Spongy...

While talking to my manager at work today, I casually mentioned that I had watched "SpongeBob Squarepants" this morning. Immediately, a customer browsing the curriculum books asked me which episode I'd seen, and what I thought of it. This older gentleman then went on to enthuse about the show for a couple of minutes, telling me about his favorite bits (he agreed with me that the show was "stupid" in a good way, he said it makes a lot of sense to 4-7 year olds). When I explained that I wanted to see a Mermaid Man episode, he said I'd have plenty of chances: The show is on three times a day.

Glub! Three times? Sure enough, getting home today (after a stop at the comic shop, hi Paige and Carol!) I checked the listings. It's on twice more tonight, and I've got a timer set to warn me when the next showing is about to start.

I'm about to overdose on SpongeBob, all in hopes of seeing a parody of my favorite character.

So, the next question, should I bother reviewing them? I did this morning's reviews entirely on a lark. If I'm going to try to watch the show consistently for a few days, should I also try to write my little rapid reviews? Or should I let them rest? I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

In other news, less spongily, Comics Continuum has posted Dark Horse's books for February. Only two stood out. I'm vaguely interested in the trade of Fort!: Prophet of the Unexplained. I would like to read some reviews of the mini, I guess, before ordering it. The other book is, of course, Usagi Yojimbo #64, which is firmly on my pull list. Usagi stands as much chance of being removed from my pull as Aquaman does (maybe even less).

Also non-spongily enough, today was new comics day. Diamond didn't use the holiday as an excuse for once! I'm a little surprised. Waiting in my pull box were JSA #42, Green Lantern: Evil's Might #3, Green Lantern #156, Spectre #23, and the oversized JLA: Secret Origins special. I also pulled another book out of one of the store's preview packages, but I'll wait to review it until it actually comes out (there were actually three books in the preview packages that I could have snagged, but I only asked if I could take one). Rapid reviews for the rest should happen fairly soon, I'm in a reading mood tonight, even if I do plan on watching TV.

Another piece of news I just read about, on Newsarama, is that December issues of Wildstorm books will include a one-page Astro City story. I just checked Previews mag, I don't buy any Wildstorm. I need to figure out which book I'll buy to get the Astro City tale...

A recent thread on the official DC Aquaman Message Board reminded me of the quiz-from-heck I wrote about Aquaman a couple of years back. I still think it's one of my best efforts, so much so that I reposted the quiz in the thread about it. If I had to do it again, the questions would probably be even harder. Here's the first three questions from the Quiz:

SUNNY'S AQUAMAN QUIZ

SECTION ONE: THE STORY OF AQUAMAN

1) What surfacer island nation destroyed Poseidonis and Tritonis with the help of Ocean Master and coral creatures?

2) Who was Aquaman's father in the Silver Age? What was his profession?

3) Who was Aquaman's first recurring villain?

Feel free to try to answer, or even to tell me that I was nuts to think that anyone could... but I'll tell you, the winner of the contest got 28.5 of the 30 questions right. The quiz was divided into five sections, all but the first with five questions. I tried to spread the questions and the answers over Aquaman's entire history, which certainly made it harder for people who didn't know about Aquaman in the Golden Age. However, I think every question was answered on my website somewhere, a fact that I pointed out a couple of times during the contest.

The contest was run at the request of Sunny Lee, an artist who, at that time, had just done the art for the Aquaboy/Lagoon Man Sins of Youth one-shot. The prize was a piece of original artwork by Sunny.

Timer is ringing... I'm off to watch TV!