10 Fictional Characters I'd Do....

I got this from serafina20 and many other sites.... I was trying to resist, but I can't, its too much fun.

Men
1. Francis Crawford of Lymond (from Dorothy Dunnett's novels)
2. Mal Reynolds (Firefly)
3. Aral Vorkosigan (Lois McMaster Bujold's novels)
4. Lex Luthor (Smallville)
5. Remy Lebeau - Gambit (X-Men)
6. Bruce Wayne - Batman (Batman - the comics, not the movies)
7. Methos (Highlander)
8. Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
9. Aragorn (The Lord of the Rings, book or movie)
10. Faramir (The Lord of the Rings, movie version)

Women
1. Zoe (Firefly)
2. Inrara (Firefly)
3. Kaylee (Firefly)
4. Chloe Sullivan (Smallville)
5. Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean)
6. Kate Somerville [from Dorothy Dunnett's novels)
7. Supergirl - Kara Zor-El (DC comics - now-defunct continuity)
8. Mystique (X-Men, movie version)
9. Hopey (Love and Rockets)
10. Robin Monroe [from the movie Seven Days, Seven Nights)

Other
Desire, from the Neil Gaiman Sandman comics.

Note: all choices subject to change without notice.

The Incredible Hulk....

I don't, as a rule, read The Incredible Hulk. I always quite liked Bruce Banner but the Hulk was bore and the stories didn't do much for me.

So after a lifetime of not reading The Incredible Hulk, today I read the graphic novel, The Incredible Hulk: Return of the Monster by Bruce Jones and John Romita, Jr.

It was damn good.

The plot was quite amazing. It had excellent characterization, giving me a new look at characters I'd read before, but which had never seemed so real. It was convincing, plausible, suspenseful - and the plot and cahracters tied together with a click so surprising and delightful that I thought: Why can't more stories do this?

It seems to warrant continuation. I'll have to see if there's a sequel.

Once upon a time I thought John Romita, Jr., was a boring artist. Now he draws like a European. I've liked his work ever since his Cable miniseries. Now... more than ever.