Paj!

There's a difference between sexual attraction and beauty.

I love Pizza. I may just stick with Pizza Hut (which I know is "clear") and supermarket ones I know are safe. And never have Pear Cider again.

Xmas ftw. I love how the atmosphere (literally) changes. I feel different.

I could need to go as a comic character.

Fantomex isn't a particular favourite of mine either, but he's already got some nicely establish conflict brewing, even in just this issue. The team need him for E.V.A, but he's clearly going to butt heads with Archangel and/or Psylocke, over his Psylocke-drooling. And I found the bit when he talked about how when the team ride in E.V.A, he can read their bio-scans or whatever, very creepy. Which was cool. Deadpool I don't read normally, so I find him mildly entertaining rather than overexposed (which I know he actually is). It's just a return to the feel of X-Men I loved from before the current fairly dull era. Small teams...team drama and dynamics...It's promising.

I liked the coke/paedo joke. That worked best, or was funniest, I think. I like things like this though.

--- UNCANNY X-FORCE YES. Stunning art. Brilliant first issue. Packed so much in, I'm fucking excited. WISH they hadn't spoiled the kinda..point of the issue ie. finding out who the big bad is/will be. The hints throughout would have been much more *bites knuckles* if they hadn't. But no, this will be great. There's already good character development and set-ups, I love everyone there etc. Psylocke will finally have her time to shine again. Potentially best X-title on the shelves (not hard to acheive tbh).

It was takeaway, from a random place that did buy one, get one free (most places - including Domino's) do that in Kingston it seems.

Response Options 1: Very Inaccurate 2: Moderately Inaccurate 3: Neither Inaccurate nor Accurate 4: Moderately Accurate 5: Very Accurate 1. Am ready to act on the spot. 1 2 3 4 5 2. Am unpredictable--people never know what I am going to say. 1 2 3 4 5 3. Am unwilling to change appointments. 1 2 3 4 5 4. Break rules. 1 2 3 4 5 5. Blurt out whatever comes into my mind. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Make decisions slowly. 1 2 3 4 5 7. Plan ahead and stick to it. 1 2 3 4 5 8. Purchase only practical things. 1 2 3 4 5 9. Quickly think up new ideas. 1 2 3 4 5 10. Often think about the possibility of negative outcomes that are not likely to occur. 1 2 3 4 5 11. Jump into things without thinking. 1 2 3 4 5 12. Know that my ideas sometimes surprise people. 1 2 3 4 5

Well I was fully dressed and just on the floor, rather than like tumbling around moaning, at that point. And her catchphrase is "You alright?". Plus she's a third year so probably assumes all freshers are on hard drugs or something. She's nice though, and she's the one who made me a bag of stuff to take to hospital.

Oh yeah, I didn't explain. It was most likely an allergic reaction something. Rhe mystery is that it could only have been the pepperoni pizza of pear cider I had JUST prior to leaving my friends house and the symptoms appearing. I have pepperoni pizza all the time/all my life, so I'd imagine it was the cider, something I'd never had. HOWEVER my gut instincts are telling me it's the pizza, or...something some pizzas use and some other don't. I had pizza hut the other day completely fine, but this random place made me go insane...and I'm sure the last time I had the tiny version of the rash on my arm (not even visible unless you were aware of it), I'm sure it was after pizza. Mysterious.

Sensationalist title - not quite so dramatic. But yeah. I went into what felt like severe (but was probably/was fairly minor) anaphylactic shock/similar tonight, after eating a pepperoni pizza and having a pint of pear Koppaberg (it must have been one of these two things that caused ). I left my friends halls after dinner and on the walk home felt very itchy and hot (not sweaty or tired), and realised I had lumps on my arms and legs. I'd had similar before, in a tiny localised area, and it went area after like 20 minutes. I attritubed past experience to heat rash or something. But this was monsterous. I felt like a young mutant on the verge of discovering their powers, skin all disgusting looking. Anyway, I kinda panicked as it was incredibly serious looking, and rushed home. My breathing became heavier, but I thought this might just be because I was panicking. Ran past my flatmate and jumped into a freezing shower, which cooled down the horrible lumpy rash (as I knew from research on heat rash stuff), but then I became massively dizzy, couldn't breathe, and I saw flashing in my vision. I kept kinda blinking in and out of conciousness, like finding myself on the floor. Anyway. I couldn't get up without my head and eyes exploding, and feeling the worst nausea ever, and I was just moaning like "Fuck my life..." whilst thinking I might actually be dying (genuinely - I was thinking about who to phone). I went a little bit blind, I couldn't see anything. I eventually just like crawled/rolled out my door and into my hallway, where my flatmate was like "You alright?", clearly assuming I was tripping or something, like finding me in the foetal position on the floor. Then I was like "Actually Chanley, can I have an ambulance?" (I loved this phrasing even at the time, as though she dispensed them). Then everyone else in my flat appeared like between one of my vision flashes and generally I felt like like a Lion In A Coma and couldn't breathe properly. Everyone was like "Don't Give Up - You Still Have Friends", and called an ambulance, which either arrived REALLY fast, or I passed out again. Either way Bonnie and Clyde (as I named them) were really nice and generally by the time I had explained my life/changed out of my freezing, wet clothes and was in the back of the ambulance, I was already feeling much better. They couldn't find a vein in arms to use or something, and in the end we went to hospital. Which was the most pointless 4 hours of my life. The bedrest (all 20 mins of it) probably did me good, but basically the woman was like "YEAH buy some stuff from Tesco, it's cheaper there than here", then like mumbled and backed out the room. I assumed she'd be back, and then hours later she was like "Oh, you were free to go." So, I'm alive. But it was an incredibly scary and traumatic experience. Also my first trip to hospital as an "emergency". Also, as many of you know I've been toying with getting a tattoo for ages, and would have done If I could decide on something. One of my best friends at Uni is really impulsive/has tattoos and piercings, and he's rubbing off on me (Lul). And now with this experience (though I'm sure tame for most others with really bad medical conditions ) I feel like life is too short ti fuck about. I'm gonna get my tattoo v. soon. tl; dr - Traumatic, isolating first trip to A&E, thought I was going to die. I obviously wasn't anywhere near though. -- Anyone else have any horrible/interesting stories about A&E visits?

" I came. " - Woman's Own

Sorry. I just think it's all flash and no substance. It gets under my skin for some reason. The Jim Lee thing isn't about anyone else, it's with me too (he's a nice artist, and his work feels "definitive"). I got Batman Legends when it first came out in 2004, in which Hush was printed as the first story. I used to read all my Marvel and DC Uk collector's edition comics over and over. So I read it loads when I was younger.

I perspire to participate.

Oh, ok. *arguement is snuffed out* But srsly, Hush riles me. Just because it's raised up too much, compared to a lot of other Batman storylines. Mainly Grant Morrison's huge saga, that has been unravelling for 4 years now. <3 But not even just that (as that is understandably very divisive).

I have, a zillion times. After a while you realise it's Jeph Loeb writing, and it's just...so bloated and as I said, thinks it's this definitive work of art, a milestone in the mythos, when in fact it's incredibly standard. It's like a parade of badly used villain for Jim Lee to draw. The mystery/big reveal is very nothing. At least the actual reveal. The one you think is the reveal (in the graveyard, yeah you know which one i mean) was good/shocking. But then it turns out to be a lie. The whole thing just reeks of flat pancakes. Loeb's other Batman stuff with Tim Sale is much better, at least the material I've read. Jim Lee tricks people. See: All-Star Batman and Robin. That isn't very good, but you're lulled somehow by Jim Lee's art into thinking it's definitive or important (albiet briefly).

Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis and X-Men Legacy. The end. --- My Hush bashing in the Superman thread leads somewhat nicely into this new story: Batman - Europa I loved Batman: Broken City by Azzarello, and Jim Lee is guaranteed sales, so hope this is good.

I love River Cruise! How it's so dated, but they then made that part of the joke, but having entertaining guides. The Disney/Universal workers often stun in conversation. And have their own opinions on life, willing to share.

All you American Beauty haterz can go suck a lemon.

Hush (the storyline) is the most overrated thing. And apparently the character is treated like shite after that, so yeah. The story is just Batman wandering around meeting his classic villains until he meets Hush in a shit battle. It's so much nothing. It thinks it's a definitive run on a classic character, when in fact if it wasn't Jim Lee drawing everyone ever, no one would care about it. If you want brilliant new villains in the Batman universe, just turn to Professor Pyg and Doctro Hurt, created by Grant Morrison.

I love! Though you ruined it by mentioning Hush. He's rubbish.

Oh right. Okay. I need to buy myself a new tpb. I should probably just get the next installment of The Invisibles.

Well it's the most prone to being intermittently shite, due to it being the "backbone" of the comics industry, and having like...hundreds of titles out a month from loads of companies.

I love pre-drinking, it just so rarely happens. People used to always meet in town... Last time I got completely wasted was due to my friend having proper pre-drinks and jelly/o shots with vodka etc. I lap it up.