A skillful dissection of AB:VH #6, courtesy of Chris's Invincible Super-Blog.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Those of you that dabble in comics fandom may already be aware of Chris's Invincible Super-Blog, which offers up tastily scathing reviews, commentary, and tons of the best kind of old skool crack.

Anyway. Chris has been hilariously dissecting each issue of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter comic series for the past few months, and it's the best kind of literary flogging.

He started out promisingly with his review of #3 (linked below):

"Yes, Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #3 hit stands yesterday, and so tonight, I'm devoting the ISB to an exhaustive, scurrilous set of notes on what may actually be the most awesomely terrible comic being put out by a major publisher today.

Grab your own copy and read along!"

Anyway. Since #6 hit the stands last week, I give you The Annotated Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #6.

The best part? Is that the creative team on the comic got linked to his entries/reviews/flogging, and apparently wrote him about his reviews. To which Chris responded:

"So! Now that I've built up a small amount of goodwill from the people who make this thing, I think it's time to completely blow it with another round of comprehensive notes on the subtle nuances and were-rat Daisy Dukes of everyone's fourth-favorite vampire hunter, now featuring even more guys in mesh tank tops than anyone could have possibly predicted."

There's bonus snark in every review about Anita's poor taste in armaments, as Chris makes her go toe-to-toe with the Punisher Armoury.

Here are all the reviews, in descending order, from #6 to #1. Seriously, I sprained a rib (and an ovary) laughing.

Enjoy!

Comments

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

Chris is gold on those.

*knows from being in the comics blogsphere*

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Greetings, fellow traveler. I've been known to blog about graphical literature myself. And by "known" I mean "blog ad nauseum."

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

My comic blod is willow_dot_com. I'm a bit ranty. Ok, I'm a lot ranty. But that's only because pre-Joss Runaways and Astro City were just about the only things that brought out the love.

*brings out the funk, brings out the noise*


Also, I heart your Icon with the love of a thousand Dazzlers :)

Dazzler, you say?

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Dazzler, you say? GIP! You best recognize for old school Ali!

I tend to rant quite a bit too.

(Although perhaps one of the few things maintaining Chris Claremont's increasingly tenuous claim to being sane is the fact that he's showing Ali using her powers in all kinds of awesome new ways in Excalibur.)

I've got a HUGE pull list that brings out the love still. I may hate Marvel and DC both with the fire of ten snillion enraged and dyspeptic suns, but there's still quality to be had there. MAX Punisher (brilliant), Ex Machina, everything to do with the Annihilation supermegacrossover (aka the Crossover That Actually Kicked Ass Unlike CW), the recent Agents of Atlas mini, Green Lantern (which is finally starting to rock except for last issue), She-Hulk, Hellblazer, X-Factor, Planet Hulk, Brubaker's Captain America, Brubaker & Fraction's Immortal Iron Fist, etc.

*recognizes and bows down*

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

I should follow Brubaker, but ....

I'm a TPB girl. I have more patience waiting all at once. Though I realize that means I miss out on some things (For example I'm having to hunt down Gotham Central issue by issue (as money shows up)).

Ex Machina I've liked. I've heard about She-Hulk, but in all honesty I don't get past the cheesecake covers. It's stupid, I know. But I just go 'bzuah?'. I should trust more.

I gave up on anything X-Men, uhmm 3 yrs ago was it? It half felt like people were talking because of the movies and they hadn't followed the various characters through crappo and back again. And then there was something about Gambit as Death?

Eh, anyway. Yeah, I fled to Manga.

I know!

But I did.

Even though I learnt how to read reading Batman and before my parents house burnt down I had Dazzler Old School like whoa. Any rpg I ever joined, I wanted to be her. Singing, dancing, sparkly lights and kick assness! How could a little girl not love that?

Hellblazer only won me over in the past 12 or so months. I borrowed a lot from the library. I've no idea where I'd start with buying them. Someone mentioned the female love interest in Hulk died recently. And omg, the Movie! It made me cry!

Tears of blood it made me cry!

But wow, yeah, your pull list does sound huge. I'm... really picky about giving Marvel or DC money when I feel like there's so much the could work on.

Still. BoP!

And now with Gail on WW, I'll be looking at that seriously.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Eh, anyway. Yeah, I fled to Manga.

I know!

But I did.

*cackle*

Oh, dear. I just...no matter how hard I try, no matter how much someone jumps up and down and says "BUT YOU'LL LOVE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST," I just crack open a volume of manga and my eyes glaze over.

Dazzler rocks. I love my mutants madly, but my supreme love in all of comics fandom, topping even my love for Green Arrow, Hal Jordan, Matt Murdock, Elektra, Black Bolt, Medusa, and Jean Grey is...HENRY P. MCCOY.

Back off, girls. He's MINE.

I think we clearly need to friend each other, stop with the public foreplay on a comm dedicated to lashing out at LKH, and just get to SERIOUS COMIC BIZNESS.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[ctrl-issue.livejournal.com]

Dude!

BEAST IS LOVE LIKE WOAH!

I <3 my Hank/Bobby OTP, even though I stopped reading X-men YEARS ago.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

I'm Hank/Kurt. Yes, I know. But Blue! Blueloverforever!

Ahem.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[kali921.livejournal.com]

I love Hank. I so wanted him to hook up with Betsy Braddock when they started flirting heavily in 2005, after she came back from the dead (surprise!). She's one of the few characters refined and cultured enough for him.

Seriously. If I ever met Hank, I'd ask him to sign my bra and immediately proprose marriage. I LOVE him so damn much. I've never met anyone that hates Hank as a character, ever.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[ctrl-issue.livejournal.com]

Seriously. If I ever met Hank, I'd ask him to sign my bra and immediately proprose marriage. I LOVE him so damn much.

Duuuuude, you're preaching to the choir here. I'd do the exact same thing, no matter what form he's in. ^_^

PS

[kali921.livejournal.com]

PS - I wanted to throw Jodi Picault off a high building for what she did to Wonder Woman in the few issues she...I can't really even bring myself to say "penned," so I'll say "corrupted with words."

Birds of Prey has gotten my interest again now that Oracle has Barda and Hawkgirl on board, and I can ALWAYS read about the Secret Six. Ragdoll for the win! I have a secret, perverted crush on Ragdoll.

WHAT.

HE'S SEXY, in a totally twisted-yet-genderqueer-yet-refined way.

Re: PS

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. What did Jodi Picault do to Wonder Woman? (Or, if you could direct me to a summary of some kind?)

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[lyo.livejournal.com]

o_O Gambit as Death?

My brain. Ow.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

He looks like a Drow in leather bondage. Seriously. Could not make this shit up.

Not that it's the reason I have utter hatred for Rogue (that started waaaay back around the Legion Quest era), but it doesn't hurt.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[lyo.livejournal.com]

I admittedly could never follow the comics very well, but I did like Rogue in the 1990s animated show. I was young, student, and easily amused by her accent.

Gambit, though, ow. At least his thighs were in proportion?

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

Well, seeing as Salvador Larroca was drawing him....yeah. Thankfully. But gods know what he'll look like when he returns in X-Men #200. Possibly even more ridiculous.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[kyalesyin.livejournal.com]

Actually, all the rumous we've been able to pick up from Mike Carey suggest that he's gonna wind up in the maruaders, but not for long, and be back to his old self by the end of the story.

www.gambitguild.co.uk

Its all on there, everything we've been able to find.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

Another one? I haunt gambitguild.com. And yeh, I know Carey's bringing him back, but he's a Rogue fan. I hold no hope he'll do much better with Gambit, considering she's the one who needs some serious slapping.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[kyalesyin.livejournal.com]

.com has been a little fishy of late. They actually came to us and asked us to take over and redesign their site because they were losing interest, and as far as I know our info guys don't cross-post.

Carey has actually been making some pretty big promises to put Gambit back on full form, and has hinted very, very strongly that the whole Romy thing is dead and burried and Rogue herself may well be dead by the end of things.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

Dead Rogue?

My birthday has come early this year.

.com has been a little fishy of late. They actually came to us and asked us to take over and redesign their site because they were losing interest, and as far as I know our info guys don't cross-post.

Really? The owners might be, I guess, but the group as a whole seems lively. Even if it's small.

Re: *recognizes and bows down*

[kyalesyin.livejournal.com]

Its was one of the owner guys. Pretty much emailed us with 'since we're both doing the same thing, how about you come over to our camp and give us a hand'

Glad the group is lively though. A healthy fanbase is gonna be the best way to get him back. We're planning on sending Carey chocolate [and lots of it] if he writes Gambit well.