June 10, 2007
Catching up.
I’ve been doing a lot of that lately, mostly with comic books. I had a box or two of comics dating back 8-9 months that i needed to catch up - including weeklies like 52. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I started to go back in fill in story gaps after they’re One Year Later idea. Somehow, even knowing the stuff that filled the gap, most of the books make just as little sense as to what happened to their characters. At least Supergirl is that way, I guess Wonder Woman and Superman made sense. I still need to catch up on Hawkgirl, Flash, Teen Titans, Outsiders, JLA, Superman, and a few others.
One I did sneak in there is the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer book being written by Joss Whedon. It’s nice to get to know these characters again. The dialog is just what it was on the show, but there can be a little more imagination added since there’s no limits of TV (or the disbelief of the average TV viewer.) I’m looking forward to that one month to month.
So Wizard World Philadelphia is this weekend. That’s right, I’m going back to another convention. Part of me goes because I’m fairly normal compared to some of these people. Another is that I have a shopping list of things to catch up on. Mostly its for the guest list - it’s rather impressive. I may even get Richard Kiel’s autograph. (I linked that, cause none of you are gonna know who that is.) Hayden Panettiere is also gonna be there. (That I won’t link, cause you should all know that one, it’s not as archaic a reference.) Non-tv wise, some of my favorite comic book artists are gonna be there, and I might get some stuff autographed. (My backpack may be full before I walk into the joint.)
Nighthawk is well past 54K and pulling up on 55K. I don’t know how bad the next checkup is, but I’ll probably need the brakes checked out too - they’ve got some whine every now and then.
Tonight ends the world of the Sopranos. I’ve made my predictions post already, it’ll go live just after the show ends. I don’t know how right I am, but I don’t think anyone can really predict anything. But we in the family are trying - we’ve jotted down our predictions, and put a little wager on who is the most right (out of 5 predictions). I may be 2 bucks richer at 10 PM.