like that; I haven't read them yet. I'm very excited, though, and as they were only 50¢/issue, I feel it was money well-spent!

It's been a good day so far. :3 ...Now I'm going back to bed. X3

Got the Captain America one-shot about the original Agent 13 and hated it. Peggy is awesome, but the people who put this together decided that instead of her just being flat out awesome like she was, they had to make Cap into an asshole and her all mad at him in order to build her up. This pissed me off because Cap's not an asshole -- he is especially not an uncontrollably violent and hormonal, unmindful jerk like in this book -- and also Peggy does not need building up, she was already totally awesome on her own!

Fans of Cap and Mademoiselle 13, I don't recommend this book.

Hm.

*puts down a stack of Young Justice issues covering the team's visit to Myrg, subsequent baseball game against alien invaders, and side trip to New Genesis*

I have to admit, Inertia is a better actor than Match. Sure, Match was hampered by a) the fact that he was supposed to sew strife and bad decisions in the team, and b) the Point Men, who nearly blew his cover a couple times.

Thad's aberrent behaviour is easier to spot in the Impulse books, because his major flaw in portraying his progenitor is that the contempt he feels for Bart (and pretty much everyone else) sometimes shines through. That's actually harder to spot in Young Justice, because the writers held everyone on that team in contempt except Cissie (who was technically not on the team at the time), or wrote like they did.

So, we went to our FLCS today -- in its role as FLGS, since buying a newly arrived gamebook was the goal -- and I hit the 25¢ rack and scored a 4-issue run of Flash from the middle of Wally becoming a responsible human being. (i.e. Piper is working on him, but Linda is not yet on the scene.) There is Grodd! And Vixen! And Rex the Wonder Dog (I'm not kidding)! And Chunk! And Ralph Dibny!

I have yet to decide which delights me more: Ralph getting superspeed piggyback rides from Barry, or Piper getting them from Wally. Ralph so clearly enjoys them; he tends to yell "WOOOOO!" and extend his neck ahead. Piper has blousy polkdot shirts and always has to hang onto his hat. I think, ultimately, I'm just very amused that piggyback rides are a speedster thing. I mean, I don't know about Jay (his hat might pose problems) or the Quick clan, and Bart's been pretty scrawny compared to anyone he might carry for much of his existance, but even John Fox gave Piper piggyback rides. Maybe it's a redhaired friend thing? (Maybe I could score one!)

I also picked up an issue of the ST:TNG comic because it featured Ms. John Sheppard Sonya Gomez, who's growing on me more and more as I accumulate Starfleet Corps of Engineers books. She's got Ro Laren's hairdo and her skin is an alarming greyish colour, but I will rea dit anyway as it was only 25¢.

On the way home, there was a bake sale. :3 I bought cupcakes and cookies. :3

And window shopping at ThinkGeek.com today has me making grabby hands all through the What's New section. Some highlights:
I would be dangerously creative with this stuff.
Had this existed when I was a child, I might have missed hours of drawing She-Ra's costume on my friends in chalk, but I like it anyway!
Something for Brainiac 5 -- or from him? Hmm...
There was even a t-shirt that mentioned telnet! (But as it was a LotR thing, I'm not that interested.)

Time for tea and cupcakes~ :9

Billy Batson and Captain Marvel buy each other Christmas presents! How adorable is that?

Having just finished reading 1751 pages of the webcomic Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic^zomg, I am now going to read another (ongoing) webcomic by the same artist while I wait for a new update of YAFGC. And try to acclimate myself to not having hundreds of pages to go.

The "other webcomic" in question involves the 6^th Doctor taking in a Jem & the Holograms concert, because he wants to know how they got their hands on Synergy, whose level of holographic tech should not be available at that time in Earth's history. I peeked at the latest strip; it involved Techrat and explosions.

This interests me strangely.

If you are also strange and/or interested, the beginning of the story arc "Outrage [of the Zygons]" is here.

As for YAFGC, if you've read it, I'd be happy to yak about it with you in the comments! I can say this much without putting spoilers in the main post: I really disliked Lucas at first (you're pretty much supposed to) and now he's one of my favourite characters. That character development was skillful; I am officially impressed!


^zomgWho knew that finding a "25 expressions" deviAtion for a gelatinous cube would be a GATEWAY DRUG??? @_@