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Sep. 11th, 2019 08:37 pm1. The latest, Powers of X #4 by Jonathan Hickman and RB Silva...I can't make heads or tails of, to be honest. There's a lot of world-building in this comic, a lot of ret-conning, and a lot of it is annoying teasers or riddles. Which were fun at first, but are beginning to grate a bit -- just to tell me the story, don't make me have to work to figure it out -- I have a full time job, I'm not a bored media darling with nothing better to do but figure out comic books.
That said -- the graphic art in this is amazingly well done. It's worth looking at for the graphics alone. Also there's some interesting ideas embedded in it. And some sly jokes. But, I feel like I'm reading vague spoilers for a television serial and I just want to get to the story.
( spoilers...the good, the bad, and the X-men )
2. My body and I are not friends at the moment. Digestive, Gastrointestinal issues, aplenty. Also my legs and back are bugging me. Making it tough to sleep.
My father, according to mother, took a tumble, but he's doing fine. Nothing serious.
She felt the need to explain to me why she prefers to discuss this with my brother, who is less emotional about these things. And doesn't get upset. I finally said, I don't need to know, I get it, look at it this way, at least you have two kids to discuss it with.
I have no clue what my life would have been like as an only child.
3. Working my way through A Duke in Disquise by Cat Sebastian which is enjoyable. I'm half in love with the hero -- who has epileptic seizures, and is an art engraver. He does engravings for various printed publications. This takes place during the Regency period. The hero, Ash, is in love with Verity, a printer and publisher. She publishes the Register and the Ladies Register. And they've just had to send her brother to the States for printing sedition pamphlets to keep him out of prison or worse. Somewhere along the line, Ash, who lives with them, discovers that he is the son of a Duke and the heir to a Dukedom. One problem -- he doesn't want it. At all. If he gets it -- he risks losing Verity, who he's loved forever, and up until now they maintained a friendship denying their mutual affection. Along with the rest of the life he currently has and enjoys. But alas, duty calls -- since his uncle tried to have him killed as a boy and had most likely caused his father's death -- so he must do what he can to help his Aunt unseat him.
That's the set up.
I told this to my mother and she whined that I'd told her half the plot of the book.
(This is a woman who spoils television series and books for me on a daily basis. I called her on it, and said I rarely did...and she admitted I was right. But hey, she's my mother so she can do what she pleases in this regard.)
Anyhow it's interesting, and different. So I got the first one -- The Marquess Unmasked, about a cross-dressing house maid and a Marquess.
That said -- the graphic art in this is amazingly well done. It's worth looking at for the graphics alone. Also there's some interesting ideas embedded in it. And some sly jokes. But, I feel like I'm reading vague spoilers for a television serial and I just want to get to the story.
( spoilers...the good, the bad, and the X-men )
2. My body and I are not friends at the moment. Digestive, Gastrointestinal issues, aplenty. Also my legs and back are bugging me. Making it tough to sleep.
My father, according to mother, took a tumble, but he's doing fine. Nothing serious.
She felt the need to explain to me why she prefers to discuss this with my brother, who is less emotional about these things. And doesn't get upset. I finally said, I don't need to know, I get it, look at it this way, at least you have two kids to discuss it with.
I have no clue what my life would have been like as an only child.
3. Working my way through A Duke in Disquise by Cat Sebastian which is enjoyable. I'm half in love with the hero -- who has epileptic seizures, and is an art engraver. He does engravings for various printed publications. This takes place during the Regency period. The hero, Ash, is in love with Verity, a printer and publisher. She publishes the Register and the Ladies Register. And they've just had to send her brother to the States for printing sedition pamphlets to keep him out of prison or worse. Somewhere along the line, Ash, who lives with them, discovers that he is the son of a Duke and the heir to a Dukedom. One problem -- he doesn't want it. At all. If he gets it -- he risks losing Verity, who he's loved forever, and up until now they maintained a friendship denying their mutual affection. Along with the rest of the life he currently has and enjoys. But alas, duty calls -- since his uncle tried to have him killed as a boy and had most likely caused his father's death -- so he must do what he can to help his Aunt unseat him.
That's the set up.
I told this to my mother and she whined that I'd told her half the plot of the book.
(This is a woman who spoils television series and books for me on a daily basis. I called her on it, and said I rarely did...and she admitted I was right. But hey, she's my mother so she can do what she pleases in this regard.)
Anyhow it's interesting, and different. So I got the first one -- The Marquess Unmasked, about a cross-dressing house maid and a Marquess.