Appreciation and purple prose on a train

I had the dubious pleasure of traveling to Bergen with a train carriage filled with middle-aged Spanish ladies. Hands flying everywhere, my seat was continuously vibrating from the motion.

It was fascinating to watch them appreciate the nature flying by, and the Oslo-Bergen journey is a very scenic route. They must have taken about a thousand pictures, beginning with motives I've always found pretty unremarkable; a small red boathouse by a lake, a hill with grazing cows...

I've lost count how many times I've traveled on that train, but they made me appreciate it again, like I was watching those snow-tipped mountains reflected in still lakes for the first time; tunnels carved out of the living rock, grassy hills with cavorting lambs like a Bob Ross painting, metallic blue ponds of icy water on the mountain plateau and a sky as big as anything. Man, it's all beautiful.

And then stepping off in Bergen on a beautiful warm summer day, the familiar smell of lilacs overwhelming me just as the frenzied accordion in 'Vesoul' starts playing on my mp3 player. Perfect.

Legitimizing having a Deadpool icon

I just learned that one of my TPBs of 'Cable & Deadpool' is missing a text box that was in the original issue #4 (mine doesn't have the "Not that there's anything wrong with that!" line).

HAHA WHUT. They removed a gay reference from an issue of 'Cable & Deadpool'. If they were actually trying to protect the reader's precious sensibilities that's one hell of a road to go down. If you were to remove all the jokes about Wade's ambiguous sexuality I'd guess the seven-volume strong series would be drastically shortened.

I think I'll choose to believe they did it without thinking when they edited out the "To be continued" bit - which is still a pity, it makes me wonder if they edited out other punchlines.

Haha, I can't believe I'm rereading 'Cable & Deadpool' YET AGAIN. And I've just come to the juicy Divorce bit. Again.

COMIC BOOK ANGST, IT SUSTAINS ME.