Onefinemess

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2007 in Marvel minorities

| December 30, 2007

Random info: Marvel has 3 black writers currently (that I know of): Reginald Hudlin (of BET fame, not sure where to link to) on Black Panther, Dwayne McDuffie (who’s been in the biz for ages) on Fantastic Four & Damage Control (& Avengers classic?), and newcomer Kevin Grevioux (I would link to his site, www.kevingrevioux.net, [...]

Book review: Mistborn

| December 30, 2007

Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson I wonder if that’s his real name. It “rolls” too easily, at least in the sense that I wouldn’t have named my kid Brandon if that was my last name. But hey, that’s just me. On to the book. I went into this not expecting much at all – I just [...]

12/28/07 – last pull of the year!

| December 29, 2007

And it wasn’t really anything all that special, but there was some good stuff. Avengers: Initiative #8 This title hasn’t failed to impress yet. More madcap happenings both above and below ground at super-hero-u. Clone more MVPs you say? That sounds like a brilliant idea! And yet, nothing ever works out quite that well does [...]

Book review: Horizons

| December 27, 2007

Hmm. What to say. Well, I definitely liked the book, and there must have been some decently done suspense type stuff, because I rushed through the last 30 or so pages last night. But, overall it felt a little lacking. I can’t put my finger on exactly what – it felt a lot like a [...]

Book review: Color and Money

| December 23, 2007

The short: *Very dry: The beginning and the end were tough to stay awake during.  The middle had some spots that seemed to be written differently enough to keep me awake.  Or maybe I just had more sleep those days. *Full of useful information: If you’re curious about the state of affirmative action in the [...]

12/19/07 – Mighty Avengers 6 finally shipped

| December 23, 2007

Note: My post got un-edited somehow and reset to an older version, losing about 70% of my commentary. Not that anyone cares, but I can’t remember specifically what I said, and I don’t have time to retype it. So the last 3 reviews are very brief. FUCK! Mighty Avengers 6 It’s about fucking time! So [...]

Google street view for Portland is live…

| December 22, 2007

and I’m the last one to know! Some points of interest: Our last house Excalibur comics (where I buy my stuff)

12/19/07 – in brief

| December 21, 2007

Checkmate 21 – Stuff about France and French people. *yawn* Don’t care. Countdown 19 – The corpse thing is really getting old. I hope it “goes somewhere”. Countdown whatever Superwoman-Batwoman – This was marginally interesting. Sure, it was mostly just the same thing as Amazons Attack with more tits (amazingly!), but I wouldn’t mind seeing [...]

What’s on my “to read” stack?

| December 15, 2007

You ask? OK, you didn’t, but for all intents and purposes that really doesn’t matter. Note that you can almost always tell what I’m currently reading, and what I just read, in the “Recent Reading” sidebar, which links to the two most recent entries into my Librarything library. But, what if you want to know [...]

12/12/07 addendum – Salvation Run 02

| December 14, 2007

WTF is up with this? The whole Lex Luthor go USA speech thing – that worked – really? Oh, and the Joker is tired, old, and boring. We get it, he has no powers but his insanity. Would he really be able to kill Psimon though? I very powerful TELEPATH and TELEKINETIC? Answer, no, he [...]