so the fact is, i have 2 readers (well, 2 who get it fed via livejournal... i suppose it's possible people have other ways of reading syndicated feeds).

this really means nothing.

at least not right now.

more later....

ahh. the joys of being a geek

so comic books comic books comic books.

not this time (that post comes later with a double decker, and much more stream of consciousness comic book day X 2 post). this is for other nerdy things... i mean, i'm not just a comic book geek.

for those of you not in the know, i'm a member of the charm city craft mafia.

doing what, you ask? well, i am a part of the sleepy records/little mouse vintage team. as well, i have my own - under the little mouse vintage heading - thing called...wait for it.... "my inner geekdom." and yes, i;'ve made stuff (no pictures yet, and they're not up on the lmv site yet but soon kids, soon...). mostly i make... well... random stuff. i started out with some "girly" stuff - rainy day pins, tortoise and hare clips (get it? it's a play on words! oh so clever...), turtle rings... a necklace (i'm actually making a few more... i dunno... there's something kinda relaxing and mentally... whatever about it that i like. mostly my inspiration is annie though...

(btw. sleepy records will be DJ'inf the CCCM's "pile of craft" show on june 23rd.

but my next project is something a little more... me. i call them brain the bear and heart the bear (pictures.... eventually). intially, they are going to be polymer clay - my medium of choice - and... yeah. they may have a neighbor named bob the zombie. and, i know, it sounds kinda care bearish...

think, instead, spy vs spy, but with bears (though i don't plan as of yet to make them different colors... though that's an idea...). there will be a "rock em sock em robots" style set, as well as various individual bears. ultimately, i'd like to cast them in resin, handpaint them, and have some sort of mass produced version... but that's ages away... and face it, "one of a kind" is cooler.

and now, randomly, a recent procurement of mine from an antique store:
a pac man bank (it looks cooler with the mouth open). but, is it me, or does pac man look a bit... stoned? ok, more than a bit. those sleepy eyes, that lackadazical grin... what exactly ARE power pellets?

so what does the inner geek do now...

signs off.

the nerd is back

lots of stuff to talk about, comics and the like... but nothing right now... well... not much....



superman and santa claus totally humiliated toyman in a not terribly violent manner. pre-crisis sillyiness...

they really don't make comics like this anymore.

comic book day, comic book day! 5/9

ah. so countdown begins. spidey's pissed. thunderbolts has some fighty filler... the recaps, at least of my limited purchases (yes, limited.... i'm certainly not into it as i otherwise might be...)

marvel zomibies: dead days one shot

ok, so the marvel zombies universe needed an... origin story? no. i'm not sure where this fits. it opens with what almost seems to be a continuation of what happened in the army of darkness crossover, with spidey heading home to check on mj and aunt may, only to realize he's been infected and, well, eating them. however, it then seems to lead into the ultimate fantastic 4 which then lead into the actual marvel zombies miniseries in the first place... so... kind of circular? and a lot more characters zombified than i actually remember...

high points:
-gatefold cover "parodying" (i guess being the best word) the big x-men 1 cover from the early 90's x-men series.
-actual... depth to the zombie heroes, at least at first. colonel america actually wanting to cure/stop the problem.
-reed richards of the fantastic 4 being an outright cunt. as in civil war and even as in the fantastic four 1602 miniseries... just a cunt. infecting his wife and friends, so they can become zombies and then so they can turn him, because he wants to "known what it feels like"? what. a cunt.

countdown #51 (counting backwards from 52... umm... clever...)

well, it's a start. a confusing one. where in the newly reformed multiverse are we? jason todd is the red hood, not nightwing... and... yeah.

best part, so far, the mary marvel part. finally out of her coma... well... okay, the best part is when she says SHAZAM! and it starts to rain... (i really like the teaser ad, with what has to be eclipso wearing a "what would mary marvel" do button... intriguing...). but really, to start things off with joker's daughter... and is this the "new earth" joker's daughter or another? the monitor who kills her seems to indicate that it is, but... i don't know. and apparently, darkseid plays "heroclix" (silly role playing-ish superhero game with little figurines and whatever... i've never played it so i'm not sure, but even i got that in my head after seeing the first page of the issue...)

Gen 13 #8 (why, oh why, do i keep buying this book...)

so i like gen 13. i do. and to have "the authority" show up mid issue just... well... neat (i, granted, never was a big "authority" fan. but midnighter's kind of cool... thing that struck me was the end... right before leaving them gen13 kids alone (after what was sort of a fight, but mostly just some silly teen resistance), midnighter tells them that they're not supposed to even exist, and not to destroy the multiverse, sounding suspiciously like what the monitor tells duela dent right before killing her at the end of countdown 51.... so... umm... ok, both under the "DC comics" umbrella (though the wildstorm universe is sort of separate though i guess sort of part of the multiverse.... ) ... is this a tie in? hmmm... or not. maybe they're just going to tie in this version of gen 13 with all the previous ones. or maybe wildstorm has it's own multiverse?

bah...

thunderbolts #114

so, i never liked thunderbolts pre-civil war. not really. but now that they actually have dangerous criminals - well, venom and bullseye, as well as the character formerly known as speedball (who has gone from happy go lucky kinetic powered wuss to self loathing sort of badass....) it's more interesting. but something about this seemed to be just... filler to me.

amazing spiderman #540

aunt may's probably gonna die. spidey's found the shooter. the shooter dies. spidey hunts who payrolled him. finds out it's kingpin, doing his work from prison (which the readers knew), which the whole issue leads up to... so... hmm... as far as episodic story telling, this works great. and it's nice seeing spiderman act solely on emotion and anger - the black suit really works for this as well... yeah...

new avengers #30

still hiding from the mighty avengers. hawkeye shows up. and... big reveal... he's the new ronin. which. well. i called when it first was announced there was a "new" ronin who was going to be revealed as a former major player in the marvel universe, etc. etc. etc. yep. i called it. not daredevil. not steve rogers (cos, well, dead). hawkeye. not dead. not pissed at scarlet witch anymore. now. ronin.

then it's back to japan to rescue the old ronin, who at the end seems to be under the control of elektra (who really seemed at first to be thrown in so we would think daredevil would be the new ronin, and still seems superfluous, though she does lead the Hand now...), though if the cover of #31 is any indication, um, not for long...

but yeah. hawkeye. called it.

new x-men #38

demons. check. mutants. check. belasco's back. some snarky comments about whether the x-men will come save them. and. well. demons. magik makes a brief appearance as darkchild... and... yeah. good issue. yes. but again, a whole lot of stuff prolonging the inevitable... or is it inevitable? apparently, with all the other shit coming into the x-men universe soon, do they need another returning from the dead character?

sigh...
nerd, out.

comic book day, one day later

so i didn't have time for this yesterday, so here goes:

comic book day! woo! not "free comic book day." just... well... wednesday,.,,

so really, in some ways, it was a miraculous one, for not one... not two... but THREE Joss Whedon books not only out on the same day, but on time! talk about miracles....

so we'll start with them....

Astonishing X-Men 21

now, i'll grant that this current arc of "Astonishing" hasn't really been my favorite, largely because... i don't know... maybe it just hasn't felt like Joss. Now, granted, the man's been busy with other things (and not with Wonder Woman... hmm... maybe that's what the books were all on time this month! though also, i think making Astonishing bi-monthly has also helped...). plot wise, we're further getting confused as to whether these aliens want to kill or honor Colossus, who, as it turns out, they are in part at least responsible for resurrecting, as they have some sort of prophecy involving him. anyway... but then, finally, the issue has it's true moments of zen. kitty pride appearing naked before collossus, after finding out that he's likely some sort of messiah; emma frost and cyclops arguing, before being attacked, with cyclops saying he loves her, and emma offering to sacrifce herself for him (a very Buffy moment, i dare say... though my guess is, our empathic friend who can also turn herself into diamond either has a plan, or some sort of backup in the form of wolverine and the new kid on the team will appear...).

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 8 #3

ETHAN RAYNE!
Willow in full on witch battling action!
Zombie fight!
very odd aside between giles and a demon...
very scary image in buffy's dream of her with spike and angel all chained together....
but, then, finally... the big reveal....

see, at the end of the first issue, when amy was revealed, there was an allusion to another "person" found in the rubble of sunnydale, with a lot of question - and no clues - who it could have been... well, finally, at the end of issue 3, we get to see who, along with Amy, the government (in a sort of initiative throwback, though not really the initiative as much) has hired to bring down the slayer and her army (cos, if you all remember how the show ended... well... there's a whole lotta slayers out there....). and it is (icky drum roll please, cos, well, eeew...)
Warren! all skinless and everything! and ready for revenge (though, ok, telling Willow she "really gets under [his] skin." is sort of lame....

and finally, for the Joss Whedon portion of this post....
Runaways #26

For one, you can tell Joss loves writing Molly. The enthusiasim and exuberance he puts in her - though always a part of her character, is just all kinds of extra... fun. and she sucker punches the Punisher, right in the gut! which, frankly, is more fun than when captain america decked him back during Civil War (honestly, he thinks he can take the mantle of Captain America, but he can't even avoid getting the wind knocked out of him by a - granted a mutant one - little girl? i mean, getting clocked by Steve Rogers... makes some sense, and one even wonders if the Punisher had put up a fight in that one... But little molly hayes? awesome!)

best script moment:
runaways walk into Kingpin's office, to deliver what they "stole" for him (which likely was a product of their late evil parents)...

Nico:He said be at his office by first light. We got just enough time to hop out of state till we figure out what we're gonna... ninja. (lights come on, room full of ninjas)
Chase: That's a lot of ninjas.
Nico: It's a bunch.
Chase: More than the usual amount of ninjas.

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and now, the rest:

The Avengers: the initiative #2

bah... i'll be honest and say i'm not sure why i'm still going with this - or with the Omega Flight series, though at least that's limited... do we really need a new new warriors? granted, it's a pretty cool seeming team, for the new warriors (and we'll have to see how they deal with the stigma of being the new version of the team that destroyed an entire city, and led to the whole registration mess to begin with... i would imagine that the name alone is going cause some people to have a prejudice against them...).
though, the fact that now tony stark's shield is hiring ex-nazi scientists doesn't bode well, either...

the most intriguing character might be this new kid called "trauma" who, apparently, can read minds and shapeshift... though i'm much more interested to see who his new private tutor from the xavier institute's going to be....

52 #52

ok. the multiverse is back.... kind of anticlimactic, really. the multiverse is back and now countdown starts. ummm... i think that was really the point of the whole issue, though the ghosts of ralph and sue dibny - who apparently play a role in countdown, coming full circle, in a way, since it was sue's death that started identity crisis which led to infinite crisis which begat 52.......... but really. other than booster gold getting to see all the other earths... eh... hopefully countdown will not be a dissapointment, as some of 52 seems to have been (i'm largely been out of the loop on it. i'll have to read the trades when they come out i guess...)

Marvel Zombies vs. Heart of Darkness #3

zombie howard the duck. really all i have to say. but also, zombie power pack!? zombie hulkling? yeah... all in all, good times, with zombies!

Omega Flight #2

now, this actually brings in two interesting ideas... the best being that, well, this new canadian superhero team - in a country that has always had hero registration, but not used it as a weapon against it's own heroes - is being formed with a lot of influence by S.H.I.E.L.D. and this, understandably, has the canadians pissed. now that the US's villains - and fugitive heroes - are causing problems on the other side of the border, we're asking them - by helping them form and fund this new team - to basically, clean up our mess... and the new team:

USAgent... umm.... why? seriously, a wannabe captain america fighting for a wannabe america? (kidding... though i guess that's how he'd look at it...)
Sasquatch (the only survivor from alpha flight)
Talisman (daughter of a dead former alpha flight member, Shaman)
Arachne (Julia Carpenter, like spiderman, also now back in black...)
and Michael Pointer, who had at one point been the vessel for "the collective" (ie, all the mutant powers that were lost in M-Day as one giant energy ball), and who - in that form - was what killed the original alpha flight...

so... yeah... more to come... maybe it will get more interesting once there's a team... but wait... it's only 5 issues....

incredible hulk #106

ok. world war hulk begins now. but, oddly, no actual hulk in this issue (except in flashback)... she hulk's pissed though, and finally decided to take some action... however, it does set up a little bit whose side some characters - namely, Angel and Hercules - are going to be on when banner returns... well... probably anyway...

most importantly, they're finally going to tell a good Hulk story for the first time in forever...

anyway. that's all for now...