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Going Back to Comics

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:01:09 +0000

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 books sounded interesting: FF and Gotham City Sirens. I went to my local comic book shop, Comics to Astonish, and also ended up picking up a bunch of issues from the old Harley Quinn book. As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I was always into Marvel so I surprisingly chose to read Gotham City Sirens (GCS) as my first super hero comic since 1997.

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Looking Back at Comic Books

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:01:17 +0000

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 and so I may as well do it correctly. I entered in the names of the writers, pencillers, inkers, and so on. And I learned some interesting stuff.

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Review: Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:01:12 +0000

It took a bit of convincing from Dan, but eventually I read the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels. I knew right away that this was a book written for people like me. Just like Dr Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, people older or younger than me would never get the full appreciation of all the references. I thoroughly hated the eponymous protagonist until I got near the end of the book and realized why he was so annoying. So, once my brother got the movie on Blu-ray, I knew it’d be just a matter of time before I saw it. I think the movie’s casting was spot-on. The actors who played Kim Pine, Knives Chau, Wallace Well, and Young Neil were perfect. Their delivery (and, to some extent, appearance) was exactly what I pictured it would be like. Michael Cera was even a really good choice for Scott. He wasn’t as perfect, but he did a good job and it fit his acting abilities. Ramona Flowers’ actress was also good, although not as great as the others.

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Spiderman Predicts the future

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:35:24 +0000

It’s interesting how Science Fiction often predicts future technologies and trends. For example, this morning on CNN they were talking about a research group that is trying to switch on the gene in humans that would cause limbs to regrow. Apparently they haven’t seen what happens when you do that (I say tongue-in-cheek). Peter Parker’s favorite professor was trying to regrow his arm and his technique, which I believe involved splicing reptilian DNA, turned him into one of Spiderman’s fiercest foes, The Lizard.

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