[NON BLOG] Lunch with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
talktooloose
Jan. 18th, 2005 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI'd lunch with talktooloose at an excellent Mediterranean/Middle Eastern restaurant yesterday afternoon on Yonge just south and west of St. Clair yesterday. Much fun was had by me, over my chicken shawarma plate.
One subject of conversation that I particularly enjoyed was a comparison of the DC and Marvel universes, specifically of the Justice League of America versus the X-Men. My acquaintance with comics is limited, I fear, but I've always garnered the impression that the X-Men are more realistic, that they are subject to the normal dynamics of any group of changing individuals and that the world hasn't been radically transformed. (In the JLA universe, to name only one element, the multiple massive alien incursions made over the 1990s, including at least one effort to blot out the Sun, should have created a universe wherein Star Wars would look like a good investment. Astalktooloose explained it, the X-Men have an element of dynamic realism to them that's rather attractive.
UPDATE (11:56 PM) : Or not. Turns out I inversed things rather completely.
talktooloose at an excellent Mediterranean/Middle Eastern restaurant yesterday afternoon on Yonge just south and west of St. Clair yesterday. Much fun was had by me, over my chicken shawarma plate.One subject of conversation that I particularly enjoyed was a comparison of the DC and Marvel universes, specifically of the Justice League of America versus the X-Men. My acquaintance with comics is limited, I fear, but I've always garnered the impression that the X-Men are more realistic, that they are subject to the normal dynamics of any group of changing individuals and that the world hasn't been radically transformed. (In the JLA universe, to name only one element, the multiple massive alien incursions made over the 1990s, including at least one effort to blot out the Sun, should have created a universe wherein Star Wars would look like a good investment. As
talktooloose explained it, the X-Men have an element of dynamic realism to them that's rather attractive.UPDATE (11:56 PM) : Or not. Turns out I inversed things rather completely.
