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[meganbmoore]

 rightstuf.com's current sale is 33% of CMX comics, 40% off if you're in their club thingie.  I highly approve of this, as I've been waiting for that and a Go!Comi sale (which I don't think they'll ever have...another few weeks and i'll have to concede defeat and pay a bit more for a few things at Amazon...)

Has anyone read The Empty Empire, From Eroica With Love (I'm positive someone recced it to me...smillaraaq?) Key to the Kingdom, or Musashi Number Nine?

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[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Klaus is basically a deeply cranky, antisocial misanthrope, plain and simply. He reacts with disgust and horror to Eroica's constant "perverted" come-ons, but seems just about as upset when perfectly attractive women hit on him. He also hates his superior officers (stupid, perverted, incompetent, and for reasons of rank he can't threaten them with shooting or exile way he wants to), most of his underlings (incompetent, he constantly threatens to exile them to Alaska), other NATO agents from other countries (stupid, incompetent, and lacking in discipline), his usual KGB foils, flashy non-German sports cars, art, flamboyant clothing...well, really, when you come down to it, he hates just about everything and everyone but his father, one of the nuns at his old boarding school, bad Nescafe instant coffee, cigarettes (as long as they're his own manly brand, not the poofy things Eroica smokes), tanks, sensible German cars like his Benz, and fried potatoes. Oh, and when it really comes down to it, it seems like he doesn't really truly hate some of his more competent agents (Z/Tzet and the cross-dressing G in particular), and he even seems to develop a sort of grudging respect for Eroica himself after a while (he may be a flashy, gaudy pervert, but he's neither stupid nor incompetent). But of course, being the gruff manly-man sort that he is, he's never in a million years going to ADMIT to anything of the sort.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Oh, and how could I forget -- high on the very short list of Things Klaus Doesn't Hate is his gun. As long as he has his bad coffee, his cigs, and his Magnum, the boy is...if not precisely happy, well, at least he seems to be *content* in his crankiness.

Basically, imagine if Sanzo were a brunet German NATO officer, only without all the angst, and that's Klaus in a nutshell.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Sanzo is who I've been thinking about during the Klaus discussion, and since I like Sanzo just fine...

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

*nods* When I first started getting into Saiyuki, that was pretty much the big parallel that struck me -- "my god, he's like a blond Klaus with an even bigger attitude problem!" If I were the sort who could write crossover crackfic, I'd be doing something RIGHT NOW where they're commiserating over coffee and chain-smoking on how much it sucks being the only competent one trying to save the world when your bosses are perverts and your underlings are pervs and idiots. And if you enjoy the snarky Sanzo/Gojyo dynamic, you might enjoy the Klaus/Dorian exchanges. The big difference being it's arguable whether Gojyo ever *means* any of his flirty teasing around the monk, or is just being a gadfly; Dorian definitely really means it, although he also seems like he's not above camping it up even more outrageously than usual just for the fun of watching the Major get more and more flustered. But in both cases, for all that they're such wildly incompatible personalities, there does seem to be a sort of grudging respect and friendship that's eventually built up under the snark -- not that it's ever going to be spoken out loud, of course.