New Comic Day + Fun With Epilepsy!

This week I got:

Astonishing X-Men #9 (feels like a bit of a misstep for Whedon)
Batgirl #62 (fairly enjoyable for one of these kinds of stories)
DC Countdown to Infinite Crisis (80 page story, character based, for $1 - my Pick of the Week)
Otherworld #1 (okay start, have to see where it goes)
Outsiders #22 (not bad for a mostly fight book)
Secret War Book Four (very pretty but the delays have ruined the flow of the story)
Ultimate Secret #1 (a better start than nightmare, promising)
X-Men: Phoenix Endsong #4 (a bit more disjointed than other parts of the mini, but as usual, some really nice moments)

Also picked up but haven't read Volume 1 of Marvel's Alias series in TPB.

Full reviews of the stuff I read at http://www.unreachablestar.net

Also had a gyro for lunch, and mmmmm, tacos for dinner.

Fun with Epilepsy!

So, today on the subway, I was reading one of their ads, this one about
epilepsy. The ad had a bunch of kids on it dressed up in their future
careers, along with a little text blurb about what they wanted to be and why. Most of them were fairly normal, a kid wanted to be a dentist "because smiles are important". But there this one kid in a suit... the information for him said he wanted to be a Stock Broker. "Because fast cars are cool." ... Somehow, I suspect he's either jumping ahead a few beats (Stock Brokers = lots of money = fast cars!), or (more likely), I think the kid meant he wanted to be a Stock Car Racer or something and thought Stock Broker was the same thing, and nobody really noticed or had the heart to tell him. I wonder what the kid must have been thinking - why am I in a suit, I was supposed to be a Stock Broker!

Also, I wanted to remember the ad because I wanted to talk about it here, but also because I wanted to look up stuff about Epilepsy. - Something on the ad made me wonder if perhaps I had a very minute form of it, since I tend to go into weird fugues at times. That's neither here nor there though, because what I'm really getting at is that I used one of the tricks I used when I want to remember something - I try to make anagrams based on it. So, I looked at the word Epilepsy, and tried to come up with a name out of it. What I got out of it:

Pip Seely, Ace Detective. Why Ace Detective? I dunno. It all sort of flowed from the name (and because Seely sounds like Seelie) -

Pip Seely, Ace Detective

Growing up an orphan on the streets of New York was tough. Becoming a
private detective in the city wasn't any easier... and doing it all while
saddled with the name 'Pip' forced him to become tough. But Pip Seely
has another ace up his sleeve, one that even he doesn't know about - he's
got faerie-blood running through his veins, which gives him the second sight and other abilities... and he'll have to use every one of them on his next case. Part hard-boiled detective story, part fantasy romance, Pip Seely: Ace Detective is the first book in a new trilogy...

Okay, I'm probably not going to go anywhere with it - if I was, I wouldn't have put it in my LJ where anyone could take it... I've got other ideas I'm more interested in exploring. Still, it was a fun idea to toss around for a few minutes.

Other Junk

At work today the pixie-face girl who usually works Sunday morning and is the current subject of my light work crush (so as to provide me needed motivation to crawl out of bed that morning) was there, but not working, waiting for a relative who was. She was therefore not in a work uniform, and was in fact wearing a skirt, and so looked good. So some nice visual enjoyment that day, even if nothing would come of it.

Also, yay! Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin from Firefly are scheduled to go to Toronto's SFX convention. I went to the one last year and was wavering on going this year, but for Firefly people? Yeah, I'm going to that one. And this time I'll have my Blue Sun shirt! :)