Abbreviated new Comics Day

Astro City: The Dark Age # 3. Interesting book, yeah. I do wonder where it's going, although the AC continuity pretty much guarantees it won't be good. Enjoying the story, although the cop subplot doesn't quite ground it as well as most of the ordinary folks stories do. This was really one I'd have liked to have seen from the supers PoV.

Made me wanna buy T&J, though.

ASM #523: Nice story, and I like how the Hydra supervillains 'tactics' boiled down to "let's all attack him at once". The joke ("An obscene Clone Fall") was funny. The Bucky flashback was cool. Shame Bucky's still dead.

Supreme Power #18: Wow. 18 issues later, and it looks like the story is about to start. There goes that famous Straczynski Pacing. If he'd had this much leeway on TV, The Narn/Centauri war wouldn't have started until midway through season 18 of B5.

Desolation Jones #1: Dammit. I should have gotten issue #2 while I was there. This is really cool. Jones is a British secret agent with substance problems ("James Bond never urinated on himself, Mr. Jones") and is now living in LA doing detective work, where he's been hired to recover amateur porn produced by Hitler.

Spike: Some annoying Bullshit. Spike, teh gay vampire from Buffy, fights with a vengeance demon to save a poet. Thank God I have a wife who can enjoy this, because it's sure as hell proof that Peter David is only human. I still love his Spidey Vs the Commuter issue.

Serenity #3: Well, it ended better than it began, but thay may be because I was reading it while I was driving (don't DO that, kids!) The villains were kinda pathetic, but there was at least some closure. Book's departure still makes no sense. Ah, well. Pretty pictures.

Quick thought:

Bruce Campbell: Okay, he's a coolish guy from the sound of things, but, really, an actor? No. Look, if he wasn't childhood chums with Sam Raimi, he'd be parking cars for a living doing musical theatre on weekends.

Bubba Ho Tep was emotionally draining in the "Two hour mediocre Elvis Impression" sense. He did well with his books (My Life With Sam, vol 1 & 2), and the book tours were a great idea (he said, blood dripping from his bitten tongue) but he flatters himself by calling himself a B actor.

I'd like to see a good breakdown of actors by grade; I think we could get to F before too long.

Wisest thing I've ever heard anyone say: "People say they want to be actors. They don't want to be actors. They want to be movie stars."