Hulk 600 was horrible, Jeph Loeb, please go back to TV

onefinemess | July 27, 2009

Hulk 600 was indeed, horrible.  Mind-blowingly so.  Jeph Loeb may be the Greg Land of writing.  Harsh, I know.  It’s not a completely accurate comparison, as he doesn’t exactly “trace” his plots – I suspect he uses the Burroughs cut-up technique, albeit unintentionally and in a complete art-fail.  I suspect he has a pile of [...]

book review: Foucault’s Pendulum

onefinemess | July 21, 2009

By: Umbert Eco
Reading this book is like masturbating with crippling arthritis (or so I imagine) – it takes forever and it’s really painful, but there must be a payoff at the end, right??
Update: I finished and yes, that’s pretty much what it’s like.  I would add to that that the resultant orgasm is weak and [...]

07/15/09 comic notes

onefinemess | July 15, 2009

Uncanny X-Men 513: This Utopia thing is DUMB.  Emma and Scott “breaking up” or whatever is dumb.  It makes me suspect they’re bringing  Jean back again (also dumb). Oh Matt Fraction, wherefor art thou and wtf?   At least in only lasts 2 months.
By the way, Norman Osborn is also dumb and obnoxious and annoying.  He’s [...]

Curious George and the Firefighters, edited

onefinemess | July 7, 2009

OK people, here’s the deal: I’ve had to read this book to Z about 2 million times so far, and besides wanted to burn it in an unholy inferno, I also want to track down the writer and editor and accidentally knock them into the same glorious blaze.  Why?
Because I’m anal.  I know, I know,  [...]

Book Reviews: Warbreaker and Elantris

onefinemess | July 5, 2009

Warbreaker
by: Brandon Sanderson
His latest, although evidently it was written a while ago, or something.  He also released early drafts of it on the web for free.  I probably should have checked them out, to see more about how his process went but I hate reading books on computer.
So. Yeah this was good, it took me [...]