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Everyone knows about Sherlock Holmes and Avatar and Doctor Who and Supernatural and Harry Potter. But what about the things that you love and that everyone else hasn't read or seen (or even heard of), but should?

I'll start off with Marvel Comics' Nova, the story of a space-faring super-hero who is the last member of the storied Nova Corps (Marvel's surprisingly interesting version of the Green Lantern Corps). It's a little continuity-heavy at times - it grew out of one crossover event and gets sucked into several others - but the stories seem to work on their own, the writing by Abnett and Lanning is crisp and witty, the art is very good, and the hero himself is likeable and about as heroic as anyone I've encountered in a super-hero comic in ages.

ETA: I should probably also mention that DC Comics has reprinted the first 30 issues of The Question in five trade paperbacks, with the last coming this year. It's not just prime canon for my pup, but it's also one of the most influential and highly regarded comics of the 80s, written by Denny O'Neil at his peak.

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I'm a huge fan of both the book and the movie. I saw the movie first, when it first came out, and then promptly bought the book, and read the entire thing while my mom was trying on new clothes at JC Penny's. Those two bits of canon are awesome.

...uh, and I was like eleven or twelve, so, I probably shouldn't have watched it, because, well, it's pretty damn gory in bits (When they went into the house? OMG ew.), but fantastic.

^_^ I may have to watch that today.

Do it, and then report if it feels different to you! Cause that's what I find so especially fascinating about it all. As for the ewww, my stomach turned most at the communal bowl of water near the beginning. What they found in the house -- well, my friend the Nazgul and I rewatched it (among other things) because she said she wanted to see blood. And I needed to have a look at it before screencapping because I'm using the actor who plays Buliwyf as the PB for my new Milli!charrie currently in the apping process, who is from a completely different book but still has something to say about Arabic civilisation from the middle ages, see above what I said to Flynn.

((So the Buliwyf-alike you're going to see in Milliways in a few weeks, hopefully? Totally is not Buliwyf. He is kind of evil -- beware!))

I saw him in mm, and was like, "Hey!!! That's the Buliwyf!" Then I had to go look at the page. Hee!

I'm taking an Ancient Near East class this coming semester, and well, the professor is new, and I was in his trial teaching class? And he didn't call on any of the women in the class to answer questions, or ask questions. I'm an Ancient History person, and well, I'm sort of taking this class to see if he gets any better. If not, I'm talking with the head of the department and the dean.

Heeee! Actually, the actor wasn't on my radar at all before I asked

corchen to recommend me a PB for this book charrie I was going to app. Tall, long blond hair, handsome, manly, not too young -- yep, he fit the bill. --- And then you looked at the info page, I guess, and found that not only is he not Buliwyf, he is rather evil, and at least a ruthless killer who will sex up women and then shoot them through the eye? Better avoid Urquhart, then.-

As for the professor, there was a story being told at the university here in Munich about a professor of Medieval Latin a few decades back (must have been the 1920s, so could find out which one it was, but am too lazy now) who tried to ignore female students because he thought it was not a good thing, and women belonged in the kitchen, not in a lecture hall. So instead of 'Ladies and gentlemen,' he started all his lectures and seminars and whatnot just with 'Gentlemen!', ignoring the female students utterly. I don't know what he did with their term papers, but as a German professor of the time, I guess he had enough flunkies to foist off grading papers to them, especially grading the papers by female students. So, because he did that, the students played a trick on him. For one of his weekly lectures, none of the male students turned up. At all. So he went up to the pulpit, was ready to go 'Gentlemen!', looked at the students, found no gentlemen, and went majorly 'Errrrrrmmmmmmm'. From then on, the female students did exist.-

^_^ I like that story. I mean, it's awful that a young (mid thirties-ish) professor in (it was) 2009 could ignore the majority of the class, with other professors sitting there and evaluating his performance.

One of the profs specifically mentioned to me that she saw that my hand was up and he was calling on the guy next to me instead of giving me a shot.

Plus...uh, some of his information...wasn't right. >.>

The latter part is what really counts, at the end of the day. I wonder why they hired him after all;it's not as if they didn't notice. But instead of raising a stink straight away, you might try that tactic on him first. Just imagine him coming to an all-female class and going majorly 'Errrrrrmmmmm ...'

I'll see; I'm not so good with getting a bunch of people to do much of anything. And I've even been in charge of things. Heh.

We'll see how the semester goes; maybe he was just nervous. I dunno.

Yep. Perhaps he is scared of women? **grins**

Knowing the lot of us? I'd be scared of wimmins too. We're an intimidating bunch.

Yes we are!!

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