Took Me Such a Long Time To Figure It Out

This is my first post in over a week, aside from the regular update on my X-Men round-ups. Not that I’ve been really busy, but I always found something “better” to do than write for the blog. Excuses, I know.

Let’s see what I’ve been up to since my last update…

I went to the ‘Iron Man’ premiere last Thursday but unfortunately I didn’t call earlier to the theatre to check if there are available seats. I should have guessed better, since it was the debut of a digital projector and many reporters were invited. I actually had a free ticket thanks to a friend, but I came with my brother from afar and I wouldn’t leave him outside or wait for 2 hours and a half for the next screening. Therefore we decided to go another day.

We went to a Sunday afternoon screening and loved it. I won’t talk about the movie, because I did it for days on other forums and I’m sure everything was already said about it. If you didn’t watch it yet and read reviews, then all good things said about the film are completely true. I’m already waiting for the 2010 sequel and the Avengers movie to be filmed later (with all the rest of the solo Marvel movies – Thor, Captain America etc).

Last Friday was the Free Comic Book Day (already mentioned it last week). I got many free books and I’ll talk about them later. I bought Wizard #200 Gold and Platinum editions, as planned, and DC Universe Zero. 50 cents of utter disappointment. DC lovers may love it, but not me and from reactions I’ve seen, I’m not the only one. That’s what happens when a publisher favors its regular readers and ignores the rest. If that’s a sign to what will come out of Final Crisis, then I already lowered my expectations.

The comic books I read in the passing week were the usual X-books I read for free: X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead (in first glance an unnecessary one-shot, but mostly written well and looks like the first step in the redemption of Quicksilver), Cable #3 (continues in its mediocrity, but the Bishop scenes were nice) and Young X-Men #2 (still not good and looks like the worst X-book out there. Yes, Cable, you already lost the title). Other than these, I read Mighty Avengers #13 (too much of introduction of the new Howling Commandos, but mostly written well. Had at least two problems with Maleev’s art, but the rest is great as always) and Secret Invasion #2 (not as good as #1, but still liked it. Felt too short. I’m working on a dissection of the issue, like I did with the previous one).

On the job front, there’s nothing new. I made a move this week but no fruition yet, and I’m afraid it was too late. I still have at least one card hidden in my sleeve and I intend to use it tomorrow, so I’m crossing my fingers.

If anyone wondered about the lists, I’m working on it. I had the time to think about new ideas so they will be back soon. I decided to drop the regular schedule and do it whenever I can and have something to write.

For the final chord I decided to finish with two songs:

1. Josh Homme and PJ Harvey, two of my favorite artists, with ‘Crawl Home’ as part of Homme’s Desert Sessions side project. The headline of the post came from this song.

2. Willie Nelson’s cover to ‘Blue Skies’. One of many versions of the song, yet my own favorite.

-T.

~ by Spidey_82 on May 10, 2008.