Runaways#15 Humor & News....
Mood:  happy
Topic: Distinguished Competition
I have two conjoined quotes from Marvel's Runaways#15, but first wanted to note that one of the Runaways is going to die in an upcoming issue and I fear it is Nico, my favorite character! All of the signs in current dialogue implicate that something is going to happen to her. I won't go into detail in case you haven't read this issue yet. On to the humorous....

Molly: "It'd be so cool if we got to fight another animal bad guy like Rhino or Vulture. I'd give anything to punch a Giraffe Man."

Nico: "Molly, we're going into battle against dangerous criminals, not collecting Pokemon."

Molly: "I was kidding, Nico. And Pokemon stopped being cool, like, a hundred years ago."

Nico: "Sorry. I'm just grumpy 'cause my mouth is killing me. I'm done with the whole cutting thing, so I had to brush until my gums bled to get the Staff of One to appear."

Ultimate Spider-man Quote
Mood:  mischievious
Topic: Distinguished Competition
From Ultimate Spider-man#92 by Brian Michael Bendis:

Colossus: "...if Kitty attacked you, and Storm attacked me... we're dealing with a shapeshifter."

Spider-man: "Or, women have decided to take over the world. I knew it was coming, but no one listens to me."

Funny Story from Powers#14 by Marvel/Icon
Mood:  loud
Topic: Distinguished Competition
This is a story being told by a comedienne in Powers#14, one of the interludes Bendis has used recently to break up the main story. I censored out the F-words due to content:

"And you know why everyone is so disappointing? Because deep down, they are cowards. Cowards. The whole world has turned into a bunch of Cowards. You know how, don't you? The Internet. The F#$%ing Internet. It feeds cowards. People going online every night and just bashing the shit out of whatever they can get their hands on. And you know that these same people sit quietly in their cubicles or at their little desks or at their dinner table. They sit there all day and don't say a f$#%ing word to anyone about anything. All day long they sit there and just take shit. Then they go online and 'F$#% This' and 'F$%# That' and 'This Guy's a Fucker' and nyah, nyah, nyah... and I know they're cowards because I walk around all day with my ears wide f#$%ing open and I don't hear anyone say anything even close to the shit I read online. All I see are people cowering in the corner with their f$#%ing I-pods. And yes, it's okay to speak your mind. Of course it's okay to speak your mind, sure. But this is coward talk. This is stuff you wouldn't dare say to anyone's face. Let alone the bands or whoever they're talking about. You got something to say? Sign your Name to it! I'm up here, my name is Adrienne, and I live on the west side.
But you know what? Whoever signs on as Retrocuntz...I don't give a shit what you think, no one cares what you think--you're an asshole! You're a f#$%ing coward asshole that's why your life is the way it is. Because you let it happen. You're too much of a coward to make your dreams come true, so you go onine and bash?? F$#% You."

Funny Quote from The Pulse#13 by Marvel
Mood:  surprised
Topic: Distinguished Competition
In The Pulse#13, Jessica Jones is finally going into labor with the baby she conceived with Luke Cage revealed at the end of her initial series, Alias. As Jess is pushing, she tells Ms. Marvel to tell Luke about the time she was pregnant (which is actually a true story circa Avengers#200) :

Ms. Marvel: "Couple of years ago... I was pregnant. Technically. And I went to full-term in a couple of weeks, and I gave birth... And the baby grew to manhood in a day. Ends up it was a prince from another dimention who used me to birth himself into this dimension. Because he... wanted to meet me. And he, well, he hypnotized me and took me back to his dimension. Bascially raping my body and mind until I broke free and got back to Earth."

(silent stares of shock)

Ms. Marvel: "But I really doubt that's going to happen to you now. I mean, odds alone..."

Then, Jessica finally gives birth to her healthy baby girl, and Luke proposes to her right there.

Funny Quote from Witchblade#94 by Top Cow
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Distinguished Competition
In Witchblade #94, Sara says to her partner, Gleason:
"What is it with you?? It's like your uncanny mutant ability is to find
the nastiest cup of coffee in Manhattan and hand it to me on a regular basis."

New Topic Divider Added
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Distinguished Competition
I added the new Topic Divider for "Distinguished Competition", which will be used for any posts relating to other companies' comic books, such as Marvel, DC, Top Cow, etc. We can't hate on our competition, it was growing up with them that drove us to do what we do today.