It's A Binary World 2.0

Category: Culture & Entertainment

  • Comic Reviews: Detective Comics, Prelude to Schism, X-Factor

    Holy Freakin’ Wow! Detective Comics # 875 – Lost Boys I loved this issue from cover to cover! First time I can say that in 2011! Wow! I loved Bullock’s section even though it didn’t really have anything to do with the story. I loved how it was drawn and coloured and how his narration…

  • Comic Reviews: Astonishing X-Men, Onslaught, Batman, Inc

    Like a fun Sci-Fi Movie Astonishing X-Men # 38 – “Meanwhile” Part One This issue reads like a fun sci-fi movie. It’s great – it’s almost like a cross-over comic I read a decade ago where Superman ends up on the planet with the Aliens from Alien. In fact, the X-Men go to investigate a…

  • Comic Reviews: Batman and Superman, Batman and Robin, X-Men, FF, X-Men: Legacy, X-Factor

    Falls off so quickly The Batman Chronicles # 7 – The first story is pretty neat – you get to see differences in how Batman and Superman interpret the law and due process as they fight to save a woman who may have been falsely put to the death penalty. And Batman and Supes even…

  • Comic Reviews: Flashpoint, Flashpoint: Batman, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Uncanny X-Force

    Another Good Arc Intro Batman and Robin # 23 – The Streets Run Red, Part 1 of 3: Ins and Outs And, I should mention, another cover that lies. (Been seeing a lot of those on the 2011 FF book) Anyway, I’m not sure how much of this sticks with the DCU Reboot/Refresh, but it…

  • Comic Reviews: Gotham City Sirens, Harley Quinn, FF, and Flashpoint

    I wanted to share my comic book reviews with my blog-reading audience without forcing them to go to Comic Vine to find them.   Leaves you Wanting More Gotham City Sirens # 23 – Friends, Part 1 I am just returning to reading comics after a 12 year hiatus. Additionally, I was never that big…

  • June 2011 Video Game Play Time

    Just one game this month, it’s been quite a busy month for me!     Mass Effect (8 hours) – This is a great game that I’d heard about for a long time, but never got around to playing.  A recent Steam sale made it cheap enough for me to give it a try and…

  • Last.fm Listening Habits 2011 Q2

    I started off this quarter ending my random listening. I wanted to listen to certain artists I really enjoyed. I figured I could go back to random once I got bored of choosing the artists I was listening to. Additionally, in between picking certain artists if I wanted to hear a certain song, I started…

  • First Playthrough of Mass Effect (Part 2)

    Sometimes I think what I want is Mass Effect: The Laserdisc game.  I love the story and I love the Codex entries.  Just getting completely engrossed in the Mass Effect world.  What I don’t enjoy is the fighting.  This isn’t because I’m bad at it.  My cover-based shooter noob days are long behind me with…

  • May Video Games

    I forgot to check for the May video game play times before it was too deep into June, so I lost my FFX playtime.  The others are pretty accurate. Final Fantasy X – finished the game.  Review here. Portal 2 (3 hrs) – finished multi-player game with Dan.  That game is AWESOME.  I was only…

  • Review: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 1

    Entirely separately from my recent reintroduction into the traditional comic world, I’ve been into graphic novels, as you’ve probably read on this blog.  An article I read on Cracked brought The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LoEG) back into my consciousness and then I read the [non-comic] books The Map of Time and Dracula.  So I…

  • Going Back to Comics

    note: this was written on 1 June then put into my blog queue I don’t remember exactly what made me decide to check out some new comics, but I think it was a mix of inventorying my comics and clicking over to the Whiskey Media site, Comic Vine.  In the reviews for May’s comics, two…

  • Nanowrimo 2010

    So, I started working on my Nanowrimo partway through November.  I quit partway through because I fell too far behind.  So I reworked the story to have a better ending than the rambling mess it had become and tried to get some people to edit it for me.  They’ve been busy and I’m sick of…

  • Looking Back at Comic Books

    Recently I was thinking about cataloguing my comic books.  Recent family events convinced me to get on with it and so I spent all weekend putting the information into the KDE collection database Tellico.  It had lots of useful fields to fill out, so I figured I was probably only going to do this once…

  • First Playthough of Mass Effect Part 1

      I recently bought Mass Effect in a Steam sale that knocked the price of Bioware’s RPG to $5. Thanks yet again to the guys at the Giant Bombcast (seriously, this is the second or third I’ve bought because of them and fourth or fifth from podcast recommendations), I’d wanted to play the game, but…

  • Thoughts on Final Fantasy X

    note: this game came out ten years ago, so I’m going to speak about spoilers freely I finished Final Fantasy X a few weeks ago. I’d started playing it a long time ago, but the horrible voice acting grated on my nerves and I stopped playing. But, as I was making a list of games…