Heave Ho!

I filled out my order sheet at the comic book store yesterday and decided that there are several more titles that are going over the side. I'm really, really tired of Brian Bendis, so New Avengers is gone. Daredevil would follow it, but the first of Ed Brubaker's issues is coming out on this order, so we'll give him a chance. Peter Milligan's X-Men is gone, for the same reasons that I've dumped Grant Morrison's books. Hulk is toast, Peter David having left the book again and my enthusiasm for the "Planet Hulk" event being completely lacking. And the non-PAD Spidey books come off the subscription list, now that "The Other" event is over.

Marvel is committing the worst sin that they can in comics -- they're simply being boring. Despite the recent House of M event and the resulting fallout, I've tired of padded storylines where nothing happens and I wait for the reset button to be pushed.

Interestingly, I'm anxiously waiting to see how DC is pushing the reset button in Infinite Crisis. But I've had the feeling that DC is going somewhere, even if I don't always agree with where they're going.

On the DC/Vertigo front, Swamp Thing gets one more month (since they're finishing a story arc), then it goes over the side too.

Heave Ho!

I filled out my order sheet at the comic book store yesterday and decided that there are several more titles that are going over the side. I'm really, really tired of Brian Bendis, so New Avengers is gone. Daredevil would follow it, but the first of Ed Brubaker's issues is coming out on this order, so we'll give him a chance. Peter Milligan's X-Men is gone, for the same reasons that I've dumped Grant Morrison's books. Hulk is toast, Peter David having left the book again and my enthusiasm for the "Planet Hulk" event being completely lacking. And the non-PAD Spidey books come off the subscription list, now that "The Other" event is over.

Marvel is committing the worst sin that they can in comics -- they're simply being boring. Despite the recent House of M event and the resulting fallout, I've tired of padded storylines where nothing happens and I wait for the reset button to be pushed.

Interestingly, I'm anxiously waiting to see how DC is pushing the reset button in Infinite Crisis. But I've had the feeling that DC is going somewhere, even if I don't always agree with where they're going.

On the DC/Vertigo front, Swamp Thing gets one more month (since they're finishing a story arc), then it goes over the side too.

Over There

daisy_knotwise and I have just booked airline tickets for 1812 Tones. I suppose I should do something about memberships next...

Over There

daisy_knotwise and I have just booked airline tickets for 1812 Tones. I suppose I should do something about memberships next...

That Was the Year That Was

The first sentence of each post for each month from January through December 2005, for those playing at home:

This article about a nanoparticle lubricant developed in Israel sounds entirely too good to be true. There are absolutely no surprises inside the cut tag... Well, it looks like I won't be going to New Orleans for our company's Solutions 2005 user conference. Returned from FilkOntario (about which more anon) to a heaping helping of Crisis du Jour which is the only thing that I've had to eat today until I grabbed the bagel that I'm munching on now between keystrokes. Well, we didn't quite talk the whole night through. My dad's widow, Connie, called today. The overnight walk for suicide prevention is coming up in two weeks and I needed to stretch out my walking mileage ahead of the date. It is when you are desperately trying to finish up your bugs so that you can go home that Microsoft Visual Studio will decide to crash. Meanwhile, back at work, our hero had finally finished untangling the incredible mess of spaghetti code from the lovely meatball inside when he discovered that someone had put oregano in the sauce some years ago. Now, you have to understand that this wasn't my idea. daisy_knotwise is home from work today with larygitis, trying to recover from her long-running cold. I booked my airline ticket for GAFilk.

That Was the Year That Was

The first sentence of each post for each month from January through December 2005, for those playing at home:

This article about a nanoparticle lubricant developed in Israel sounds entirely too good to be true. There are absolutely no surprises inside the cut tag... Well, it looks like I won't be going to New Orleans for our company's Solutions 2005 user conference. Returned from FilkOntario (about which more anon) to a heaping helping of Crisis du Jour which is the only thing that I've had to eat today until I grabbed the bagel that I'm munching on now between keystrokes. Well, we didn't quite talk the whole night through. My dad's widow, Connie, called today. The overnight walk for suicide prevention is coming up in two weeks and I needed to stretch out my walking mileage ahead of the date. It is when you are desperately trying to finish up your bugs so that you can go home that Microsoft Visual Studio will decide to crash. Meanwhile, back at work, our hero had finally finished untangling the incredible mess of spaghetti code from the lovely meatball inside when he discovered that someone had put oregano in the sauce some years ago. Now, you have to understand that this wasn't my idea. daisy_knotwise is home from work today with larygitis, trying to recover from her long-running cold. I booked my airline ticket for GAFilk.