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shadowkatAmazing Sunset. Granted, it is painfully early at 5:14 pm or thereabouts. But still. Outside my windows - it looks like the sky is streaked in blue, gray, pink, red, and orange, all blended, while in the foreground the black silhouettes of buildings, with a few street lights.
Day was not a complete loss. I watched and deleted more of the tv shows on my DVR. I've got 24 more to go, before I add a couple over the next week. Sooner or later, I need to watch the Life, Fringe, and Heroes episodes or delete them. Had brunch with Wales. And corresponded on the internet, which manages to grab a huge junk of my time. An annoyingly huge junk of time.
Of the tv shows? The best this week were...Grey's Anatomy (which has improved over last season), Mad Men (Peggy's speech to Pete and to the Reverand were the highlights), and
Supernatural (great conversation about Angels between Sam and Dean). Everything else is a bit of a blur. Although, I did like the last scene of this week's House.
On the comic book front? I agree with the comment I read on my flist that Spike has become a lot like John Constantine in the Hellblazer series. They even look alike. Long black jacket. Blond hair. Cigarette. Sarcastic wit. So much so, I'm wondering if I should start picking up John Constantine comics, except I don't like the art as much and I'm not crazy about the writing. Picky on both. I tend to like a very specific type of comic book art, which apparently not everyone is agreement with me on. Urru fits it, as did Jai Le, and Tim Sale.
Georges Jeanty - has grown on me. As has Nick Runge - although I find Runge's action scenes cringeworthy and the perspective just seems off. His facial expressions, however, are quite good. Not a fan of Tim Kane or a good majority of the underground comics artists - who are rough and subscribe to the Crumb school. I like hyper-realism, not to be confused with photo-realism, with a touch of impressionism. Old-school anime fan, so this may have a lot to do with it. Other than that, there really isn't much to comment on. It was a tight four issue series. It explained why Angel found him in the Beverly Hills Playboy Mansion playing vampire playboy with Illyria. It also explained how he and Connor hooked up and why. Gave me everything I wanted. And was in the end, more or less what I expected and predicted. Brian Lynch apparently has the same opinion and view of the character that I do, which may explain why I love his Spike books as much as I do. We agree on who the character is and what motivates him. That said, I think he does a better job with Spike than with Angel. I may be wrong, but I suspect Lynch isn't as fond of Angel as he is of Spike or at the very least not as comfortable.
Book front? I think I'll get reinterested in reading fiction once this crazy election is over with. And I stop feeling the need to obsessively read about it and the economy.
Day was not a complete loss. I watched and deleted more of the tv shows on my DVR. I've got 24 more to go, before I add a couple over the next week. Sooner or later, I need to watch the Life, Fringe, and Heroes episodes or delete them. Had brunch with Wales. And corresponded on the internet, which manages to grab a huge junk of my time. An annoyingly huge junk of time.
Of the tv shows? The best this week were...Grey's Anatomy (which has improved over last season), Mad Men (Peggy's speech to Pete and to the Reverand were the highlights), and
Supernatural (great conversation about Angels between Sam and Dean). Everything else is a bit of a blur. Although, I did like the last scene of this week's House.
On the comic book front? I agree with the comment I read on my flist that Spike has become a lot like John Constantine in the Hellblazer series. They even look alike. Long black jacket. Blond hair. Cigarette. Sarcastic wit. So much so, I'm wondering if I should start picking up John Constantine comics, except I don't like the art as much and I'm not crazy about the writing. Picky on both. I tend to like a very specific type of comic book art, which apparently not everyone is agreement with me on. Urru fits it, as did Jai Le, and Tim Sale.
Georges Jeanty - has grown on me. As has Nick Runge - although I find Runge's action scenes cringeworthy and the perspective just seems off. His facial expressions, however, are quite good. Not a fan of Tim Kane or a good majority of the underground comics artists - who are rough and subscribe to the Crumb school. I like hyper-realism, not to be confused with photo-realism, with a touch of impressionism. Old-school anime fan, so this may have a lot to do with it. Other than that, there really isn't much to comment on. It was a tight four issue series. It explained why Angel found him in the Beverly Hills Playboy Mansion playing vampire playboy with Illyria. It also explained how he and Connor hooked up and why. Gave me everything I wanted. And was in the end, more or less what I expected and predicted. Brian Lynch apparently has the same opinion and view of the character that I do, which may explain why I love his Spike books as much as I do. We agree on who the character is and what motivates him. That said, I think he does a better job with Spike than with Angel. I may be wrong, but I suspect Lynch isn't as fond of Angel as he is of Spike or at the very least not as comfortable.
Book front? I think I'll get reinterested in reading fiction once this crazy election is over with. And I stop feeling the need to obsessively read about it and the economy.
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Date: 2008-11-02 11:21 pm (UTC)Like you, I loved The Spike: AtF series, and I agree that Brian Lynch really understands Spike's voice.... I actually think he writes Angel well too, but Angel is just never going to be as funny (except when he is Angelus). Angel will always take himself and his mission very seriously, which I think kind of hampers Lynch's style a bit (but Lynch still does a great job of touching my heart... I actually care more about Angel, & his feelings, in the comic than I ever did in the TV show).
I've been rereading some Terry Pratchett in order to relax, but I did just finish his latest book: Nation which is not set in the Discworld, it is actually a unique book for TP, set in our world (well, an alternate universe which is VERY similar to our world... not really a fantasy world, but not exactly as ours unfolded historically). I think you would be impressed by it. I thought it was something special!
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Date: 2008-11-03 01:49 am (UTC)Prachett likes to comment on his stories...and that may be my problem. It's the same issue I have with Pushing Daisies, the external commentary. While at times it is laugh out loud funny, at other times, it takes me out of the story and once out, my attention drifts off to other things, making the story more difficult for me to follow.
Again, potentially a mood thing.
Regarding Angel? The series did at times do a good job of poking fun at the character and his "mission". In fact, I don't think the writers (the PTB) took the mission and Angel as seriously as Angel did, which was sort of the joke of the series. It worked and didn't work for me - partly because I'm not overly fond of jokes that are at the expense of a person or a character. I much prefer the character making fun of the situation or himself, than an outside party making fun of him. Buffy's humor was often at the situation or Buffy making fun of herself or her mission. Angel's was everyone else making fun of Angel and his mission, but Angel.