Belatedly bookslutty and other fun stuff

[yendi]

Forgot to mention it, but the latest Bookslut is up, complete with a new Fear Factor column. In spite of the title ("The Anne Rice Factor"), it's about a lot more than Anne Rice (yeah, I need to start submitting my own column titles).

We got our massive box'o'comics from Westfield the other day. Too much goodness to count: Identity Crisis #4, every Bendis title (my thoughts on Avengers 502: no body, no death, and remember what happened with Green Arrow), both the Ellis and Waid FF, and other fun stuff. Including two Aaron Williams books, Nodwick and PS238.

If you don't read anything by Williams, you're missing out on one of the most under-appreciated creators out there. Nodwick (see icon), started as light D&D one-shot jokes, but has actually evolved into possibly the funniest ongoing series out there, with plotlines that run six issues and still manage to hold together and crack me up. And Piffany (the cleric, of course) is simply my favorite character in comics.

PS238 is the tale of a hidden school for super-powered children. It started a little slowly (as Williams spent a lot of time establishing the characters), but the most recent issue just kicked all sorts of ass.

He also writes and draws the webcomic Full Frontal Nerdity, which is yet another geek-oriented strip (a la Knights of the Dinner Table and Dork Tower), but a damned funny one.

Oh, one more comic: Madrox. Anyone with fond memories of Era 2 of X-Factor will love this, as Strong Guy, Multiple Man, and Rahne are as enjoyable as always. It's not as light as Peter David's run on that series, but it's a great start.

Random:

I do want a copy of The Complete Bone. I just have a fear that it'll fall apart in moments. It's twice the size of Box Office Poison, which I'm afraid to read too often itself. I'll wait until I heard more good feedback about the packaging (the content, of course, I know kicks ass).

theferrett has taken Shadesong's previous discussion on quotable movies and distilled it down into a poll. Personally, I had trouble choosing (if it was the "best movie with great quotes," Casablanca would win by a landslide, no matter how fond I am of almost every other title on that list), and pretty much settled for a mental coin flip.

Like old-time radio shows? Go here, now!

(Yeah, I bolded that. Because it's too important to get overlooked.)

For those of you who haven't been following closely, by the way, I'm a snob, and all of you are sycophants. Trolls never lie.

And shadesong has more Incubus Dreams snobbery today, complete with spoilers. Warning: what she writes about may squeak squick you.

And finally, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded. Can you believe that Dubya somehow failed to win?

Comments

[correspondguy.livejournal.com]

Shocked! I am shocked that our beloved president did not win. I demand a recount!

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Oooh! I get to be a syncophant! Yay!

(*snerk*)

[tablesaw]

Syncophants are sycophants who have saucier rhythm.

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

*giggles and blushes* Yes, yes we are.

And I always do that. I'm usually better about catching that typo. I guess I've always wanted my mindless followers to have rhythm.

[snippy]

They gave the Nobel peace prize to Arafat. It's been meaningless since at least then.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

My copy of The Complete Bone is blessedly intact after one reading, and seems pretty solid altogether. Surprisingly so, in fact.

[yendi]

Thanks! That's excellent news!

[redcrowstudio.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Complete Bone is a quality book -- I've had no problems at all with mine. I understand Jeff Smith used a bible printer to do the job, so they knew a thing or two about binding big books. The paper stock is a lighter weight than average, but not so that you can see through the pages. It's also at slightly less than the original comic dimensions (6.5"x9"), which suits the artwork just fine.

[yendi]

A Bible printer? That's perfect, as it's definitely a book I'm willing to worship.

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the OTR link - folks should be sure to grab things asap. We used to have quite a few OTR sites on the net, but many got shut down with Cease & Desist letters from some of the commercial tape producers in an ownership battle over who owned the rights to the material. I worry that any new site may disappear for similar reasons.

The stupid thing is that many of the shows are not under copyright, but Public Domain, but in copyright battles these days it all comes down to who has the most money and the most lawyers that wins, not the reality of the law. You can be right and financially broken from proving you're right on such causes.

[yendi]

*nod* That's why many of the shows that get posted are the ones that pick "unpopular" characters, since posting Superman or The Shadow shows (even ones past copyright) might invite corporate bullying scrutiny

I'm not going to read <lj user="shadesong"> 's review...

[softlywhispered.livejournal.com]

yet, because I've not read the book completely, but I did read the first chapter (the first three actually appear in a romance novella called "THE HUNGER" a compilation novel by several, and her name is what made me buy it" and caught 2 editorial errors. The first was "He was right.He was right" on page 6, and there there was the squeak?(squick?) mention. It's still a fun book so far, but yeah, I can't read Song's report until I've read the whole thing.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I have not gotten my "Yendi Does All My Thinking" shirt, or my weekly telepathic commands to root for the Mets.

That's OK, the people who are getting the Nobel in lit and peace for the last couple of years been questionable.

[yendi]

We've been experiencing technical difficulties. We should have the telepathic commands fixed soon.

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the promotion! I was once a Toady, then I made Lackey. Now I find I'm a Sycophant! Woo-hoo!

(Does that come with a raise?)

[yendi]

No raise, but you do get added responsibilities!

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Gimme a good catchy phrase, I'll CafePress a T-shirt of this. ;)

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

My sycophantic lickspittle comment for the day is this:
You did a review on horror book series and didn't mention Stephen King? Sure, they're all (except Dark Tower and Green Mile) published as standalone novels, but they all build on the Kingiverse.

[yendi]

I already gave SK an entire column in which I was snarkier than I ever was to LKH, actually. But although they're in a shared universe, I don't think of them as a series, really (other than DT, which I think of as more fantasy than anything).

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll buy that.
Thanks for explaining.

Dark Tower just made J cry ... sigh, there are some things I am going to miss about him, and talking about books is one of them.