Xmen eats my head...

[neotoma]

Last week, tartanshell posted her very cute story for xmmficathon : Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda, in which Movieverse Scott Summers has taken a job as camp couselor for college credit, and meets someone even worse with people than he.

Which made me remember her lovely stories Office Hours (where Peter Parker finds out something odd about his college instructor, Hank McCoy), and its sequel, The Wisdom to Know the Difference.

So I've spent the last week reading XMM and X-comic-fic, mainly centering on Beast (utter geeks are my type, but you knew that). It's been fun, digging up links to stories I read back when I was in Xmen fandom, but I'd like recs to more recent stuff. There's a lot that's gone on in the books in the last years -- and I've been re-reading my comic books too -- that I don't know the fic for. Anyone know where the current archives are?

Also, there's something that's bothered me about comics canon, but I think it's just because I actually took mammalogy. Do the writers realize that all felines are obligate carnivores? Past the carnassial shears, cats don't have functional molars -- they have to eat meat because they can't chew plants.

This would absolutely suck if you'd been pretty normal (for a Marvelverse value of 'normal') beforehand and now had to adapt to a really screwy diet that was meat, meat, meat, and meat with occasional bones for chasers. Not to mention the whole things about cats not being able to taste sweetness -- if Hank is actually that feline now, he would have confused everyone by abandoning Twinkies and other junk food...

And would the artists decided if he's plantigrade or digitigrade, please?

Comments

[hlglne.livejournal.com]

This makes me feel much better about my sectret love for Wolverine in yellow.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I've been reading Xmen for years and years, and they've finally got some really good writers (Joss Whedon!) on it who are actually treating it like sociological SF. I'm having fun.

And is that Wolverine in his old yellow-and-blue costume that you mean?