Ach. Christmas holidays spent doing maths revision =/= no fanfic finished at all. Diddly squat. I've got jackks bugging me to handle a Grim Fandango plot bunny, but I'm getting guilt trips because I started HSE over a year ago and I still haven't finished the bloody thing yet (nowhere near ending it, either, which could be a cause for celebration or a hearty groan, depending on your viewpoint).



Meanwhile, procrastinating as usual, I got the chance to leaf through UXM#89. How bloody pointless is the issue? Between despising the cover art, the randomness of what little plot there was and wondering just what the fuck was going on, I found time to compare their Shadow King to the 616!Shadow King, who appears in Uncanny X-Men #117 before Xavier has a psychic duel with him over Storm, effectively killing him but really subjecting him to permanent mental agony. As you do.

Farouk, an obese telepath in a fez and three piece white suit, could very easily have been a pimp. He'd even got the cane and the statutory pair of scantily dressed women following him around. That said, Ororo was very young at the time, and pick-pocketing for him rather than anything else unsavoury. However, the character's transformation between verses amused me.

His Ultimate upheaval is much more appealing physically, but almost painfully melodramatic. Nothing like a jilted, basically imaginary angsty lover to start the evening, is there? Christ. It almost gives me security to think that my plots maybe aren't as bizarre as I think they are, compared to the comics.