{"id":7817,"date":"2005-08-07T03:27:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T10:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/07\/bt05-if-this-be-blogathon.html"},"modified":"2005-08-07T03:27:10","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T10:27:10","slug":"bt05_if_this_be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/bt05_if_this_be.html","title":{"rendered":"BT05 &#8211; If This Be &#8230; Blogathon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case it&#8217;s not obviousl, I&#8217;ve been scouring my <em>Essential FF<\/em> and <em>Essential Avengers<\/em> for suitable blog titles.  Stan the Man sure had a way of making them ring, didn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last installment, I suspect, of the Comics I&#8217;m Reading Recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Young Avengers<\/em> #4-5 (Marvel):  Kang has come back to bring himself &#8212; here present as &#8220;Iron Lad&#8221; &#8212; back to the future.  The Avengers have no choice but to help &#8212; and the other YA kind of agree, given what else is as stake.  But when Kang turns on them all, it&#8217;s up to the YA to take him down &#8230;  As goofy as the whole concept sounds (particularly for the Marvel Universe), YA is a solid title, written well and believably by Allan Heinberg, co-written and pencilled by Jim Cheung.  Intriguing, interesting, and attractive.  One to watch.\n<li><em>Y: the Last Man<\/em> #34-36 (Vertigo):  Yorick and Co. are aboard a luxury liner that, unbeknownst to them, is a key carrier for the drug trade from the States to Australia.  The last elements of the Aussie Navy are out to stop them, and Yorick has to decide if he&#8217;s going to go down with the ship.  Meanwhile, Yorick&#8217;s girlfriend is the captive of the Aborigines, and is in a dreamtime flashback of her past with Yorick.  This fascinating story by Brian Vaughan of the last man on Earth continues apace.  Good stuff.<\/ul>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m going to stand up and walk around for a few minutes, before getting back to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case it&#8217;s not obviousl, I&#8217;ve been scouring my Essential FF and Essential Avengers for suitable blog titles. 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