A splash page from Superman #688
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So what do you guys think of this scene? My view of it was that Mitch was hitting on
This book is pretty neat. Is anyone else here picking it up? I LOVE Renato Guedes' art so much, and the writing is picking up.
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Date: 2009-06-01 07:17 pm (UTC)As a Brit, we call it "cocoa" too, but the other term is "hot chocolate", "drinking chocolate" is known, but rarely used.
Mitch could well be trying to chat him up, but he needs to work on his line "Geez, you ain't done much with YOUR life" is pretty much guaranteed to NOT make we want to give your cafe business.
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Date: 2009-06-01 07:22 pm (UTC)I've never called it "cocoa", and never heard it called "cocoa" in Newfoundland or Ontario, so I'm wondering if that's an American/British thing, or if I just live in a spot where everyone calls it "hot chocolate".
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Date: 2009-06-01 11:05 pm (UTC)Which is a shame, cos it sounds so proper.
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Date: 2009-06-02 07:52 am (UTC)Americans have come to use the terms "hot chocolate" and "hot cocoa" interchangeably, obscuring the considerable difference between the two. "Hot cocoa" is made from powder made by extracting most of the rich cocoa butter from the ground cacao beans. "Hot chocolate," on the other hand, is made directly from bar chocolate, which already contains cocoa, sugar and cocoa butter. Thus the major difference between the two is the cocoa butter, which makes hot cocoa significantly lower in fat than hot chocolate, while still preserving all the intrinsic health-giving properties of chocolate.
Hot chocolate can be made with dark, semisweet, or bittersweet chocolate, chopped into small pieces and stirred into milk with the addition of sugar. American hot cocoa powder often includes powdered milk or other dairy ingredients so it can be made without using milk.
In the United Kingdom, "hot chocolate" is a sweet chocolate drink made with hot milk or water, and powder containing chocolate, sugar, and powdered milk. "Cocoa" usually refers to a similar drink made with just hot milk and cocoa powder, then sweetened to taste with sugar.
And now I want some! But it's a boiling hot day and it's bad for the teeth.. but even so... :(
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Date: 2009-06-02 01:50 pm (UTC)Mmmm. It does say right there that cocoa has health-giving properties!
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Date: 2009-06-02 07:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-02 07:48 am (UTC)Cadbury's definitely marketed their chocolate drink as "Drinking Chocolate" rather than "Cocoa" and Bournville released theirs as "Cocoa", so it might have been a consicous efffort not to differnetiate between the drinks, but the major manufacturers.
Indeed, there used to be an advert in the UK for Cadbury's which used the lines
"Cup hands, here comes Cadbury's
Cup hands, drinking chocolate
Cup hands, here comes Cadbury's now"
but that was probably last screened in the 80's or early 90's.
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Date: 2009-06-01 07:28 pm (UTC)I wouldn't call that a splash page, though. Two-page spread? A splash would be all one panel.
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Date: 2009-06-02 05:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-01 07:43 pm (UTC)JoeyMitch says, "Hey, Jon! How you doin'?"no subject
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Date: 2009-06-01 08:30 pm (UTC)At first I just accepted it as "Oh, a super-friendly businessperson. He's like that neighborhood mom who always tries to feed all her kid's friends," but by the point where he segued into talking about Paris, then I looked back and said, "Flirt."
Mon-El's sure come a long way from waiting on a cure for lead poisoning in the Phantom Zone.
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Date: 2009-06-01 11:09 pm (UTC)The panel where he tastes the food and his hand is all curly curled is a great bit of observational drawing.
I didn't read it as flirting, but now you've mentioned it, I can see that. And I am seeing THINGS in the sentence about engines pulling in at stations.
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Date: 2009-06-02 07:51 am (UTC)And no, panini should NOT look like it's been cut from a pizza, they are rectangular in shape, not sliced from a circle.
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Date: 2009-06-02 04:54 pm (UTC)And yeah, that's a pass if I've ever seen one.
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Date: 2009-06-02 05:04 pm (UTC)Didn't Mon-El find out he's dying? Isn't that the perfect time for "Time is running out, and I've never really experienced much, certainly not luuuv, oh hey here's this cute guy, maybe I'll experience some love and then die in his arms or go off into another dimension never to see him again".
Then again the "don't be a stranger"-comment is a bit of a "shoo, go away now". Unless of course Monny is on his way out there.
I would like to point out my knowledge of Mon-Els backstory is limited at best, and don't know if he's ever been romantically linked with anyone.
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Date: 2009-06-05 12:25 am (UTC)