I just finished 1977, except for how I'm about to catch up on Star Wars. (I wasn't gonna bother, because, unrelated universe is unrelated, but then I keep seeing people talking about how Marvel would have folded that year except for Star Wars, and it makes me think they must be pretty good EVEN THOUGH the reality is almost certainly that the masses ( Read more... )

Note, this is not fit for publication; in fact, it will be closer to stream of consciousness than anything ( Read more... )

So, Dead Island is become cheap via the gold box daily deal. I'll get it either way, but I'm kind of hoping that, it being a primarily multiplayer experience, other folks will too. So, FYI, here's the link ( Read more... )

Insofar as whenever the last time I used that title, I didn't complete the game a bit. I still haven't, but I think I will before I stop playing for months, this time ( Read more... )

In the mid-70's, I read the Black Panther's first solo comic, where he was attached to the blaxpoitatively named Jungle Action. Despite that, it was a really good strip drawn beautifully and laid out very experimentally by Billy Graham (not, I assume, the same one) and written by I want to say Don Gregor? I really cannot oversell how cool the ( Read more... )

That is the year I have recently finished, you see, so I'm supposed to talk about it, right ( Read more... )

So,obviously this is not a review. It's not even per se a big enough post to warrant an LJ post[1], except possible comment spoilers makes me want to put it somewhere where the comments can be screened at will ( Read more... )

The number zero thing you should understand about this post is that 1.5 days is not enough time to make important decisions, plus also Dallas still counts as base regardless of anything else I might say ( Read more... )

1) I have had a lot of packages from Amazon lately, between videogame sale day, movie sale day, and some overdue camping gear. Still, I noticed that one of the boxes in my doorway yesterday seemed extra. When I got it inside, even though all the words were addressed to me on the forms and stickers and all, the contents were a couple of books that ( Read more... )

After an unreasonably long time, I have finished the first season of Doctor Who. The one from the 1960s, is what I mean. I gotta say, it's an interesting show, very, very different from the one we're watching now ( Read more... )