Forgot to do one earlier, so a merged report! Also, something.
Get something published.
Sent off another 4 manuscripts. I really like paper better than electronic.
Win Nanowrimo.
Nope.
Write 10 short stories.
Working on the fourth.
Complete editing a novel.
Must resructure chapter two, possibly merge it with chapter three and GOD why does this first draft suck so bad?!
Revise Scions.
Put it away for a while, but I'm going to pick it up again tomorrow. I hope I'm a little more inspired.
Update Genetically Impaired weekly for 6 months.
I have all of the updates ready, loaded and done until August 14th rolls around. I'm going to keep updating it too, though now I'll cut down to an hour a week working on it. Er, maybe I'll explain the scheduling habit I've developed. In the mean time, showing off what I got!
Nice little set with a book, some chocolate, HMV gift card and stuff from Etsy. I'm a girl sometimes.
The Hood #1 & #2
I loved the old series of the Hood, I can't believe I missed this one coming out. And wow, apparently I've missed a few things. When the hell did Parker become a big shot? He seems to be running the underworld now, though not without people looking to usurp his power and him trying to still be a good guy when he's not in costume.
But to compensate for no longer being some chump, he now seems to be in a constant conflict with Dormamu, which suits me just fine. It's nice to see how tenuous his grip is on everything and how well he's holding it together despite it. Who knows, maybe the arc will spawn into something as good as the original series.
Runaways #11
Dammit, I'm liking the series again. And while I'm not all that happy that Gert's probably going to be coming back, I'm more pleased at the prospect of something awful happening to Chase. At the end there, he's doubled over and no one seems to notice that his link to Old Lace is just about killing him. I put the book down with a smile and a delightful feeling that this was going to be fun and dramatic.
Wolverine: Weapon X #3
I stopped reading a couple pages in. They're armed with cancer bullets and have a healing factor. CANCER BULLETS. HEALING FACTOR. NO.
X-Men Forever #2
The title just has the feel of the old cartoons that I'm feeling nostalgic reading it. It's a fun callback with killing off Wolverine maybe. While I'm not really sure how Rogue recovered and what's brought her up and about so quickly, or what the heck Sabertooth was doing in there, I'm finding myself not looking into the details too much and reading it like I watched the cartoons.
Brave and the Bold: Static & Black Lightning
I picked up the book for Static and Static alone. And you know, that's probably the only reason I liked the book. Black Lightning wasn't all that interesting, but Static's like I remember him, a little smart mouth that's underestimated by the big leaguers and not put off by that. The change of heart toward Pierce at the end was pretty weird, though. Still, I'm hoping all these covers I'm seeing with Static lately mean a revival of the character.
Dead@17: Afterbirth #1
Two things first about the art. First, make your art sexier before you go trying to make everything sexy in it. Second, 300dpi for print. As for the story, I'm a little confused as to why a twenty and thirty year old are at summer camp, but it looks like this is going to continue in the usual formula of things get messed up, there's demon fighting in their panties, then someone dies at the end. Still, not a bad read.
Destroyer #3
That was needlessly bloody. And coming from me, that's saying something. So they find the fan service damsel in distress, he slits her wrists to give her a time limit and there's just a bloodbath. It's like thick mud how it splatters and coats. And stranger than that, the objective has now been accomplished in this issue, but there's two more left to go. I'm confused and mildly disturbed by the blood.
Groom Lake #3
Aw, I wanted to see Archie going around France screwing up everything! Instead, we get a lovely sky battle of strange proportions where we learn Archie is smart as well as flighty. Then they're in France, supposedly, but we never leave the ship throughout the whole comic so there's no way to know for sure.They convince Archie to go back to the base to save everything, but there's no need anymore because there's an invasion on the way so everything's going to be all right. In short, so long as you don't stop for questions, it's happy fun times.
Herogasm #2
If you're looking for the definition of pointlessly gratuitous, you found it.
Incognito #4
I do love Zack. He's delightful. He tries to bluff his way out and he's got good survival instinct that isn't clouded up by romantic entanglement or something like that. He's stuck and hates it, and when a way out presents itself, he runs after it and goes for the chance at freedom again. Now for the drugs to wear off again and everything should get really interesting.
X-Men Forever
I passed it over last week, but finally checked it out this week. It's very reminiscent of the old cartoon series and a lot of fun, but there's an awful lot of exposition happening and using Kitty to point out the things the reader should be looking out for. If Claremont can pull back and let the reader wonder for themselves after this, it should be an interesting title.
X-Men Origins: Gambit
It's certainly a pretty book and sheds light on a lot of Gambit's past, but I'm pretty sure I knew most of it all ready. But still, a pretty fun book and there are a few things that I did learn about the character.
Time for me to try out new things as well as some old ones. Yay?
Booster Gold #21
You know, I keep saying I am going to drop this but I keep not doing it. Now, it looks like something went different because the pacing is suddenly back to normal, the exposition has stopped being tormenting and there's actually a story that seems remotely interesting. So Booster needs to fix things by stealing his file from the Batcave now that Batman's dead so no one finds out about his influence on Batgirl's history. Granted, he tells anyway right off the bat and I learn that Nightwing is the new Batman. Then he's promptly killed off in the past. Should be interesting again.
Resurrection #1
It's actually the second series, but I've never heard of the series so I'm giving it a shot. Near as I can tell, there was an alien invasion that forced everyone underground 10 years ago. Now the "Bugs" are gone for no apparent reason and we follow a group of people who leave their bunker, one of which is Sara who wants to find her son. Half the cast proceeds to die in the book and I don't know who these people are but get the feeling I should care. Sara, however, can't figure out why no one will kill her. What?
Sherlock Holmes #1 & 2
SOmeone reccommended I read this one, so I finally picked it up. I have to say, the story is intriguing but I think I would prefer watching it to reading this. The Britishness of it in my head is fun, but they do talk an awful lot. As well they should as a Sherlock Holmes book, especially one where Holmes may be the guilty party (No, but a fun twist), but it's a little tiresome to read Watson's extra paragraph because he can't spit it out already. Still, the story is good.
The Unwritten #2
For those of you who don't remember, this is what issue 1 was about:
And now for a book comprised mostly of text, the second installment is wonderful. Tommy gets out of the hospital and goes out to find out if he's real or not. He knows a stunning amount about literature he's never read and finds someone that seems a little like the trench coat brigade from Books of Magic in that she gives him a taste of the magic and sends him away. Or is that Death? And when he goes away, we see the cute crazy girl again! And Tommy with the symbol on his hand, proving further that he's probably actually the character in the book despite his protests. Yay!
The Boys #31
You know, I don't know what to think of this one. Beat up the supes to keep them scared, move on to wardrobe change, cuteness with Hughie, and then they kill off Female. She fought back good, which is great and all, but she was the cute thing that killed things. She was my favourite and now she's gone before we get a chance to delve into her history or hear her talk or the reasons why she doesn't talk or anything. I was waiting for her to step out of the background and, now that she's gone...
While it's nice to see a permanent change to the lineup now, I just don't know. It did something to spice up the formula, at least? But dammit, couldn't you have killed Mother's Milk instead?
Chew #1
The main character can tell everything about his food when he eats it except for beets. The world is in the grips of a chicken ban. The FDA has jurisdiction over the police. It's so delightfully weird that I absolutely love it. He even eats a dead guy just to get the name of the other victims from his dead corpse. It's really quite a fun first issue.
Deadpool: Suicide Kings #3
It's okay. But dammit, he doesn't hear voices and goddamn- Okay, stopping there. It was okay.
Exiles #3
I finally read through the entire issue. First one in the series where I bothered to read the whole thing. It's still pretty text heavy, but at least they sort of solved the problem maybe before they went off to another world. Maybe. I should probably actually read the last two issues because I'm kind of confused.
Flash Gordon #5
For some reason I thought the series had ended. It's continuing in the tradition of too much text, this time with pointless character narration and I want to throttle the hell out of the writer. Actually, the editor, except I can't find the name of one on here. SO I leave you with a simple WOULD ALL OF YOU STOP OVER EXPLAINING EVERYTHING?!
Werewolves on the Moon : versus Vampires #1
It was too ridiculous to not pick up. So there are these werewolves that hopped on a shuttle because they wanted to go to the moon for some reason. And already on the moon in secret are these vampires, one of which is in love with the cynical moon cop. The werewolves fight the vampires. Hilarity ensues. Seriously, how much was anyone expecting with that title?
But really, I wasn't all that excited for the ceremony. Honestly, I probably wouldn't have missed it in the least if I didn't go since I've been done since August. It all seemed like a big formality. But, you know, I'm happier for having gone. Mostly because I missed the majority of the speeches in lieu of chatting with Josef, who I haven't seen in quite a while, and trying to signal other people around me to the people who wanted their attention over on the sidelines.
I also found out that pointy heels sink in the grass to the point where they get stuck in the grass and you have to take them off to pull them out, much to the amusement of the other parents. Not as many pictures as I was expecting, but dad was pretty sick and they needed to take him home.
So what will I do now with my degree? I'm not going to think too much about that right now. I have jobs to last me a few more months at least without worrying about my future. Though I am considering starting up a little studio for eclectic media forms, getting a little production experience under my belt, getting more of my writing done and produced, then moving the studio up to transmedia content production. But we'll see how we do with Final Snow before I start trying anything too crazy.
I'm going to need to rework how I'm getting these things done because the way I'm doing it now is wiping me out.
Get something published.
Slowly, slowly, slowly.
Win Nanowrimo.
Nope.
Write 10 short stories.
Just started another one today. So, finally.
Complete editing a novel.
I need to completely rewrite it. Not because it's terrible. Well, yes because the first draft is terrible, but also because the first draft seems to have been mostly deleted except for the first page. So without it to fall back on, a rewrite based on my paperback copy of the first draft.
Revise Scions.
Outlines. Dammit, a novel series is hard when you have timelines to work with and events and other weird things that you need to work in there and researching things and... well, it's not going so good as of novel #3 in the series.
Update Genetically Impaired weekly for 6 months.
I has my buffer back. Now to keep it.
Four Eyes #3
I love this book. I really do. Enrico has decided to join his father's work and go hunting the dragons. The other guys on the truck with him treat him like the child he is, taunting him and he keeps his cool and, despite it all, still seems to maintain this weird childlike aspect of himself. And, of course, there's the parts with the dragons. Oh god, the dragon hunting. Or rather, the bait that distracts the dragons who try not to die. And Enrico, poor thing doesn't look like he'll be alive much longer. Or maybe his father really is watching over him. Or maybe he's just going to be fed to the baby dragon that just hatched.
Yeah, I love this book.
The Great unknown #2
Earlier this week I made this:
Little did I know, I just missed it on the shelves last week. Whoops.
So we pick back up on Zach and we get some history. His professors were the ones who orchestrated the theft of his ideas and they are being sold in an auction online. He's also still running from the televised intervention, much to the confusion of the people running it. His love interest is a blip on my story radar and it ends with a great meeting of other people who have found him. They've had their ideas stolen too and Zach's a little too busy throwing up to join them just yet. DO I still love this book? YES. Just hope it updates a little more regular. That or I catch it on the shelves next time.
Ignition City #3
The story's a little more interesting now. I sort of remember it dragging a little last issue, but now we get a look at Ignition City politics and... well, honestly it's a lot of exposition again this issue. But once the exposition ends, Mary's figure out her father's killer and decides to go and visit another character who isn't her father's killer, we get a nice gun fight and Yuri proves to be most amusing despite being completely useless as a character.
Runaways #10
I was going to drop it, honestly. But I might as well give the new guy the benefit of the doubt because I did rather enjoy the last thing I read by him. Can't remember what it was, but I do remember enjoying it.
And goddammit, I enjoyed this one. Molly with the X-Men again was just a treat, mostly because I got to see more Wolverine babysitting moments, followed by Wolverine swearing like a sailor moments, followed by fight sequence followed by Molly threatening everyone. Oh, and the bonus story! Bonus story was great too! Goddammit, Yost.
Squadron Supreme #11
STOP NARRATING! Also, I'm royally not caring about anything that's happening, though I did get a good laugh out of that last page. Its just so incredibly ridiculous. Those poses, that catch phrase, it's just... well, it's enough to get me to one more issue maybe, if I remember next month. But after that, probably not.
The comic is a spin off from The Boys, but it seems to have all of the characters tangled up in it, making me wonder why it's got it's own title and it's not just integrated. Heck, it even has the bloody cover up story for the massacre, which hasn't been in the original comic yet. They're saying an alien threat has come, it killed the G-Men and they're going off to fight it. Really, they're going to Fuck Everything Island for a nice shag. (I've been reading/watching too much British stuff, sorry.)
And on the side, we have our leads, all of them on a seperate but connected mission. I mean, really. Why is this a side comic? Why aren't they just plunking the thing in the main title? It's not like they aren't fucking each other in droves during the exposition issues anyway.
Tek Jansen #5
I'll be honest. I lost interest in this one a very long time ago. There's no coherent storyline running through the thing, there's nothing new that the stories bring to the table and once you read one, they're all the same thing. Oh, and when you finish one side, you can flip it over and get more of the exact same thing. Maybe if there was a foil character in there it would have been better, but Colbert's character is a little overpowering. At least now I can say I have all of them?
Wolverine: Weapon X #2
And you're dropped. It wasn't that it was bad, but I can't remember the first issue. The second one makes me wonder what the first one was going to be leading into. Interesting part at the start with the woman looking for some information on Wolverine and a quip about how he's too exposed. Aha, I see what you did there Marvel. The rest of it is Wolverine doing something. Getting drunk, not actually drunk, then getting attacked by a bunch of guys who have energy claws and clearly have no chance against him. Bored. Will find something else.
Conversely, the Invincibles trade I picked up was great. Shame I'm not reviewing those right now.
Also, my novel's been kicking my ass. As such, here's my procrastination:
This new years resolution stuff is seriously starting to impact on my sleep. And I don't seem to be getting as much done as quickly as I'd hoped.
Get something published.
Where are my rejection letters? I've barely gotten any back! Are they telling each other to just ignore me? Only the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction has sent me anything back so far. And I think they're getting sick of me because this is the third one they've rejected.
Win Nanowrimo.
Nope.
Write 10 short stories.
So much failing.
Complete editing a novel.
I have stripped down chapter 1. And now, I need to put all of the explanation back in it because it makes absolutely no sense without explaining some of it. Although I have started to rename the characters and have decided to strip out Sue Island. That can be a little promotional bit of information. You know, if I ever get it published.
Also, dammit this is taking forever.
Revise Scions.
Working on the novel outlines now. I think it's going to end up being a trilogy. But for the moment, I need to look up redcaps again as well as make sure I point out how ridiculous fire is as an element. It's a bloody chemical reaction, which Gavin is certainly going to point out and be an irritating know it all about until it saves his ass.
Update Genetically Impaired weekly for 6 months.
My buffer! I am losing my buffer! I need to rebuild it now!
