Sunday Trade: Longshot

Longshot written by Ann Nocenti, drawn by Art Adams, inks by Whilce Portacio, letters by Joe Rosen, colors by Christie Scheele

X-Men. Alien Messiah. Rebel Leader. Hero. All that and the dreamiest eyes in all of Marvel-dom. I mean according to the ladies. I haven't noticed. Ahem...

Anyway, Nocenti's origin for Longshot has him awakening on Earth as a complete tabla rasa, no memories of his past and no clue about the present. So of course he's immediately involves himself in the rescue of a baby from a pack of alien beast-men. What else do you do when your mind is blank but your heart is pure?

Nocenti delivers a story where Longshot is confused, lost, innocent, naive and above all heroic. And she manages what I've rarely seen since. She makes Longshot's nemesis, the other-dimensional tyrant Mojo seem both alien and terrible. Plus she adds in Dr. Strange for the second half and actually makes the character fit. Another rarity...

Still Waiting, more like Still Sucking, amirite?

So apparantly the way to get me interested in seeing a Dane Cook movie is to show a god-awful preview for the sequel to a movie I already hated.