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Caught up on the final weekend of the G1 by watching the main events for the last three day (Okada/Tanahashi, Omega/Naito & Omega/Goto). Really great stuff.

Tart - A kickstarted comic from what I can gather from the google. At five issues it stands incomplete, as it seems they wanted to make an ongoing. As a three issue mini (in which nothing is really explained), it would have worked well. One Month To Live - Death of Captain Marvel, but without heart and shit art. Started off strong and then nosedived fast. Grimm Fairy Tales Presents The Little Mermaid - The issues felt short and it felt lacking overall. Comics: 142 (17)Graphic Novels: 7Trade Paperbacks: 8 (41)

Lady Killer - Standard assassin/spy story but with some excellent art. And what I appreciated the most were the bright and vibrant colors. The Motherless Oven - To quote the back of the book "The weather clock said knife o'clock. So I chained dad up in the shed." I don't get this book. It took 70 or so pages before I kinda understood the world this takes place in. And it took another 70 or so pages to get to a very unsatisfying/confusing ending. Comics: 127 (17)Graphic Novels: 7Trade Paperbacks: 8 (41)

The wonders of buying boxes of comics at yard sales. X-Men: Colossus: Bloodline - Story was bad but that art is something... horrible. Just horrible. Insane Clown Posse - They were in the box. Yep. Insane Clown Posse: Hallowicked - A bad 90s comic, to be sure, but so much better those other books. Insane Clown Posse: Halls Of Illusion - The song of the same name in comic form. And surprisingly, it works really well. Other random Chaos! books (Pandemonium, Homicide - Tears of the Dead, Static X, The Mummy - Valley of the Gods, The Undead, Vigilante 8 - 2nd Offense) - Bad times. Bedlam - An undead/immortal? cowboy fighting demons. I can dig. This thing went thru like four issues worth of plot in a single issue. Best of the Chaos books in this box. Black Canary (07 Mini) - I liked this more than I thought I would having zero context. Solid. Henchgirl - Lighthearted and cartoony. I like it. The Cat - Yeesh. Spent two issues being sexist and two issues doing nothing. Hellcat - Average Patsy Walker: Hellcat - Trying way too hard. I really did not like this at all. Pilgrim's Progress - Hey a religion book. Nope. Spider-Man vs. Vampires - More or less an issue of classic MTU with Blade. Good times. The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop - The retconning of Bishop's past to explain his heel turn. And that is exactly what it felt like. A retcon. Just waiting for the next one when something else needs to be explained. X-Force - Sex and Violence - So pretty. So very pretty. Bomb Queen - All of it. Comics: 127 (17)Graphic Novels: 6Trade Paperbacks: 7 (36)

I tried to see it. For some reason my theater only has 1 showing of it not in 3D. One. And it is at like 10:15 PM. Not gonna happen.

He kinda looks Bizarro-y to me. First thing that popped into my head.

Week #1 of the new new NEW new new NEW NEW (new?) era of WWE. And it is a bit much. Take quality out of it (as I'd say this has been a pretty good week all around). Forget about that. It is Thursday and I've watched, rounding a bit, 10 hours over four days. I just finished NXT and the burnout is real. And I still have the Cruiserweight Classic to go. I know I don't have, nor do I think they expect me to watch everything. Kinda glad Lucha Underground is on a break and TNA is, well, TNA.

Where is his brown leather jacket with the sleeves rolled up?

Last night on TNA This made me laugh so much.

Beyond! - A wanna be Secret Wars. I think part of the problem for me is lack of context. I only know about half the characters, and the half I do know behave in ways I do not understand. Fantastic Four #545-550 - A somewhat follow up to some things that happened in Beyond! And while I dropped in randomly, I was able to pick up everything I needed very quickly. And Sue being a complete badass is something I fully support. X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever - I loved this, until the last issue. That last issue was a complete cop-out. And I think the last page actively pissed me off. Harley Quinn and Power Girl - Didn't know this was a continuation going in, which did annoy. This was horrible. Probably would have stopped if I had anything else to read while at the mechanic. 'Humor' never landed, so much filler and the 4th wall garbage got old fast. Comics: 46 (17)Graphic Novels: 6Trade Paperbacks: 7 (36)

Batman '66 Meets the Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Not as fun as the non-crossover stuff. I had never heard of Man From U.N.C.L.E. until the movie came out and this did little to help with that. Zodiac Starforce - So, Power Rangers/Captain Planet based around a group of high school girls. A pretty good second story. Too bad that this was the first story. Broken Moon - I want to like this. I really do. And the idea is so ripe with possibilities. None are realized. This comes off like a ten year old telling you the story of their action figure battle than a real story. Comics: 23 (17)Graphic Novels: 6Trade Paperbacks: 7 (36)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - Generally speaking, if you liked/disliked the first one, this will do nothing to change your opinion. It was decent mindless entertainment for a couple hours.

Random question for the randomness thread. Having listened to Robbie Knievel on the Stone Cold Podcast, I'm hoping to get a bit of context. I get that Evel Knievel was big. I struggle understanding the why? Was it just a case of a cool thing on 1 of 3 channels + nifty toys? I feel like there has to be more to it than that.

I never watched ECW when it was a thing. I wasn't a fan of wrestling until late 99, so much of the ECW charm is lost on me. That said, very few things in wrestling make me happier than Masato Tanaka vs. Mike Awesome. I mean look at that guy. How can you not love him?

Just gonna put this here.

What did you think of Apocalypse? Because a fair amount of my problems with the film center around him.

Today marks my last day at work. I've worked at this store for, as facebook noted this morning, 12 years almost to the day. It has been a somewhat surreal experience to see a place I've spent so much time in slowly be taken down. Others have been having a very hard time with it. People have left along the way (I stayed because it felt like I should) and many tears have been shed. I used my normal method of dealing with the crying people and ignored/avoided them. Being my last day, I figured I would not be able to do so and they would make a bigger deal of it than I would. I was wrong. I was hardly acknowledged as I left. No tears. No hugs. No goodbyes. I got nothing. And I don't know how I feel about it.

Went and watched this today. And it was not very good. Maybe that is a bit harsh, as I did enjoy parts, but I felt overall a bit bored.

The Rundown - Watched this on TV while house sitting. Below average action movie that is largely forgotten. Looking back, I sometimes forget just how huge the Rock is these days. He looks downright human sized in this movie. Well, as human sized as Rock can be.

Are we just talking reselling at much, much higher prices, or am I missing something?

Is there a big issue with scalpers/resellers? I have only purchased sports tickets secondhand and no one really cares. (Well, unless you wear the wrong shirt in certain seats. But that was stupid nonsense.)

Cry-Baby, Rocky Horror Picture Show & Purple Rain - Just going to lump these together because my thoughts are pretty much the same for all of them. Are they great? No. They are probably all bad movies. But damn, they are fun. Purple Rain is my best of the bunch (with the best soundtrack and Morris Day), but I love them all.

Avengers West Coast #102 - Why? Because the line at the drive-thru was that long and this was in my car. While I have read very little Avengers (and less West Coast), this was not completely lost on me. Granted, I knew that West Coast lead into Force Works, so maybe that helped. That said, every Coast of Avengers come of as complete assholes. It is an all talk final issue that does not entice me to pick up the next series at all. When New Mutants #100 ended, it was a 'oh shit' moment that made me need to get X-Force #1. This had Wonder Man look sad. Sign me up.

Countdown - The LAW guys are reviewing it this week and I was in the mood for stupid, so I gave it a chance. So, blah blah blah, cop, yadda yadda, own rules, blah blah, badge & gun, blah blah, saves the day. Cliched to all hell, but watchable, in a background noise on TNT kinda way. Side note: The trailers made it seem like this was set entirely backstage at a WWE show (which they showed some clips of, and since they cannot help themselves, edited in a way that is comically false) . That was about 7 minutes within the first 20. Oh, and I think WWE is missing the boat on these things. I want a Sin Cara vs. the Vampire Space Mummies from Mars. Okay, I just want El Santo movies. Love those things.

Day 3 of 50 straight days of working 10+ hours days. I have yet to adjust to this new schedule. The joys of lame duck employment, a vastly stupid sense of loyalty and theoretical extra bag of money. That said, why the fuck did I think this was a good idea?