The Dork Post

[oakenguy]

Getting it all out of my system in one fell swoop:

Waiting at home is the latest Netflix, Trigun: the (edit)Wolfwood episodes (otherwise known as "the squee-inducing male bonding episodes"). D *will* be addicted shortly, she just doesn't know it.

I finished Diablo II the other night, and it felt like a bit of an anti-climax: after the horror show that previous boss fights had been, it was a fairly routine bit of what the Salon reviewers dubbed 'chop and shop': whack-whack-whack at the big monster, portal back to town, buy another eight healing potions, portal back to the monster, whack-whack-whack some more, repeat until game ends. But on the bright side, the day after I finished I got a letter from my nephew saying he'd just started playing. It's nice to be ahead of him for once!

I picked up a few issues of 'Common Grounds', yet another in the new Marvels/Powers/Astro City/my own glorious opus comic book trend of looking at super-powered folks from other angles. The conceit of this one is that there's a chain of donut shops that are neutral ground, a place for powereds to hang out and chat, and for an issue or two it holds up...but then it becomes "Chicken Soup for the Super-Powered Soul". Almost literally--there were danger signs early on when we read about siblings realizing they still loved their dead supervillain father, but that was four or five happy reconciliations ago, and now we're at the point of watching a Captain America-style hero question her patriotism and then have her hope renewed by, I kid you not, a teary-eyed immigrant child who Loves America. It's so inspirational and sparkly-clean it makes my gums bleed. It's the comic book equivalent of the Revels (sorry, modpixie!)

Comments

[mrs-puppethead.livejournal.com]

*cough* Wolfwood. *cough*

[northernminx.livejournal.com]

What is this comic of which you speak?

(and dear lord the more you post, the more I constantly wonder how the hell I didn't meet you before KAF)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

It's called 'Common Grounds'--it's an Image/Top Cow production with a lot of big-name artists rotating in.

And hee!

[empheliath.livejournal.com]

All I can picture now is The Tick, and American Maid and Deflatur Mause and whats-his-name that is The Tick's sidekick that dresses like a moth sitting in their diner chatting. And Deflatur Mause gets a box of gingerbread men and sings, "Somebody loves Deflatur Mause!" but he doesn't realize they were sent by a villain and will try to kill him when they come alive.
Why, oh, why is that cartoon not on DVD yet?
I aplogize wholeheartedly for my mangling of the name Deflatur Mause, by the way.

[maxineofarc.livejournal.com]

"Wolfwood."

"Die Fledermaus."

[empheliath.livejournal.com]

"Die Fledermaus."

Hey! Now it actually looks like what it means!
Thanks.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

sorry? why? i didn't realise you thought the revels were that problematic...am i on crack?

[plastickitty.livejournal.com]

Trigun trigun trigun!!!! I think you've just inspired a marathon