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Aug. 14th, 2008 08:57 pmI am slowly flocking and private-ing bits of my journal, I think the public face is going to be fannish, with random bits of other public worthy squee, friends only for some real life stuff (I've made a filter for people who know me in rl) and private for others (this was prompted by rereading entries which now seem so blatantly young/depressed/etc that I'm not sure I'm super comfortable with having them public - not deleting them, but just shoving them into the closet for the moment, it does seem somehow journaling dishonest, but lj always walks a weird public/private line and having them out there tips me more toward discomfort at the moment).
I'll do one of those "this journal is somewhat friends-only" posts when I get caught up and post to that filter, on the off chance I missed adding someone (or there are multiple journals and I've added the wrong one).
Not that this will effect how this journal seems on the whole, as I am an entirely dismal failure at the whole enterprise anyway! (If they would only just make some kind of neural interface, the web would never be safe from my vast internal ramblings, esp. now with the swimming which allows for a vast distractionless opportunity to navel gaze, ha ha).
Recent Entertainments:
Runaways (the comic): Love it up through the end of Joss's run (v2 issue 30), but have reservations about the new team starting in Sept (even if Vaughn is up to his usual HORRIBLE tricks - how I have not forgiven him for certain things in Y, which I have still not managed to read the last issue of) so I won't be regularly buying that until I see how the new guys handle things (but all of the stuff previously published is gold, even the crossovers).
Wonder Woman (the comic): Started with volume three (whatever that means, it was the most recent of reboots), which started out horrid, nearly unreadable through several guest writers who had been brought in from the "outside" (tv writer, novelist etc), who didn't seem to quite get how to do modern comics except in a stupidly cheesy way (particularly the first guy, there were endless lines of dialogue of things like "but of course I am WONDER WOMAN" and endless iterations of the characters basic facts - I know the serial books struggle mightily with this because you never know which issue will be someone's first issue and you don't want to alienate them with a lack of information, but part of writing these books is maintaining that balance and most of the so called volume 3 issues I've read failed mightily with this.
Then came Gail Simone, like a breath of fresh, well written air and lo I read a decently written Wonder Woman comic that didn't make me hate every facet of her mythology and characterization and I almost cried! So um yeah, WW is probably joining She-Hulk and a very few other titles as comics that I actually shell out for.
Which are She-Hulk, Powers (I don't know if I even like it anymore, but I kind of need to see what happens to Deena, so), Kabuki (which is being published at a rate of about one issue for year, so I frequently forget about its existence, Astonishing X-Men (for Joss's run, but Warren Ellis is apparently taking over now, and given my fondness for his run on the Authority, I'm giving him a chance), Serenity (there is a new mini series out, but I haven't read it, but it's out and the covers made me cry :( ) and Supreme Power (if he ever puts out another issue). So yeah, not much.
I was reading Fables, because I really like the concept, and some of the execution, but great swaths of it piss me off, so I can't actually pay for it, despite my love for Snow, Bigby, Cindy and various others. It's the kind of thing I'd love to read in a class, to talk about the possibility of the stories it tells, as well as the sad, sad failures (oh Snow, how Willingham has marginalized you). If you like fairy tale retelling, check it out from the library or something, because intriguing yes, infuriating, yes (the basic premise is that characters from fairy tales have escaped into our world after their own worlds were invaded by a conquering army). The first part is a bit clunky, but the writing does eventually loosen up.
I'll do one of those "this journal is somewhat friends-only" posts when I get caught up and post to that filter, on the off chance I missed adding someone (or there are multiple journals and I've added the wrong one).
Not that this will effect how this journal seems on the whole, as I am an entirely dismal failure at the whole enterprise anyway! (If they would only just make some kind of neural interface, the web would never be safe from my vast internal ramblings, esp. now with the swimming which allows for a vast distractionless opportunity to navel gaze, ha ha).
Recent Entertainments:
Runaways (the comic): Love it up through the end of Joss's run (v2 issue 30), but have reservations about the new team starting in Sept (even if Vaughn is up to his usual HORRIBLE tricks - how I have not forgiven him for certain things in Y, which I have still not managed to read the last issue of) so I won't be regularly buying that until I see how the new guys handle things (but all of the stuff previously published is gold, even the crossovers).
Wonder Woman (the comic): Started with volume three (whatever that means, it was the most recent of reboots), which started out horrid, nearly unreadable through several guest writers who had been brought in from the "outside" (tv writer, novelist etc), who didn't seem to quite get how to do modern comics except in a stupidly cheesy way (particularly the first guy, there were endless lines of dialogue of things like "but of course I am WONDER WOMAN" and endless iterations of the characters basic facts - I know the serial books struggle mightily with this because you never know which issue will be someone's first issue and you don't want to alienate them with a lack of information, but part of writing these books is maintaining that balance and most of the so called volume 3 issues I've read failed mightily with this.
Then came Gail Simone, like a breath of fresh, well written air and lo I read a decently written Wonder Woman comic that didn't make me hate every facet of her mythology and characterization and I almost cried! So um yeah, WW is probably joining She-Hulk and a very few other titles as comics that I actually shell out for.
Which are She-Hulk, Powers (I don't know if I even like it anymore, but I kind of need to see what happens to Deena, so), Kabuki (which is being published at a rate of about one issue for year, so I frequently forget about its existence, Astonishing X-Men (for Joss's run, but Warren Ellis is apparently taking over now, and given my fondness for his run on the Authority, I'm giving him a chance), Serenity (there is a new mini series out, but I haven't read it, but it's out and the covers made me cry :( ) and Supreme Power (if he ever puts out another issue). So yeah, not much.
I was reading Fables, because I really like the concept, and some of the execution, but great swaths of it piss me off, so I can't actually pay for it, despite my love for Snow, Bigby, Cindy and various others. It's the kind of thing I'd love to read in a class, to talk about the possibility of the stories it tells, as well as the sad, sad failures (oh Snow, how Willingham has marginalized you). If you like fairy tale retelling, check it out from the library or something, because intriguing yes, infuriating, yes (the basic premise is that characters from fairy tales have escaped into our world after their own worlds were invaded by a conquering army). The first part is a bit clunky, but the writing does eventually loosen up.
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