Lateshift Hates the Dreaded Page Nine!

00:32 / 01.08.08

A narrow brush with the dreaded Nine has landed us here: Shiftlandia, the great, towering city of Lately.

00:35 / 01.08.08

It's always good to run up and touch the abyss for a moment. Makes you an ipssissisomethingorother.

Good save, though. Nice to visit Page 9, but well, I've lived there before. It's like escaping Cleveland.

00:38 / 01.08.08

Someone's been rereading their Invisibles.

Welcome to the capital city of Lately: steam-baths on every street. It's touched by darkness, of course, having seen the abyss--but there's so much neon! You may want to close your eyes at times. Give them a rest.

Ah, good ol' page 9.

Steam baths. Y'know, I think I'm slowly working to a lifestyle where the only time I get out of the pool is for a hot bath. I'm going to grow fins and an orange shirt any day now.

00:47 / 01.08.08

O, Aquatripper! (Hey, good suitname...)

00:48 / 01.08.08

I could live in my shower, of course.

00:48 / 01.08.08

Sure, but its the pants that make the man. If you aren't decked-out in greenscale you just aren't trying.

and a golden hook-hand couldnt hurt.

00:49 / 01.08.08

Well, chopping off the original hand probably would...

Liger Null

00:51 / 01.08.08

What about a matching golden peg-leg?

00:54 / 01.08.08

Well, when it can turn into a proper hand, anyway. I mean, what if I'm trying to get the hair out of my face and... or worse roll over in bed and scratch an itch. Oi.

I actually have no idea what old Talks to Fish is up to in current continuity. I hope there's a Mera or Dolphin in there somewhere. Them, I liked.

(I just mistyped that 'Them, I lived.' Make of that what you can.)

00:56 / 01.08.08

Someone remind me to be Auqatripper in a few weeks. It's splashy!

00:57 / 01.08.08

I've known for a while now that you were a screen name of Mera's.

I have no idea. I don't get the impression DC knows, either. Normal strength Aquaman was gone while a younger version was running around, apparently different but entirely duplicated. I didn't really get it. Again, I don't think DC did, either. He had a good team-up with Metamorpho, though--with some nice art.

00:57 / 01.08.08

I'll remind you. I think I'm going to be The "Fact" is.

01:01 / 01.08.08

Im going to have to make a chart of barbname changes.

01:02 / 01.08.08

That's a good one.

I still think, really, the only things this board needs to keep going is a Comics forum and an open lateshift. I - quite solipsistically - shelve everything else in Other.

01:03 / 01.08.08

And I may bring back the Barbe-mythology thread, since so many have shifted far in their handles, new folks have arrived, and probably a few old guard are now unidentifiable if you're just running from on-the-board information.

01:12 / 01.08.08

Yay! You should do that immediately.

01:13 / 01.08.08

...I still think that description of me-as-Papers that you gave is one of the most brilliant, ever.

01:25 / 01.08.08

Which thread was that? My memory isnt at its best right now. I need coffee.

01:26 / 01.08.08

People described what they imagined people were based on suitnames. I can't remember what it was called, exactly.

01:31 / 01.08.08

Took a long time to find because I thought I'd google first. Not my most shining moment.

Anyhow, it's back up on its suppositional legs now.

01:33 / 01.08.08

Holy cats! Kegs, you're the one to describe me this:

Papers Looks like DC's The Question and wherever he/she goes a trail of papers appears behine him/her.

01:35 / 01.08.08

That's def. the best Papers description ever. So dashing and definitive.

01:48 / 01.08.08

Arrr! Facehugger must die!

Yes, I love it to this day. I can even imagine the skulking alleyway, the gloves--because who wants to get newsprint all over their hands?--and the dinginess.

01:51 / 01.08.08

yeah. and for some reason I always picture the trench and hat looking an oily greyish-black.

01:52 / 01.08.08

Because I'm not the Sunday Colour Supplement, obvs.

Maybe I'll switch it up when my 28 days concludes, to Dashing, Mister Papers or something similar.

01:53 / 01.08.08

(because I'm in love with suitname punctuation)

01:58 / 01.08.08

I think the only time I tried punctuation in there, it somewhere went weird. What I typed was not what was seen.

02:03 / 01.08.08

I'm fond of exclamation points in suitnames, which is somewhat counter-personality for me. I am not, on the whole, prone to them in general.

02:08 / 01.08.08

Clearly, you just aren't reading enough comics. Elliot S! Maggin made me Pavlov's exclamatory hound. Or something of that sort.

Love the exclamation mark! C'mon! Show it some love!

02:13 / 01.08.08

!!!

Which reminds me of Middleman, an episode involving a new kind of pop called !!! which kept being referred to in dialogue and was indicated by a kind of "jazz hands" / excited gaping mouth combination.

02:16 / 01.08.08

I havent seen Middlemen but I plan on it asap.

02:18 / 01.08.08

You should see my new novel's half-draft. Named a character and a magazine just that, and then let the rest of the character deal with it differently, from avoidance, to innovative sounds and gutturals, or just using their given name instead. ! is fun.