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Further hints of your humble host's music taste, this is what I've been listening to quite a bit today, check this out...


Paul Carrack: "No Doubt About it"

I just got the album this is on and I like this song just because it has a great beat to it and lovely energy. Take a listen and let me know what you think. :) If you like it let me know and I'll make it an ongoing series.

To you all I hope you're all having a great thanksgiving. :)

Tomorrow is long day at work then after that I'm off saturday. I didn't do much thanksgiving because pretty much I went to eat at a restaurant then watched Up and that will be about it. I cried a few times during Up because it's extremely touching in parts. There's another reason why it makes me sad to a degree but that's a story for another day. The thing I think about now is making 2010 my year that things are going to change. I can't predict the future but I do know one thing 2010 will be a year of change for me. :)

2009 has been a little brutal on me in parts and in others quite nice all at the same time. I don't know where it's going to go or how it's going to end but all I know is 2010 is going to be better even if it kills me. I'll have to make a further post later on in this year closer to new years to detail what I want to do in 2010. Oh yes and also one other thing Christmas! The Deadshot fic...just kind of rung hollow when I was writing it in the early stages. So this is what I want from you all, since a few of you mentioned awhile back for Christmas presents of fan fiction, give me some prompts. Just give me the characters you'd like for me to play with and I'll be more than happy to do it for you. You can even come up with a loose plot whatever you all want. Go mildly nuts. XD

Oh yes and I've been reading Utopia the X-Men and Dark Avengers Crossover and I've liked it! I actually liked the storyline. I get a few more things now and I liked how it turned out. The Hardcover is freaking gorgeous anyway. I love Hardcovers as it is. I'll also have to go through previews and give you all a look at some stuff I'm looking over. The biggest ones being I really want the Absolute Planetary Hardcovers. Those must be mine. 75 dollars a pop though...yipes! That could end up being Amazon.com/gift certificates of fun for sure on that front.

This won't be a long post since I don't have a lot to report today. So I hope you all are well and bye for now!

Okay I'm a dork but yes I got to hit the store after a tiring day at work but I was so glad it was over and I bolted the feck out of dodge. So this is what I ended up picking up today. :D

Blackest Night #5
Green Lantern # 48
Dark Reign: The List Secret Warriors (My comic guy tracked one down for me. So awesome.)
Gotham City Sirens #5
Chew #6
Chew Trade Collection: Taster's Choice
Superman Secret Origin # 3
Creepy # 2
Secret Warriors # 10
Incredible Hercules # 138
Dark Avengers: Ares # 1 and 2
Sgt. Rock The Lost Battalion
Previews Catalog
Booster Gold Fan club T-Shirt! :D

Yes I will take a picture of myself in the Booster Gold Fan Club T-Shirt if enough people ask. Go get those comments ready!

Then I got Utopia: Dark Avengers and X-Men with my Stop Making Sense Blu-Ray at another Bookstore.

More fun info to come later and yes you all got to see a massive haul of my comic list. Would you want me to do a list say of what stuff I got when I get it or do you all like the monday info shock? I know next week it'll be a bit more difficult due to Comics coming in Wednesday. To be honest the whole month of December could be a strange one. I'll keep up as much as humanly possible though. :)

Ending post here for now since I just wanted to put my what I got list and all sorts of fun to come later. Bye for now!

Tomorrow I work which is a rarity since I'm normally off wednesdays. That's okay though my hours would've been slaughtered if it wasn't for the fact that I am working tomorrow. I work 7-2:30 then I'll be bolting off not too much longer after that to grab my comics and then from there home. I am going to be tired by the end of all this. This week has just been a whirlwind. Last year I felt like I got to do more stuff but this year has just been a year of pure and simple let's see how much crap I can have piled on me. Yep this will be my last holiday season in retail come hell or high water.

I went over to my friend Rian's house again today to grab my coat I had left over there last night and I got to see his collection. He's a big Batman fan actually from old school to new school Batman. He's the second big Batman fan I know for I have another friend Greg who loves Batman but he only knows the Modern age of Batman and not all the well..the crack. Lord only knows if I ever showed him the panel of "Papa Spank!" how his head would explode. I remember when Greg read Batman R.I.P and he was so lost and confused during the whole deal. That broke his brain enough and Grant only skimmed the surface of madness. I need to read R.I.P again to be honest with you all since I feel it might would hold up better in one giant re-read. I'm actually in the midst of re-reading Ultron Unlimited from the Busiek and Perez run on Avengers. Man that story was amazing. That latter age of Avengers was probably my favorite in just the pure balance of the team. It's taken me awhile to get used to the New Avengers style but I've finally accepted it. I actually plan on getting the Mighty Avengers vol. 1 giant trade along with possibly the New Avengers vol. 1 trade just for the fact that there's a few sequences I love in the vol. 1 trade. If any of you have read it, The "Ain't nothing gonna break my stride" elevator fight sequence. I loved that sequence! Of course I love the song too. One of my favorite motivation songs. haha :)

In my relaxing gaming news I downloaded the nice equivalent of gaming crack known as Peggle for my PS3 and hehe...I like. It's so calming. Shoot the ball at the pegs and then score points and wash rinse repeat for fun! *laughs*

Ending post here for now and I'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye for now!

A tired Wesley. hahaha XD I am ever so clever.

Actually I went over to my friend Rian's house for a bit of gaming fun and so on. This was a fun evening and I got to meet this elusive girl who I can't lie struck my eye quite a bit. I won't get into too many further details but she was pretty her facebook photos did not do her justice. Which I actually said which is bold for your humble host. Today was ridiculously busy at work and kind of insane so I needed to unwind badly and I mean badly.

Oh and I got a package from a very cool girl this afternoon, the ever so lovely spankingfemme and I'll give you personally more details but it really made me smile at the end of a very insane day. Thank you love. *hugs you tight* Love you so much. :)

Outside of everything not much to report I'm just posting this before I go to bed soon since I'm pretty tired I dropped my keys in my car before I left my friends house and that's when I knew, yep I'm a tired Wesley.

So to bed with me and Ares post will probably come along either wednesday night or thursday late night depending. You all usually get a monday big what will Wesley get this week but I'm tired. So...tomorrow. :) Bye for now!

Okay for one thing, how and I mean how is Superman Secret identity out of print? I already own it mind you but it's one of the best Superman stories and it's out of print. o.o...How the fuck, who the fuck, what the fuck? That makes no sense to me at all. Yes a rare Wesley swears post but ah heck all adults here and what not. Seriously though, how. in. the. world. does. this. go. out. of. print! It makes absolutely no sense to me. None at all.

Also the Ares trade is still out of print. Marvel should reprint this just because of the fact that Ares is getting more play in the Marvel universe as of late. I mean seriously when you're pushing your character and making him awesome and then you don't put the trade back in print that introduces him? That just boggles my mind quite a bit. I want to learn more about Ares dammit. Yes I do. So put it back in print! I'm not paying 34.95 at the low end and it hits to 177.95 for the high end range. No way and no how on that one. Shheessshhhh....

At least I know that Cable and Deadpool are being put back in print in Ultimate collections with the letter pages for goodness sakes! That's going to be very cool and is a must buy on my part. :D

I'm going to be glad when this week is over for things should settle down just a little after this crazy week. Literally Saturday is going to be one of those good luck getting me to go anywhere days. I work tomorrow, then tuesday morning but only for 6 hours then wednesday morning in which I'll be leaving work straight after to grab my comics then enjoy thanksgiving and then work from 12-10pm. This is going to be one long freaking week. *laughs* Can we say I'm going to be glad when this week is over again? Oh yes.

I'm going to do a full write up on secret warriors soon by the way since I just read it and it blew my mind for I really and I mean really liked it. I'll also work up a mini post on my recent geeking for Ares and now his son who's a freaking God himself. I'm going to be having a bit of fun with this. :D

Signing off for now though and I'll catch up to you all later. Bye for now!

To be honest with you 2009 has probably been the most mental year of my life. It's just been all over the map. Personal life has been up and down in so many places. Work life is driving me insane. The thing is and like you all know from earlier posts I've been contemplating bolting from my job but the one thing that holds me back is this,

Lack of jobs, hard to find jobs, and I do like money.

Yet of course I look at it from another matter is I would lack a lot of stress for the short term yet there would be a stress later of trying to find a job. There's so many perspectives I keep looking at as of late and I almost drive myself crazy doing it. Initial happiness being free of stress yet later on leading to how the heck am I going to find a new gig. I mean don't get me wrong I can probably find a quick job if needed. Well not quick but at least not as bad as what it could be. Just recently at my store we've had people putting in two weeks and one person getting canned. There's also a general air of we're all wanting to bolt in quick fashion. No one really knows what to do. Now I have thought about the school possibilities for sure but there's another matter of the idea of, "Oh hell but that would mean more time in the place.." Part of me would love to leave current job find new gig and then work to figuring something out in new job.

I just seem to have trouble figuring this out yet I keep going back to it all the time. It's getting frustrating and I don't want to burden you all with it because I know a lot of people get frustrated with me because I just don't do anything to help my own situation. I know that quitting my job would help me a lot in the long haul even with a job search in the future. I really will probably keep going back and forth on this until I make some sort of final decision. I keep being told to either wait or just bolt or well you can just name it. I really have absolutely no idea what to do.

In other news, another part of this is I've realized I've been absolutely not a happy camper as of late in general. I've been miserable half the time and the other half happy yet it's just for temporary bolts. I don't have the same rapid fire energy I used to have. It's like my firepower has been sucked dry and I'm just a shell of my former self in some ways. I'm getting bits of it back but it's becoming a rougher road than I ever expected. It's quite painful to be honest with you all.

I just want to be freaking happy and energetic again dang it. Not just in small doses but all of the time.

Going to end post here for now, 5 am work for the morning. Bleh. Laters all.

Lord I am so freaking tired. I mean really freaking tired. This has been one heck of a week that's for sure. I've been loving the hours but today I just felt a weensy but too loved today. That's all good though since I actually scored the rarity at my job which is overtime!

Tomorrow is going to be a fun day since it's pretty much just going to be one giant wandering day. Which will be nice since I haven't had one of those for awhile. I also have plans with my parents to meet a friend of ours for dinner that evening but then I learned i have to be up at 5 am for work the next day. Giyaaahhh...So I don't know how that's going to work out. Literally it kind of sucks since our friend Michelle has a new boyfriend that my parents have met yet I haven't. Of course the part is and this is one thing that's an odd quality is if I know I have something going on either the next day or hours before I just cannot relax. Seriously it's hard for me to completely relax. My adrenalin is just waiting for whatever it is that's supposed to happen. It takes a lot for me to just relax. Either I have to constantly distract myself with either books, gaming, internet and whatever else. Yes it's why I just have to either have something to do. If I'm at home I'm either doing one of the things mentioned at some point. If I'm out and say on a drive if I'm not the one driving and there's no one really talking I'm reading. If there's just me and another person then I'll just chat. I'm strange I know in some ways.

Sometimes I range into the eccentric in some of my ways. I guess I call it the situation of the fact that I think I come off as hard to know with people on occasion. It's generally because of the fact that I've been burned by people so often that I just don't know anything anymore. Right now I just haven't felt the most social too. I'm trying to balance it out by attempting small scale social situations since I know what happens when I completely isolate and it's not good. To a degree having even the smallest of conversations helps me a little. I always know I just sometimes think too much for my own good.

This is a bit of a random post since I really can't think of much to say tonight on this round just some random thoughts and things. I'll end post here for now before it comes a bit rambling. Laters all.

So I played a bit of catch up with Booster Gold and Adventure Comics since I realized that I hadn't read the third one I bought awhile back and hadn't been buying Booster Gold as of late. Well kids one I'm back in the Booster Gold fan club and danged if I didn't love how Adventure Comics turned out. The Legion story in Adventure was beautifully done. The Superboy/Superman-Prime story was a good story and I'm very curious to see how it turns out but the Legion story was amazing. I didn't mention also that I ordered a Booster Gold Fan Club shirt. Yes I will take a picture. Promise I will take a picture for I love my friends list very much.

Today at work though my lord what a day. Just a frustrating day. Okay could it be new years now please? Please please please let it be new years now so 2010 can begin. Thanks very much yours truly your humble comic addict. Thank you! :D

IBack to comics a second I plan on ordering the Absolute Justice trade soon. That comic just begged for an Absolute treatment just like I plan on ordering the Absolute Planetary volumes as well. I am also waiting for when Absolute All-Star Superman comes out at least one day I hope it will since that story literally begs and I mean begs to be done up in an absolute. One of these days I'll also have to grab the Absolute V for Vendetta. Yes this has become a mini shopping list. *laughs* This is what I hope will be many gift cards coming my way this Christmas. Literally it's all I really want is many gift cards. I don't care where people get them I want gift cards. Many many many gift cards for bookstores.

Tomorrow I have no idea what I'm up to but hopefully my Saturday will be relaxing for me. Here's hoping for such. Ending post here for now. Catch you all later.

I'm hooked into the danged Dark Reign saga now. Took me awhile but I kind of got hooked into it a bit more. I picked up a few issues of Dark Avengers and Secret Warriors today and got hooked into the whole thing. I'd never been much for Bendis or just the general concept but after my time of yesterday reading Dark Avengers vol. 1 being the first six issues I'm fascinated. Well done Marvel you've managed to win me over quite nicely. There's a few cool things in itself within this whole few issues I've read being Dark Avengers # 9, 10, and 11, and Secret Warriors # 7,8, and 9. Fun things that I've realized.

One: I'm thinking Ares and his son are two of the coolest characters right now and I must find the Ares mini series either in single issue form or the danged out of print trade paperback which I'm shocked is still out of print.

Two: I've officially starting to find the Norman Osborn aspect more fascinating and especially with the events of #11 I kind of dug how they operated with it.

Three: Victoria Hand is awesome and I will not deny her awesomeness and no one else should either. Damn she's just a cool character.

Four: Nick Fury is amazing and I must find Secret Warriors: The List so I can find out what happened in the next part since my comic guy was sold out. Grrarrgh.

Just amazes me that I've gotten into this whole saga and honest to goodness truth it's this little lot here on my humble little friends list that's done it. You all for the first time have me from a bit jaded comic fan to well just having a good bit of fun. I've always had fun with comics but there's been a bit of a tempered nature to it and just not letting myself go with the stories. Now it's fun just relaxing with my comics for I haven't been this energized in a few years. Probably my first time I've been this hyper about my comics in such a wonderful fashion since 2007 into mid 08. There's certain reasoning why I choose that time period and it's a weird personal reason involving it.

In a sense I feel like I'm getting more involved in the fan aspect mixed in with my critical side. The two sides finding a happy medium. There were some stuff I found quirky mostly in one the last page of #9 with that cliffhanger and then the next issue sort of going into something else and forgetting about that cliffhanger. I won't say it for spoiler reasons but if any of you have read the issue let me know if it got resolved somewhere. I'll research it too but I'm curious. Since that threw me off but then issues 10 and 11 were just awesome so it balanced it out to a point. Greg Horn did a great job with the painted pages too in issue #11.

Secret Warriors I got into because one I have the hardcover on order so I'm waiting for that to come in and in the meantime I wanted to get a bit of a fix now and damn I want my hardcover soon! This was fascinating and now I kind of want to find the New Avengers issues in which they first appeared now. I can't believe I'm getting into all this but it had to happen at some point eh? I like it. :D

Oh and hawkwitch : "Bullshawk needs a doctor, just smash a bit more and don't make it gentle for you have to hit the target." *grins*

Make note I've actually had an odd fondness for Bullseye since that issue of Deadpool he was in when Joe Kelly was writing it was the first issue I read. Sheep Gun! That was so cool. Sheep Gun = Awesome.

I've also got a new word for the vernacular: Depressotainment: Anything that is just so ridculously depressing and dark yet you still find it entertaining or don't find it entertaining depending on your take of it.

Ending post here for now, and thank you all for yesterday. *hugs*

Since next week is going to be a wacky one for if I can make it to the store or not since I'm working that day I'm going to enjoy this comic day to the fullest I can. :D So here's the list for the week.

Dr. Horrible One shot: It's Dr. Horrible and I am an absolute geek for Dr. Horrible. It will be mine.

Adventure Comics #4: Ahh yes the Superboy Prime issues. hahahaha Oh goodness I can only imagine what I'm in for with this round. Should be fun with Jerry Ordway doing the art on this. More Blackest Night mania for the kids.

Batman Streets of Gotham #6: The last issue was a good time so I'm hoping this keeps up the pace. I've had differing views on this series but I generally like it. I got the comment of there's not enough action on this series but for me it just works. I like the aspect that it explores different characters in the city. I can't wait for Dini to return though but this Chris Yost Fill-in has been a fun surprise.

Showcase Presents DC Comics Presents Volume 1: Have you all ever read this? This stuff is fun! I mean fun! Great done in one stories that are just mindblowingly insane and awesome. I have a few of these in my collection but not these so I can't wait to tackle this one.

Victorian Undead #1!: Yeeeeeeesssss!!!!!! I've been waiting for this series! I literally cannot wait to read it and see what it's like. I loved the art I saw of it and have been quite hoping it turns out well since I like the premise.

Cowboy Ninja Viking #2: It was nuts, it was fun, and it was right up my alley. So next issue shall be mine! :D

Invincible #68: Back to earth after the fun two parter setting up the Viltrumite war further. I can't wait to see how this all turns out in this issue.

Viking #4: This has been a cool series, nice painted artwork mixed in with a nice brutal feel. It's first series is ending soon but hopefully there will be more since it has been a cool ride thus far.

Thunderbolts #138: Jeff Parker's first issue and I'm waiting to see how it turns out. I read the preview for this one and I liked it so I'm curious as to how the whole book will fare.

Before I forget I did read the first volume of Dark Avengers and I did find myself getting into the book soooo...I'll probably end up with Utopia at some point soon along with the first volume of Dark Avengers. So this should be a fun week of comics a bit lighter but still fun. Till next time!

I got off work awhile ago only to end up going back to work in about a couple hours. Special event tonight and by golly every damned last one of us has to be there by golly. Believe you me if we are all asked to be there we are all damned well there. Yee haw.

I only got about three hours of sleep last night so I'm just barely awake as it is right now. It kind of sucks for at these events I always get the weirdest job and if it's something that's goofy I'll probably lose my sanity that much more. I don't even know how I'm awake as it is at the moment. Right now my odd project at the moment is going through the big brick of Stephen King known as, "The Stand" and I find myself digging it. This is the first time I've found myself reading Stephen King and I am surprised it's taken me this long to give his books a shot.

I should forewarn you all this is hitting my ridiculously busy time of year so to say the least if I seem a little scatterbrained and I mean way scatterbrained bear with me. I'll still keep up my postings but they'll just be quirky little update things and a more detailed post here and there as time allows. This week is pretty calm but next week is going to be insane. That week you'll all just have to bear with me. I'm going to be one tired person for the next month or so. Last year wasn't too bad but I have no idea what this year will bring.

I did read a book last night which I'll post a mini thing on now called, "Jormungand" and it's volume one of the manga series. Usually with most Viz Signature books I give a good look into since it's usually pretty solid stuff as it is. The artwork isn't bad on the series in itself but the storyline just left me kind of cold. One of those, "Ehn, it's okay..." sort of feelings you know? When you have your character who's your eyes on the series being a child soldier who works for the arms dealer with her group of mercenaries and the child hates weapons yet the aspect of the child soldier is a weird sort of focus point character. I've not seen that played much in comics and to be honest that intrigued me so I might pluck down a little more for the next volume, it'll be a we'll see on that front. To be honest I wasn't fully awake so I might have to re-read the 1st volume just to get a better feel for the series.

Outside of that nothing else to report for the moment. It'll be work event for the night and then probably bed not too much longer after that. Hope you all are doing well and I'll talk to you later. Bye for now.

Today I watched Mentalist and Supernatural in my TV adventures for this evening. It's funny about me and tv viewing is I was told that I watch a lot of it. To be honest with you all I really don't watch a ton of it just the stuff I do watch is my general viewing. I saw the Mentalist episode tonight and it was a different episode for me. I had fun watching it and just seeing the interplay between Bosco and Jane was an absolute blast of a thing. Not as much cool Cho moments for my liking though which made me kind of cranky. I did get a kick out of Van Pelt smacking Grisby upside the head for not wearing the vest. You know what would make an interesting piece of fan fic if you'd ever want to try it and I know it's been percolating in my head.

Psych and Mentalist Crossover.

Mostly in the aspect of Shawn Spencer and Patrick Jane working together for at least a start. Introduce more members to the cast as the fic went on. They'd drive absolutely everyone nuts for they're both hyper observant and in the aspect of Jane playing a psychic at one point and Shawn pretending to be one it would be absolutely mental of all the possibilities you could get out of this angle. They're both quirky yet Jane has a wicked dark side to him. Shawn is more happy go lucky. I think they'd drive everyone and themselves nuts. It would be comedy gold in parts and if played right some good dramatic moments. The only reason I've thought of it is because since both shows are in California it wouldn't be a stretch to team the two up on something. You could work with good bits of the cast to a degree if you think about it.

Gah!!!! I'm thinking of seriously doing this...should I stop myself or should I do it? I'm not sure if any of you have watched Psych but it is one of my favorite shows on USA. It would also give me an excuse to get the series sets at some point. Hmmm....decisions decisions.Of course Psych is more light hearted and Mentalist has a darker tone to it so I'm not sure how to play with the tonal aspects and the differences within.

Now with Supernatural, for all who watch this on my list, I've been digging this season and enjoying this weird meta arc they've been doing. The fan episode I did enjoy immensely. Solid episode for me from beginning to ending. This show used to be a decent show which was fun and now it's evolved into this great little series. I do believe it is the only show I watch on the CW now. Exactly the only show I watch on the CW until Smallville gets into the episodes I want to watch on that.

Oh! Within my Marvel Fanfare I've started reading the Black Knight story that's three parts and at the end of it there's another Dr. Strange story. It has some danged solid Gene Colan artwork in the midst of the story. It kind of has a sketchy look to it but at the same time it still works and it's freaking Gene Colan artwork so it is danged cool.

I feel a bit better than what I did yesterday I just had some stuff flowing through my mind and it's still there but it's easing a little it just felt good to get it out of my system a bit. Thank you all for caring. :)

Ending post here for now. Catch you all later.

Honest to goodness truth on that one, today has just been a nice, quiet, and decent day. It was probably the most peaceful day I've had at work for a couple weeks, and just a solid normal day. I really needed it to be honest with you all. Weird part is it still doesn't change what I constantly think about in my mind. See in my head I have little milestones that I feel I have to cross before I can move somewhat further. Usually when I have a peaceful day it eliminates the thought in my mind of whatever could be on my mind. The thing of it is all it really did was eased it but didn't eliminate it. The general persona of me is quirky, eccentric, and yet lovable looney tune. Okay sometimes lovable depending on the persons mileage. On here you all don't get the full eccentric form of your humble host since to be honest I'm a lot calmer outside of work. At work I'm all over the place in about five thousand forms.

It's true that in life people change and grow in different fashions. You never realize it until you just get a moment to stand still and ponder it all. A lot of stuff that's happened to me either good or bad is on me. Anything stupid I've done is on me. I guess you call it that I've been a sinner and a saint all in one like most of humanity. Of course I know a lot of my mistakes are minor in the core of a lot of people. Not living up to my own potential is something that bothers me on a daily basis. A lot of the time the reason why people come and go in my life is also because when I do have problems I don't figure out how to make it better for myself. At least in their views and I do admit I can do a whole lot better on a lot of matters. It's weird I'm not even going to friends only this post just because of the fact that I don't really care if it gets stumbled upon. We're humanity, we're flawed dammit and yet we try and make ourselves better in the long haul. In my own way I feel as if I take more damage than what I should because I feel I have to. For some odd reason I just have it in my head that I have to take all the pain on myself. It's why I like helping people because somehow I can make them feel better but sometimes I know they just want someone to talk to and they don't want random advice. It's why I had to teach myself you can't save them all. Of course if I could save them all would I do it? Yeah I would in a heartbeat. It's why I have such an appreciation for Superman.

Of course I also have strong appreciation for the heroes that go out there with no or little powers do their thing as well. Wrap their knuckles in tape and just prep up for battle. By nature the reason why I don't quit and just keep fighting is by my nature I have ridiculous amounts of strength that not even I fully realize. I've been in situations in which I've been tore into with names, emotional abuse, and endless stupidity over the years. The thing of it is there's really not much that can effect me. That's why I have the thick skin I do about certain matters. I can be a bit of a tough bastard when I want to be. I don't know what has prompted this bit of soul searching on this round. Thank you for reading this if you've managed to make it this far. I'll end it here for now. Take care you all and believe me when I say, you all mean the world to me. Bye for now.

I just read the first issue of S.W.O.R.D and it's probably one of my favorite first issue debuts of this year. It had a bit of everything that you could look for in a comic. Likable characters, action, good storytelling, solid artwork, excellent writing overall, and yes the Beast looks kind of odd but I can overlook it for this comic is awesome. It has Lockheed for goodness sakes, Lockheed is officially one of my favorite characters. Gillen really does get Lockheed and I like that. The back up story with Lockheed is impressive in itself. You don't really have to know anything about Astonishing X-Men or where Agent Brand comes from to get into this comic. It has a great atmosphere to it. It also has Henry "Yes I am a bastard" Gyrich along for the ride. I would definitely recommend you all to pick this up either with your comic stacks or just whenever you can make it to a store. Support this comic! I'm starting the pimping brigade on this now for every time it seems I like a comic somehow it gets cancelled, if it's not something that's been around forever it gets cancelled.

Captain Britain and the MI:13 - Cancelled

Vext - Cancelled

Major Bummer - Cancelled

The Order - Cancelled

The list just goes on and on. I see a lot of cool potential for this comic and this has just about everything I could look for in a comic. It's fun as all hell for God's sake! I felt myself having so much fun reading it. Lord I de-aged for a minute from my 28 year old self and went back to when I first started reading comics again getting excited. Yes kids I'm pimping out a comic to an extreme degree. So go get it. You'll thank me later. For if you like fun, kittens, puppies, and all cute animals you will like this comic. Including cute cranky dragons. It takes a lot to get me uber sparked and this has done the trick.

This is my go get this comic now alert. Yes three posts from me in one day. I'm hyper today what can I say? hehe

Longer entry to follow but I just got back awhile ago from the comic store and got three lantern rings, Orange, Yellow, and Indigo. I now represent Greed, Fear, and Compassion. Just wait till I get the black lantern ring. XD

Oh and I found a beautiful freaking Doctor Strange story in the store this week, Marvel Fanfare #41 with Walt Simonson writing and Dave Gibbons on artwork. Oh it is a beautiful book. I'll give a full workup on it later on here. I'm also going to try my hand at reading Stephen King for the first time since I found a giant hardcover version of the Stand at Half Price Books. I now have my brick of King, wish me luck! hehe

Longer post to come either later today or tomorrow. Catch you all later!

Yes I have a strong indie kid background. it comes about from my days in art school and also the people I was around for a period of time that exposed me to different comics I usually wouldn't have read. I also was heavy into all sorts of different comics from all over the map. Major league into indie comics and the general form. A lot of major comic artists and writers have actually come about through the recent years through different indie companies. The interesting one for me was Matt Fraction. Yes a bit of a figure of contention in the Iron Man fandom but I knew him before he hit the Marvel scene. I actually read his one of his earlier books Last of the Independents and going from there Mantooth and then he was doing Casanova for awhile in the midst of his early Marvel work. Kieron Gillen started out with Phonogram and now he's been going into some interesting Marvel work in his own right. What's interesting is somehow my Matt Fraction reading is leading to me picking up S.W.O.R.D which has the artist on Fraction's Five Fists of Science Steven Sanders and the writer of Phonogram Kieron Gillen working on it. This looks like a lot of fun and when I realized the history of this it fascinated the heck out of me.

What's strange for me about the indie scene is the whole subject matter can go all over the place. Blankets and Box Office Poison are two of my favorites actually. Persepolis is also a favorite of mine too and I also own the Blu-Ray of the movie. A lot of these stories are tales that could be told as novels but what's different is how they manage to make their ideas work in a graphic novel format. The best way to describe certain books is you'd possibly go into the aspect of comics lit for some of these. Since these books are books that have literature aspects to them yet still manage to lend themselves to the comics form. Marjane Satrapi is fascinating as hell to listen to when you hear her stories about Iran and the history behind her book and her book in itself is a hell of a read. The art is okay but the story is what makes it on this one. Though her sequences at certain points of the book are phenomenal. Her talks with God in the book are interesting to behold in certain points which lends it to the medium.

Blankets is one of the books that made me heavier into the indie side for awhile via the fact that it just blew my mind. It had a very human story to it and Craig Thompson is an amazing artist in his own right. I've also read his Goodbye Chunky Rice which was also quite a cool story as well. I'll give you more in depth versions of this as time goes on with this but I'm just showing you all a bit of my own history. Box Office Poison was actually originally a serialized book through Antartic Press and ended up getting reprinted in full by  Top Shelf and that's how I discovered it. It was one of those books that fascinated me and I spent quite a few late nights reading that one. 608 pages you know and it hooked me. I guess it's why I have the odd ball nature of just reading anything comics I can get my hands on. I'm a firm believer in that the medium can do anything if the right mind can work with it. There are some indie books that don't appeal to me since the art style just is..off to me on some series. Just wait till the day you get me into my views on manga, boy that will be a fun one for you all to witness.

I don't read near as much indie as I used to since it seems that nothing is sparking out at me though I do absolutely love Scott Pilgrim. I do so love that book and that it'll be a movie next year is exciting to me. I have no idea how it'll turn out but I'm hoping it'll be awesome. Oni Press is one I keep tabs on since it has another one of my perennial favorite books Blue Monday which did start a new series of it but it kind of disappeared after the first issue of the new series Thieves like Us. Disappointed me on that one since it was pretty cool. The volumes that are out are slick, it also inspired a good part of my 80's music geekdom. It's how I started listening to Adam Ant, Haircut 100, and bits of things I'd not ever have heard of if it wasn't for that book. That also got me into The Kinks, The Jam and on from there making into a bit of my Mod side as well. 

I always got a bit annoyed when people liked to generalize me into one category but to be honest I just love all things comic. I've always felt in my core that comics are limitless. That was one of my original mission statements was to get into the fact that comics are limitless. I do enjoy the heck out of superhero comics too as you all well know. I just kind of wanted you all to know a little bit of a new side of me that you might not hear from often but know that it's out there.

Okay I'm going to end this post here, hope you all are well and I'll talk to you later. Bye for now!

We're getting Amanda Waller on Smallville. Yes. Pam Grier is going to be playing Amanda Waller in Smallville. I was watching Attack of the Show and suddenly that little blurb popped up. Amanda Waller is going to be on Smallville. Wonder Twins, JSA, and now Amanda Waller. Holy fizzbuckets. o.o Amanda Waller. Smallville. I so cannot believe I'm going to end up watching Smallville.

That's all I just wanted to post that since it took me completely off guard.

There will be a large post in the future involving  my own examination into indie comics since that could be a detailed one. For now I'm going to tell you all what I plan to get on Wednesday! So let's get this party started, jump up, jump up, and get down! God I'm a dork...>.>...

Batman and Robin # 6: Hoo..cannot wait! This should hopefully be fun I do believe it's the conclusion to the Red Hood storyline. I think so.

Batman and Doc Savage Special #1: This is the beginning of the First Wave series that will be coming up soon with the upcoming Doc Savage series. This was the one you all saw the preview pages for with the Phil Noto artwork. It was a source of contention in my comic store of the artwork itself for this special but I liked the artwork so this should be quite awesome. Azzarello writing pulp characters is going to be a blast.

Booster Gold #26: It's Blue Beetle in Booster Gold and this should be one hell of a confrontation to say the least. DId I mention Ted Kord Blue Beetle in Booster Gold? Oh yes this issue has been one I've been curious about for quite a bit. I'm curious to see how Dan Jurgens is going to handle this.

Green Lantern Corps #42: The Blackest Night adventure continues and I'm in for the ride.

R.E.B.E.L.S #10: Oh this is going to be awesome! I can't wait to see this one. For ever since I heard Vril Dox is going to get a yellow ring I went, "Okay just how are they going to pull this off?" I don't know how but this should be amazing.

Walking Dead #67: It's Walking Dead. Enough Said. Freaking awesome. Next.

Amazing Spider-Man #611: It's Joe Kelly writing Deadpool. I might have to just because of that. That's it.

Dark X-Men #1: Yeah you're all probably going, "Wha?" There's a reason, one it's Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk working on the book and it has a great vibe to it from what I read of the preview pages. It just looks nicely into the fun and demented side. We'll see on this one.

Deadpool #17: I've been liking this X-Men storyline and I read the preview and it was very enjoyable. Probably one of the better sequences I've seen Daniel Way write. I'm surprised at how well he writes Deadpool.

S.W.O.R.D #1: This one I've been looking forward to for a bit ever since I started reading into it and then I saw the preview. Once all that came together it just clicked into I'm excited about the comic. It also has  bastard Gyrich in the book which is already enjoyable. If you've never read much of bastard Gyrich it's a riot.

Chronicles of Wormwood: Last Battle #2: This is so wrong on so many levels and I enjoy it immensely.

Supergod #1: This sounds awesome and I hope it turns out well we'll see the results of this Wednesday. It's Warren Ellis. He's been sketchy from time to time at Avatar.

That's the haul for this week. :)