...since it took about an hour for it to sink in.

(At least half of you will not care about this since it involves comic books, but I feel compelled to write it.)

So, the antecedents: ( Antecedents behind cut to not abuse my flist. )

Because what's the point of having a scanner if you never use it for anything?

( Scans and commentary within. 7 pages. )

Because Cass is in it.

EDIT: She's only in the first seven pages. Just long enough to make the previews look like she'd be in more of the book. Typical.

Delurking (been very busy lately) with a grab bag of things I might talk more about if I had the time.

Books

-Books read recently: Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, the Farseer Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest) by Robin Hobb, Fate of the Jedi: Allies by Christina Golden, Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, World ( Read more... )

Batgirl #8, Page 18 (not counting advertising), Panel 2.

He's had that coming for years.

It will probably surprise no one to hear that I’ve been simultaneously anticipating and dreading this book for months. On the one hand, a new Batgirl series is an opportunity for some of my favorite fictional characters to come out of the storytelling limbo that they’d been left in. On the other hand, it was also an opportunity for my favorite ( Read more... )

I was informed by ( Read more... )

Very small week this week. Only one book I subscribe to came in, and that was Booster Gold.

So, this month in Booster Gold... I don't give a shit. No, really, I just don't, and I suspect you don't either. They used time travel to rehash storylines from 20 or 30 years ago, as they've been doing since this damn series started, and it's not ( Read more... )

The Narrator’s-Living-Room Inn was doing a brisk business this weekend. First some old friends let me know at the last minute that they’d be visiting Seattle and crashed on my floor from Friday night through Monday morning. Then my friend who comes down from Bellingham for the weekly gaming decided to crash on my couch rather than try to go back on ( Read more... )

Yesterday was, of course, Wednesday, the day on which new comic books arrive. Luckily I manged to grab mine before having to go into work early for some unexpected overtime. (Coworker's car attempted to share the same space-time coordinates as a garbage truck on her way home from work last night. No serious injuries, but she decided to take today ( Read more... )