The Man Himself pointed it out before I got a chance but Dr Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog reminded me of Skullcrusher Mountain and The Future Soon quite a bit. Regardless Whedon really nailed it with the musical adventure here. Today is your last chance to catch the fun for free to enjoy it while you have the chance.
While Final Crisis‘ first issue was a bit disappointing the appearance of DC’s new weekly series Trinity was a welcome surprise. Out of the gate it is already better than both 52 and the abysmal Countdown to Final Crisis. The title refers to DC’s big three: Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. It also plays with the religious like mythology that surrounds and ties together those three characters. It isn’t a perfect series by any means but a solid creative team of Mark Bagely (Ultimate Spider-man) and Kurt Busiek(too many to name) keep the series from the sprawl and sporadic narrative that made 52 drag and ruined Countdown. Like both of the previously weeklies it is tied strongly with the history and unified mythology of the DC Universe. New DC fans might not like that but I imagine comic fans of all types will find something to like in the series.
To aid the newbie to DC, one not quite familiar with the lesser known faces of the DCU, one of the writers over at Newsarama is doing an annotation feature to exaplain/point out interesting facts about the characters and events in the story. Check out the series for a fun read and stop by the annotation entries for the first three issues:
Annotations for Trinity issue #1
Something called Library Wars sounds totally awesome to me!
I did read and finish Butcher’s Small Favor (dammit I want to add that ‘u’ so bad!) so expect some comments on that soon. I’ve been meaning to post on the JoCo concert from Wednesday night, but have yet been able to sift through all the awesome. Also, since I’m more than halfway though all of David Weber’s Honor Harrington books I figure I should post a little on that and a related post on series fiction. Marvel’s Secret Invasion started this week and I have some stuff to say on that as well (I promise I won’t bitch about Spiderman).
Also, my ‘Currents Reads’ will change soon; so that those books I’m totally not reading anymore are gone.
So folks, keep your eyes on the skies.
OK, I’ve migrated may older blogger stuff to wordpress! Yay! Most of my recent blogs were on mysapce (boo!), but I’ve moved a number (the newest) over here. I’m waaaaaaay to lazy to go back and tag them with useful stuff so deal with it. Anyhoo, I’m hoping that wordpress (and my new fondness for xhtml and css) will aide me in keeping this thing (relatively) up to date, but we’ll see. Anyhoo, should have an actual post within the next day or so.
