LNH/REVIEW: Kid Review's Roundup - February 2014

[Andrew Perron]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 02:34:18 +0000 (UTC), Tom Russell wrote:

> On Sunday, March 2, 2014 9:06:54 PM UTC-5, Andrew Perron wrote:
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>> Fascinating! That's entirely fair. (I wonder if this had anything to do
>> with the dislike of alternate universes you once had?)
> 
> It might've, though I wouldn't have been aware of it. My two main reasons
> for disliking the trope were (1) that stories in an alternate universe
> didn't "count" the way in-continuity stories do, and (2) a not-unreasonable
> allergic reaction to alternate-future-destiny-people and lookalike
> refugees. I'm softened on the first one, especially after discovering the
> many joys and sorrows of oldschool Imaginary Stories and looser, more
> iconic continuities, but I'm still not big on the second. What can I say?
> Reading comics in the nineties will turn you off of a lot of genre tropes.

That's fair. I remember you mentioning Age of Apocalypse, specifically. Of
course, the X-books' addiction to that trope is a result of how fabulously
good Days of Future Past is, so.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, who quite likes the All-New X-Men