House of M. I believe it was the big crossover event for last year for Marvel (Civil War being the current one), though House of M is more similar to the classic Age of Apocalypse in its tinkering with characters and setting. This one was especially interesting in contrast as instead of a more likely trope of worst-conditions-possible, say, here each of the characters supposedly had the life they really desired. Naturally, what's supposed to be a utopia really ends up not being such, of course, and that's where the story begins, in a way. It's interesting - the utopia aspect of it makes it seem like as horrible as things get, they're always in watercolor (as opposed to, say, the lurid oilpainting AoA was).


Notting Hill, with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Yay guilty-pleasure romantic comedies....though I suspect something could be done here with William Gibson's ideas of the critical-mass of celebrity, perhaps with his novel Idoru and the lunatic romance therein.