I am indeed listening. I think I'm going to see it on Saturday night so we can talk after that. Well, after that and my honeymoon.
However, having said that, my X-Men experience is probably less broad than yours. It was the first comic I started to collect and I managed to re-read a lot of the early Claremont/Byrne stuff in the Classic X-Men series and then dropped it when Claremont left the first time, which was some time in the early nineties. I didn't start to read it again until Grant Morrison started up with New X-Men. However, I do know the Dark Phoenix saga pretty well. The cure for mutation is the Joss Whedon storyline from Astonishing, isn't it?
What would be fun is to get the DVD when it comes out and then sit there with the Dark Phoenix collection and mt Astonishing hardcover and play 'spot the swipe'. (Easier to do with Sin City, probably...)
And I'll let you know what you missed at the end of the credits!
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However, having said that, my X-Men experience is probably less broad than yours. It was the first comic I started to collect and I managed to re-read a lot of the early Claremont/Byrne stuff in the Classic X-Men series and then dropped it when Claremont left the first time, which was some time in the early nineties. I didn't start to read it again until Grant Morrison started up with New X-Men. However, I do know the Dark Phoenix saga pretty well. The cure for mutation is the Joss Whedon storyline from Astonishing, isn't it?
What would be fun is to get the DVD when it comes out and then sit there with the Dark Phoenix collection and mt Astonishing hardcover and play 'spot the swipe'. (Easier to do with Sin City, probably...)
And I'll let you know what you missed at the end of the credits!