Yes, yes, yes. That should be her overly-cute Matt Fraction tagline.

So the introduction to Kitty Pryde was my introduction to comics. Some of my early purchases included the From the Ashes TPB and the seminal “God Loves, Man Kills.” In GL,MK Kitty is the most heroic of any of the X-Men. She amazed me with her courage in the finale.

Kitty Pryde was one year older than me. (And she was Jewish, another trait we had in common). While I always wanted to be Cylcops (c’mon Phoenix was hot!), I identified most closely with Kitty. She was also Claremont’s favorite character, so he lavished more attention on her. She was in middle school, she was smart & cute, and her powers still left her relatively normal. She was definitely the easiest character for me to relate to.

I didn’t read Excalibur because it wasn’t on my newstand consistently. I never liked the comedy tone, and the Cross Time Caper was an impenetrable jumping on point. So I missed Kitty for a long time.

I stopped reading Comics in 1994 and didn’t start up again until 2006. I was delighted to see her back in Astonishing. But even then, I didn’t realize how much she was my favorite character until Whedon “killed” her off.

Now I get my Kitty Pryde fix from X-Men Forever, and I have every expectation that Claremeont will use her well. (Though the idea that the addition of Wolverine’s claw makes her the “most formidable” X-Man is patently absurd). I’m also hoping to see her return in the “mainstream” titles. The current setup has the makings for a great storyline bringing her back.

There: more information about me than you wanted.

Couldn’t agree more. The more he puts out, the less I love the stuff I used to love of his, it’s a shame.

On the Kitty Pryde thing, for me, when I started reading X-Men, it was the 90s so I have no affection for her. This was when you couldn’t get Excalibur from the newsagents and I didn’t live near a dedicated comic shop so I just knew her as the smug girl that turns up occasionally and bitches about things. I just don’t have any interest in the character, I can’t be the only one.

I have to admit though, aside from the occasional forray, I mostly only keep up with the X books from X Axis. Thanks for that BTW.

i’m tired of the T-O virus being used as some kind of deus ex machina for other writers to abuse; it was much more fun in the old days when warlock, magus and the technarch were unknowns with awesome levels of power. warlock had the ability to clean up infected limbo demons during inferno, but louise simonson’s infamous lame run on the new mutants virtually ignored all of that.

That’s right – back during the same “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man” run where David was doing stuff like Zombie-from-Hell Mysterio and a storyline with a throwaway character from a decade-old crossover with Spiderman 2099. I tend to think of that as David hitting his X-treme X-Men Period.

I really liked Beast’s design in SWORD; hell, I want him to look beastier and beastier. I could do without the ominous reference to a possible Second Coming of Kitty Pryde in the back-up, though. God, I’m sick of Kitty Pryde.

Cable needs to be put down. This book’s premise was working maybe ten issues or so ago; now it is old, old, old, old, old, and I am so, so sick of it. It is the Gilligan’s Island of superhero comics.

Supergod reads like an extended blog post with pictures. I have this vague memory of a time when Ellis wrote actual narratives, about stuff other than whatever he happened to find on the internet. Was that real? Did I dream that?

Strange made me sad. Dr. Strange is down; is it necessary to kick him in the groin while we’re at it?

When two aliens look close to identical, you should feel free to read something from that.

KG

I think I have to sample the new Max Punisher. Aaron seems to be one of the newer writers who shows at least some promise. And Dillon on the art is nice too. This is more suited to him. I really like his art, but he is wasted on straight superhero stuff. Caught a glimpse on his Cable back-up, and this isn´t just his thing.