No weekly Ashes to Ashes review, if you're wondering, because I want to wait until next week's episode before writing it, for plot-related reasons. Also, business strikes again, so should I owe you a reply, forgive the delay.

The multiverse5000 stories have started, and I was delighted to discover today's was encounter between Tosh (from Torchwood) and ( Read more... )

After making me wait in vain for two months, the comicstore where I get my English-language comics from told me they no longer import. This means having to wait for the trade volumes, I guess. Curses. So the question is, do I give in to the spoiler lure or don't I?

In other news, I've read The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn, which manages, among ( Read more... )

After spending most of the day on the road, I just received this from a friend. Films based on Alan Moore have been mostly unlucky (with the arguable exception of V for Vendetta), but this seems to indicate they don't try to "update" it, and it definitely looks right:

( Hmmmmmm )

The US: among other things, country where you can get American comics way cheaper than a month late and very expensive in Germany. Hence my aquisition of three trade volumes.

( Warren Ellis: Iron Man: Extremis )

Friends get friends to write them stuff like this: honorh wrote me a Dr. Who/Torchwood crossover which I adore, Smith and Harper.

In unrelated news, the trade collection The Road to Civil War arrived. I have read bits and pieces of the Marvelverse-spawning Civil War saga, individual issues and scans, but I thought I'd give the collected prelude a shot ( Read more... )

Following a recommendation from londonkds, I've read Mark Millar's Red Son, aka the Superman AU in which his pod crashes in the Soviet Union instead of Kansas. Which was interesting to read and shared several elements with JMS' more recent Supreme Power, notably of course the idea of the Superman character raised to love the state and being driven towards ( Read more... )

Today is my mother's birthday, which makes for brief time online, but I'm still in an eighteenth century mood. I'm also in a frustrated comics reader mood, as likeadeuce torments me with entries indicating that the new Astonishing X-Men is on sale and worth the wait. In the US. Which probably means I won't get it till the end of October. So, eighteenth ( Read more... )

Only very vague spoilers, basically just about the premise of the series; more detailed spoilers for Sandman

Recently, I read the last issue of Lucifer. Which makes it possible to look back on the series, I guess. It's the only one of the Sandman spin-offs going for a similar epic scope and succeeding, and managing the same kind of huge ensemble ( Read more... )

Visiting my local comic store, I wasn't surprised Astonishing X-Men #12 hadn't arrived yet (it usually takes a month), but I got my hands on Supreme Power #13 and #14, which means my waiting time till November when the trade collection is available will be shorter. To recapitulate: Supreme Power is, imo, the best thing JMS wrote (and still is ( Read more... )

The Very Quick Day Trip to London went well, save for the weather, which was abysmal, and I wouldn't have minded except that I had to spend considerable time outside. Otoh, I made a lot of British bookstores and DVD sellers richer as well. Among other things, I finally was able to aquire the second season of West Wing, which I have started to watch ( Read more... )