Wolverine and Jubilee #1...

Remember Jubilee? She used to be a great kid. Turned up back in 1989 in X-Men as a smart'n'sassy Los Angeles teen mutant 'mall rat', which confused me a little because I'd never heard the term before. She teamed up with Wolverine a lot and they had some wild adventured, Batman and Robin style.



Of course I remember Jubilee well: I named a budgie after her. But the latest appearance of Jubilee, in Wolverine and Jubilee #1, had me alarmed. It isn't the same old Jubilee I knew and loved.

At least they're doing something with her.

( Now Jubilee is a vampire... )

The Code of Kings...

Tonight I watched Cracking the Maya Code, a Nova programme about Linda Schele and Peter Matthews, and the deciphering of the Mayan hieroglyphs.

It was wonderful to see Matthews and Schele; I got their book, The Code of Kings, as a Christmas gift.