Stephanie, don't you dare... Batgirls don't... okay, fine. "Squee."

IMPORTANT NEWS: SOME PEOPLE ARE MAKING A STEPH!BATGIRL WEBSERIES. AND BATWOMAN AND THE QUESTION ARE IN THE TRAILER. WAAAAAANT. *makes grabby hands*

I went to visit The Parents last weekend, due to an unfortunate lack of electricity in my flat (better than an overabundance of electricity in my flat, I suppose). This turned out to be an excellent choice; I went round to cheltenhamjess's to watch Eurovision (not nearly ridiculous enough this year, I feel, despite sterling efforts by the Russian grannies and the men who turned into a boat) with her and Vanky, and spent most of the rest of the weekend sitting in the garden reading. I also paid a visit to the bargain bookshop with all the cheap Marvel comics, and picked up a few more things:

• Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. I almost didn't buy this, because it was a lot more expensive than the others, but I am so glad I did, because I loved it. It was sharp and funny, with awesomely stylish covers, and some great characters. Monica Rambeau in particular I loved, and I am most definitely on Team Put Her In The Next Avengers Film Please. I really liked Elsa too, possibly because I have a weakness for English creators putting England/English characters in their comics. (See also: Paul Cornell's Knight and Squire. Have I flailed about that yet? Because I should've: four issues of silly, joyous hijinks, followed by two issues of punching me in the heart. Er, in a good way.) In conclusion: my robot brain needs beer.


• Runaways, books 4-7 Lots to love in these (I laughed a lot at Captain America falling on his face. Mine is a sophisticated sense of humour), but also one major development that I'm not sure how I feel about. ( major spoilers )


• X-Factor: Happenings in Vegas I picked up the previous volume, Second Coming, from the same shop over Christmas, but didn't really get on with it, because I had no idea who anyone was or what was going on. This one I clicked with a lot more, though, and really enjoyed, hurray, especially the Rictor/Shatterstar bits. ♥ I am a little worried about where they're going with ( spoilers )
  , but I shall wait and see what happens. (I also bought Hard Labor, and have reserved the volume in between from the library, so hopefully shouldn't have to wait too long!)

MEANWHILE, I have seen Avengers twice! I don't feel the need to post anything about it beyond "it was great, Black Widow is amazing, where is her film?", basically because everyone else has already said all the things. But as a result I have seen a lot of trailers for things and I have opinions on them! The Prometheus trailer was cool, if rather undermined by the mini making-of featurette shown before it. /o\ (Incidentally, "Doctor Elizabeth Shaw", totally a Doctor Who reference, right? So I am assuming unless it is explicitly contradicted.) The 3D Hobbit trailer made me happy in my heart, though I do have this problem whereby whenever I hear Gollum my first assumption is that it's the_smut_fairy doing her Gollum impression, and then I get all confused when she's not there. I also saw a trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, which I still can't decide if I'm going to see or not. On the one hand, CATWOMAN, and also it would be good to be able to grumble about it from a position of knowledge; on the other hand, I expect I will be grumpy about it, and also I nearly fell asleep in the last one. Decisions, decisions. Finally Spiderman, which would've been a good trailer if I wasn't so grumpy about how we're getting more Spiderman ALREADY and still no sign of any superheroine films. I did laugh at the "you've found my weakness! Really small knives!" bit, though.

This concludes the "usuallyhats witters on about superheroes" portion of your flists. FOR NOW.