A conversation that Jess claims she had with me while I was asleep.
Sometime in 2000 or 2001 :

Jess : Who loves you?
sleeping Casey : You guys.
Jess : Who??
Casey : (indignant) You guys!
Jess : You guys? Me and who else?
Casey : (scoffs loudly, as if it's obvious) You and X-Factor!

I recently went through all of my comics and reboxed and sorted them. Well, I sorted *some* of them. That quickly got tiring. Anyway, after picking through all of my old comics and seeing lots of my favorite childhood characters in X-Men 3, I wished that I hadn't foolishly sold off some good books when I was in Junior High. I'm missing lots of great 80's issues Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor and Excalibur. I'm trying to resist the urge to go out and blow a whole bunch of money on back issues when I can pick up the "Essential" trade paperbacks for 11 bucks a pop.

Quick update, sort of related: neat page over at Wikipedia that shows the whole X3 cast with links to articles. I had no idea that the tattooed girl was supposed to be Callisto.