New Comic Day!
Jan. 30th, 2008 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6This week I got two books:
Avengers: The Initiative #9 (okay but felt a bit pointless at times)
Ultimate X-Men #90 (my Pick of the Week, the major developments here at least felt like they had something of a point)
Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
I also picked up, at the used bookstore, Woken Furies, by Richard Morgan (last book of the Kovacs series), and Otherland, Volume 2: River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams.
Work was okay, came fairly early actually and wasn't too heavy, although the usual annoyances due to the renovations.
Since I had comics I did the full walk around, which was even more painful this time around because of the horrid windchill. Now, granted, it wasn't as bad as it's been in some parts of the country (-50, man), but it was pretty annoying for a 2 hour walk,
and particularly since it seemed to follow me around and blow in my face no matter which way I was walking. For a good portion of it I had to don my vigilante identity, the Red Toque again, pull it down entirely over my face, hook it under my chin, and walk around like that. If my book was smaller I would have tried to read while walking while having a toque over my eyes, just to freak people out.
Also on the walk, I did have an interesting idea I'm going to have to play with somehow. Sort of a superhero/team concept, inspired a tiny bit by a novel I read as a young kid and now can't remember anything but the base premise of it. Unfortunately if I mention the premise I'll possibly have given away the idea, so I'm going to keep it to myself a bit until I decide what to do with it.
Things I saw on the walk home: A poster of an Ood, from Doctor Who, just lying there on the ground. I almost picked it up, but it was really frayed around the edges.
And, posted just for the sheer wtfishness of it, some Dream Foo! Okay, in this dream, Chucky from the Childs Play movies (which I've never actually seen), Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street (which I have seen), and John Edwards, the US politician who was until earlier today running for president, performed some kind of ceremony and the Venom Symbiote (from Spider-Man) bonded to all of them at once, making them some huge super-organism. They were trying to go about their business, but since they had to agree on whatever they did it was difficult. Can't remember much else about it, except that it stuck with me enough that the dream after that had (in addition to me finding a strange new route to work that was a remarkable shortcut), me telling the story of the dream to somebody else (someone at work).
And now, delicious cake.
Avengers: The Initiative #9 (okay but felt a bit pointless at times)
Ultimate X-Men #90 (my Pick of the Week, the major developments here at least felt like they had something of a point)
Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
I also picked up, at the used bookstore, Woken Furies, by Richard Morgan (last book of the Kovacs series), and Otherland, Volume 2: River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams.
Work was okay, came fairly early actually and wasn't too heavy, although the usual annoyances due to the renovations.
Since I had comics I did the full walk around, which was even more painful this time around because of the horrid windchill. Now, granted, it wasn't as bad as it's been in some parts of the country (-50, man), but it was pretty annoying for a 2 hour walk,
and particularly since it seemed to follow me around and blow in my face no matter which way I was walking. For a good portion of it I had to don my vigilante identity, the Red Toque again, pull it down entirely over my face, hook it under my chin, and walk around like that. If my book was smaller I would have tried to read while walking while having a toque over my eyes, just to freak people out.
Also on the walk, I did have an interesting idea I'm going to have to play with somehow. Sort of a superhero/team concept, inspired a tiny bit by a novel I read as a young kid and now can't remember anything but the base premise of it. Unfortunately if I mention the premise I'll possibly have given away the idea, so I'm going to keep it to myself a bit until I decide what to do with it.
Things I saw on the walk home: A poster of an Ood, from Doctor Who, just lying there on the ground. I almost picked it up, but it was really frayed around the edges.
And, posted just for the sheer wtfishness of it, some Dream Foo! Okay, in this dream, Chucky from the Childs Play movies (which I've never actually seen), Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street (which I have seen), and John Edwards, the US politician who was until earlier today running for president, performed some kind of ceremony and the Venom Symbiote (from Spider-Man) bonded to all of them at once, making them some huge super-organism. They were trying to go about their business, but since they had to agree on whatever they did it was difficult. Can't remember much else about it, except that it stuck with me enough that the dream after that had (in addition to me finding a strange new route to work that was a remarkable shortcut), me telling the story of the dream to somebody else (someone at work).
And now, delicious cake.
