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Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon’s latest project, is up for viewing in full online through Hulu for a limited time. Follow the link below for comic-superhero-musical awesomeness. There is a few crude jokes but nothing too bad.
Seriously Fox, bring back Firefly. . . right now.
As I posted a few days ago, I’ve taken up reading comics recently and I have my first favorite (unless you count web comics like Questionable Content). The comic Invincible is written by Robert Kirkman and drawn by Cory Walker, originally, and Ryan Ottley, currently. It has a great sense of humor and is smart without being overly so. Of the other two I picked up, they were alright. Preacher was kind of a dud. I was into the story at a couple of points but for the most part it wasn’t good enough for me to forgive the language and graphic violence. I was just too in your face and over the top for me. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was good enough that I’ll probably read the next two volumes but not before finishing Invincible and then going back to Powers. Speaking of Powers, one of the things I like about Invincible is the way that they include characters from other comics without really doing it. The two main characters, Walker and Pilgrim, of Powers appear to investigate a crime scene in Invincible. Anyway, I’m just wasting some time at Coffee Cat before heading back to Vintage for the night service. I’m digging the change back to Daylight Savings though.
So I got up this morning and decided to do a little exploring. I’ve been wanting to go over the hill to a place called Holy City for a while to see what is there. Holy City is a utopian community that reached its height in the 1920’s and 30’s and is now largely abandoned. I was hoping maybe to find a place that would make a good site for a future photo walk with Vintage. Unfortunately, the only building that is really accessible to the public is an old garage. The rest of the development is hidden behind a gate that says “NO TRESPASSING” in big bold letters. If I was the more adventurous sort, I might press my luck and try to find a way in anyway, but I generally like to obey the law so it kind of nixed that plan. Since I now found myself with not much else to do, I decided to drive back on the Old Santa Cruz-San Jose Highway. It was a really nice drive on a bunch of windy two lane roads through the mountains.
After getting back over to this side of the mountains I headed over to Atlantis Fantasyworld and picked up some comics. Between watching iFanboy and The Totally Rad Show I’ve decided my comic book collection and knowledge is the most neglected aspect of my geekness (ouch, Firefox spell check wants to change “geekness” to “meekness”). I already picked up Volume 1 of Powers there last summer so today I added volume 1 of Preacher, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Invincible. I’ve heard good things about all three so I’m excited to get home and start going through those. I think if I had to choose between Marvel and DC I would side with Marvel but there is such a huge pile of back catalogue to go through it would take years to really get a grasp on it. Instead I’ve decided to start out with some of the shorter run more independent type comics that I can actually get through. They also seem to have a more adult nature to them, exploring morality and human nature in ways some more mainstream comics stay away from.
Anyway, I’m just waisting time at Coffee Cat right now. I woke up at 9am this morning which left me with a lot more time than I’m used to on a Saturday. So now it’s 3pm and I’ve run out of things to do. I’ll probably go buy some girl scout cookies at Safeway and then head home to do some reading. Anyway, later!
