Just got back from Thor: The Dark World. I was a bit hesitant about whether or not to see it. The reviews I read didn't like it much, but then, they didn't like the first movie either. (In fact, I think some Swedish reviewers see Marvel's Thor as a personal affront.) None of the ones I read could tell me whether or not the things I liked about the ( Read more... )

A little post of things I have read and seen lately:

Forever, by Maggie Stiefvater.
I started reading Forever only a couple of days before an employee at Swedish zoo Kolmården was killed by wolves, so that was a weird disconnect to have, reading the book ( Read more... )

My collected edition of Valhalla albums 1-3 has arrived, and I'm loving it immensely. If I ever get a scanner, I'm very tempted to make a scanlation of Thor's Bridal Journey, because it's just as awesome as I remember.

Meanwhile, I couldn't help uploading some popular culture nods that Madsen & co threw in:

( Muppet nod )

“Sir Anthony Hopkins has effectively been playing a comic book god for quite a long time, it just happens that in this movie he's doing what he's meant to do.”

Oh, Mark Kermode, I love you ( Read more... )

So, on Doctor Who. Um. I kind of feel like I should say something, since I'm making this post anyway, but this double-ep was sort of like "Frontios" to me, in that people were running around and talking, and I sort of lost interest and drifted off into doing other things (always a risk when watching things on the computer) and before I knew it plot ( Read more... )