Link round-up

[rachelmanija]

Majinkarp reviews manga: Saikano, Doll, and The Legend of Chun Hwang. In the comments, I explain why fists are better than swords but swords are better than guns, and where ki fits in. http://www.livejournal.com/users/majinkarp/126779.html#cutid1

John Scalzi offers a guide to Real World Book Descriptions. Make sure you read the comments too.
http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/archives/001126.html

Hesychasm has a traumatic search-and-replace incident. http://www.livejournal.com/users/hesychasm/100830.html

Fruits Basket tops the manga bestseller list. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=5433

Poilass explains the history of the X-Men.

"EVIL TWINS: Enough X-Men have evil twins that I thought I should cover them separately."

"NON-CANON PAIRINGS: Xavier/Magneto. Many people feel that this is actually a canon pairing, and they do indeed sometimes behave like people who are enemies because they had a really bad break up ("Charles! Give me back my Bee Gees albums or I shall DESTROY THE WORLD!")."

http://www.livejournal.com/community/crack_van/14708.html#cutid1

Comments

[larryhammer]

Wait, Xavier/Magneto isn't canon? I'm sooo out of touch.

---L.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

The Book Deal thing made me laugh until I hurt. Thank you.

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

I've been lurking for a week or so, enjoying your anime reviews (Evangelion was hysterical - and accurate - sacrilege!).

Thanks for these - the X Men link is a hoot, and I'm passing it on to all my friends I've forced the Joss Whedon comics on....