Lemme say this before I get to the comix thing. Because people bitch about the weather so damn much this needs to be said and said loudly. I am currently living through the most beautiful Summer I have ever seen. Seriously. Gorgeous. Rarely over 80 degrees. Seldomly lower than 70. Once or twice over 85. Sunny and breezy and not even humid all that much. Top it off with some pretty dazzling Thunderstorms, always in the early/late evening when I've already gotten home and you got yourself one helluva Summer.
There now. Can't say that all I do is bitch about the weather. Moving on.
Picked up some good stuff at the LCS today. Got me some Avengers: Initiative, Avengers: Mighty, Walking Dead, Spidey, etc. Gonna be good. Already tore through the Kirkman and may post later in the week about it in a feature (it's over-due, trust me) so I will stay coy about it now, but dude. it was pretty fine.
Got my solicits for October and may sign up for DC's infinite halloween thingie, sounds like a blast. Thats where all of Arkhum's residents take turns trying to scare each other with stories every year. Got some interesting names penning stories this time around, David Arquette being the oddest and most "hmmm that could be good or really, really bad." Also definitely going to get me some Messiah Complex because apparently I am a complete X-man whore. Seriously. Never knew it before, never thought that this is where I would be, not too long ago I was content with my Dark Knight and my Sandman and my Fables. But now I'm like that one cheerleader from your high-school varsity team who nobody knows how she got on the team because she's not particularly athletic but certianly turns heads and ends up sleeping with the entire football team. The football team this time being Cyclops, Beast, Gambit, Cannonball, Wolverine, Iceman, and Jamie Madrox.
Keep sweeping through the Indies and Undies and never really find anything to shout about. Sure there's your hellboys and WDs and 603 titles penned by Ellis, Ennis, and Carey, but nothing has tickled my fancy in a great while. With the other hounds lording it up over Buffy and the complete Brian Wood comicography, its slim pickens. So yeah, anybody got any recommendations I'm all ears.
So cenTrale's old 7th tier of Hell chum is selling off his comics and I'm interested in taking a gander. Should be some good stuff. I wonder when that day will arrive for me. When I make the inevitable sale that everyone seems to make. When assets are liquidated, comics are sworn off for a year or so, maybe 2, then you walk in on a lark and pick up an issue of your favorite character and you are right back where you started, the cycle is complete. There's no escape, there's a reason we're Hellhounds. Its downright easy to drop by and walk through our gates, we're not guarding the way in, not that persistently that is. But try and get yourself out... good luck to ya.
Next Monday I will be on the road with the Siren so there may be a delay or a lack of something sinister altogether. Well, most of the drive will be through Ohio and Indiana so scratch that, there will be plenty of sinister things but they will be more of the mundane persuasion, like grown men wearing sweatpants outside of the confines of their home and towns small enough to survive solely around a single gas stations that double as a grocery store, movie rental shop, gossip fount, ice cream stand, apothecary, funeral home, and bingo parlor. *shudder*
Laters.
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