I’m a huge fan of Althouse, been reading her since she started writing her blog almost ten years ago. (Full disclosure: I’m also a law professor at UW in Madison

COBAG!!!

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

We’re probably of different generations. The generation that near-immediately followed mine in superhero geekdom almost universally lusted after Ms. Pryde, and since Whedon brought her back a few years ago as a grown up, I can appreciate their appreciation for her. When she was a twerp with a fucking dragon whom Wolverine referred to as ‘punkin’, though, I couldn’t stand her. Of course, I wasn’t buying the X-books by then, either, and wouldn’t be until Mr. Buffy came along decades down the line.

For your generation, most of the big imaginary lust objects were drawn by either John Byrne or Art Adams, and since your generation, the boykids are all slobbering after manga-chicks. In my generation, we liked our sex objects by Kirby, Colan, Kane, and Wood (I probably should have mentioned Wally Wood’s splendiferous Karen Page, although all the shine came off that apple when David Mazzuchelli and Frank Miller reimagined her as an anorexic junkie ho in BORN AGAIN).

Oh, and my other major lust objects in the 70s were any characters drawn by Dave Cockrum for SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPERHEROES. His female Legionnaires were simply sizzlin’ pieces of eye candy, and his Lana Lang still makes Kristin Kruek look dowdy.

Anyway, as I was saying: Althouse is brave, brilliant, and wittier than Gavin will ever be. Take that, you bunch of immature, abusive sheep.

And Spez, if A.A. could actually write, your comments might mean something. The fact that she cannot and has the lowest self esteem possible especially for a lawyer makes her all the more trite and sad. If you don’t believe me watch her video from CNN on election night. She has to take a video close-up of her name! Come on. Annie has flights of fancy about her writing, her self esteem and whether anyone truly cares about her. UW made a mistake when they hired you and her.

but he never pays any attention to me.

PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!

She takes herself way too seriously.

About the superhero ladies, though, when I was in high school I had a supercrush on Shadowcat. She had a pretty damn cool power and hung out with superheroes that played in bands and stuff.

As for beer, my comment earlier stands. Rogue brewery is good stuff and freaking everywhere. I prefer Dead Guy to Arrogant Bastard because the label on the bottle glows in the dark.