In which there are preparations for the sun standing still
- Happy pre-solstice night!
- My soundtrack for the last astronomical day of 2016(-ish): Money don't matter 2 night, by Prince, 1991: "That's when you find out that you're better off / Makin' sure your soul's alright / 'Cause money didn't matter yesterday, / It sure don't matter to night."
- So, what are you doing, thinking, wondering about, reading, watching, making, or writing, that you don't usually post about?
- Reading, books 2016, 216
206. Bandette, vol.3, House of the Green Mask, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, 2016, another fun story enhanced by art that not only tells the story but is also full of delightful additional detail. I especially loled at the man named Shropshire Warrington-Yorks. (5/5)
• Bandette on her wannabe assassin: "[...] the deadly woman known as Madame Revolver, could shoot a fly at one hundred paces... should she for some reason be angry with this hypothetical fly."
207. Faith, vol.2, California Scheming, by Jody Houser and Pere Perez, 2016, the ongoing comic featuring plus-sized Los Angeles superheroine Faith has kept the chipper but otherwise average fangirl personality from the original miniseries and added some genre-style snappy one-liners in a very effective minor tweak to the writing that works extremely well to balance the emotional feel by preventing the fight scenes from coming across as too light-hearted, but without adding any faux-edgy bull which Faith doesn't need to go anywhere near due to already skillfully reshaping multiple superheroine genre conventions (and I'm using the words "reshaping" and "conventions" deliberately there, lol). If you like the superhero genre and fangirls then you'll probably like this. (5/5)
• Baddies gotta monologue, lol: "I thought I could combine my desire to be a supervillain with my love of community theater."
• One-liner monologue retorts for social justice...
Wannabe supervillain: "Let me guess: you're going to say I'm insane."
Faith/Zephyr: "No. I was going to say you're a smeghead."
208. Electric Shadow, by Heidi Williamson, 2011, poetry which didn't do much for me. (2/5)
209. Giant Days, vol.3, by John Allison and Max Sarin, 2016, graphic novel collecting comics in an ongoing series. Still brilliant, obv. (5/5)
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- My soundtrack for the last astronomical day of 2016(-ish): Money don't matter 2 night, by Prince, 1991: "That's when you find out that you're better off / Makin' sure your soul's alright / 'Cause money didn't matter yesterday, / It sure don't matter to night."
- So, what are you doing, thinking, wondering about, reading, watching, making, or writing, that you don't usually post about?
- Reading, books 2016, 216
206. Bandette, vol.3, House of the Green Mask, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, 2016, another fun story enhanced by art that not only tells the story but is also full of delightful additional detail. I especially loled at the man named Shropshire Warrington-Yorks. (5/5)
• Bandette on her wannabe assassin: "[...] the deadly woman known as Madame Revolver, could shoot a fly at one hundred paces... should she for some reason be angry with this hypothetical fly."
207. Faith, vol.2, California Scheming, by Jody Houser and Pere Perez, 2016, the ongoing comic featuring plus-sized Los Angeles superheroine Faith has kept the chipper but otherwise average fangirl personality from the original miniseries and added some genre-style snappy one-liners in a very effective minor tweak to the writing that works extremely well to balance the emotional feel by preventing the fight scenes from coming across as too light-hearted, but without adding any faux-edgy bull which Faith doesn't need to go anywhere near due to already skillfully reshaping multiple superheroine genre conventions (and I'm using the words "reshaping" and "conventions" deliberately there, lol). If you like the superhero genre and fangirls then you'll probably like this. (5/5)
• Baddies gotta monologue, lol: "I thought I could combine my desire to be a supervillain with my love of community theater."
• One-liner monologue retorts for social justice...
Wannabe supervillain: "Let me guess: you're going to say I'm insane."
Faith/Zephyr: "No. I was going to say you're a smeghead."
208. Electric Shadow, by Heidi Williamson, 2011, poetry which didn't do much for me. (2/5)
209. Giant Days, vol.3, by John Allison and Max Sarin, 2016, graphic novel collecting comics in an ongoing series. Still brilliant, obv. (5/5)
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