Agree on Doctor Who. The episode was great and fuck the anti-Clara bunch, she gave a great performance as Clara The Doctor. It's probably as close as we'll ever come to a female Doctor.
Another week, another...wait, what have I been doing?
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 On 10/21/2014 at 02:40 PM by daftman See More From This User » |
Man, the week+ since my last blog has been very busy. New baby, going back to work (plus an overtime day), and my wife has had some trouble with her stitches (she tore a little during the birth). I've played a little Monster Hunter on PSP but that's about it. Been reading a lot of comics lately (courtesy of the library, of course) because that's so much easier to do than play a game. I finished Sandman 3 and it was really good. I've started vol 4 and it looks like we're back to main story again (vol 3 was just unrelated short stories, though very good ones). I'm just in the first section of that but so far it's really interesting.
I read the first two volumes of Batgirl and those were pretty good. The writer really nailed her inner monologue. She seems like a complicated but sympathetic character. I was also surprised to find that they didn't sex her up in the artwork. Well, other than a few choice panels at the end of vol 2, but they put a lot more confidence in her character than I expected and it's a stronger series for it. I do wish she'd fought at least one familiar badguy but the villains were still quite interesting. On the flip side of that I read the first volume of Batwoman and it was very different from Batgirl. The main character is a total jerk, for starters, and the story had a heavy supernatural bent. Looks like the long arc might be more political your typical Batman story too. I'm going to give the second volume a try and see if I can stand Kate Kane for another 80 or 100 pages or whatever it is.
But first Sandman!
That's not all I read this week, though we have to go back two years to get the context. On Free Comic Book Day (the only time I've ever gone) I got the first issue of the Mega Man comic from Archie and it was pretty good. I tried to find issues 2-4 but it turned out to be more trouble than I was willing to go through (my local comic store was unable to order them). Well I finally got around to ordering the trades for the first two volumes from Amazon (no, my library didn't have them). They didn't take very long to read (got through vol 2 in one sitting) but they were just so...enjoyable. They have an earnestness and sincerity that you just don't see anymore. Definitely my favorite thing I read this week. I'll be picking up the rest of the trades sometime. This is a series I'm glad to own.
Since I mentioned it last week too, what'd you guys think of Dr. Who? I thought it was probably the best episode of the season so far. Yeah, the anti-Clara bunch aren't happy but I thought it was great how she had to walk a mile in his shoes, so to speak. The doctor hasn't always been real nice this season but she found out it's not as easy as it looks. And we finally saw a little of the old doctor when he sent those monsters back where they came from yelled that he protected this plane. I've enjoyed this whole season but it just gets better each week.
Now let's see...I've got a crap ton of old blogs to read O_O I make no promises!
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