In its enchanting Queer Eye on Comics column, Prism crunches the numbers on the first issue of Rob Liefeld’s Avengers Vol. 2, #1. My favorite entries in the data column:
- Total number of uses of the word mine in this issue, as spoken by Asgardian characters, Loki, Thor and the Enchantress: 24
- Number of times mine is used incorrectly, according to the definition: 19
- Number of times my is used by an Asgardian instead of mine: 2
- Number of times this occurs in the same word balloon as an incorrect use of mine: 1
Even after all these years, I’m still not tired of laughing at that comic.
Completely unrelated (or is it?), Gene Simmons of KISS may submit himself to the tender mercies of the Fab Five of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. To be filed under: “apocalypse, signs of…”