A Sunday Review

TV this week:

• Doctor Who: "The Rings of Akhaten" - Not a lot of plot, but a lot of very interesting moments and build up. This had some character building that may become vital in the future, and some sweet moments with a young guest. I've got mixed feelings about it. Not my favorite, but not bad.


• Young Justice: "Depths" - Oh wow. This makes up for that other episode. I seriously considered not finishing this episode after what I was seeing, but wow... I'm glad I finished. Wow. Now I just want to see how this season concludes.
• Young Justice: "Satisfaction" - That's not what I was expecting... I'm amazed at how good this series got even as it was racing toward the end of its run.
• Young Justice: "Darkest" - This one is a double-ouch episode. Kaldur is truly frightening in so many ways. The massive destruction was yet another moment of shock. I just didn't see that one coming. Lots of twists and turns in this series.

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This week's movie was The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle. This movie falls into the "so bad it might be good" category, particularly in the beginning. It starts out so terribly cringe-worthy that I wanted to turn if off and never look again. But either I adjusted to it or it got better, probably a bit of both... because I managed to sit through until the end. This will never be on my list of favorite movies, and it's not something I would even recommend, but it's not too bad.

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Here are reviews of the DCBS comic books that I've gotten around to reading and reviewing, sorted by the original shipping date:

• Feb 20th
• Justice League #17 - I want to hate Geoff Johns for this story. I want to say, "No way. Vulko would never do that!" I want to deny it completely. However, I can't. The motive is correct, even pure. The nature of the whole thing is awful, yes, but I could see Vulko scheming desperately. And I could see him doing this. Ouch.
• Justice League of America #1 - Ug. I don't suppose this is going to be much good. I'll get it for a bit anyway. Nu52 Waller is so wrong it's not even amusing.
• Green Lantern #17 - Eh, not horrible.
• Green Lantern Corps #17 - The torture of Guy Gardner. Ok. Not really my thing.
• Green Lantern: New Guardians #17 - And... the torture of Kyle. Lovely. Is this whole second crossover done yet?
• JSA Liberty Files: The Whistling Skill #3 - I was beginning to think I'd never understand this book at all, but as the flashbacks start to fill in, I think I'm beginning to understand the rest. Three more issues to try to figure it out.
• Batman Beyond Unlimited #13 - That first story was very nearly incomprehensible. The other two were ok.
• Young Justice #25 - And that's the end. Huh.
• Fables #126 - I'm not liking this Brandish guy at all. Don't think I'm supposed to.


• Feb 27th
• Aquaman #17 - Having Aquaman uneasy with his subjects definitely harkens back to the Silver Age books. I don't like Murk, or what he represents. This book just got very interesting. I hope others are finding it so, as well.
• Arrow #4 - Three different stories, three different levels of quality. None of them are bad, per se, but none of them really made me want to watch the show any more than I currently do.
• Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time #2 - Ooooh, I liked this one. I want more like this. Heck, more second Doctor adventures, period. Good stuff.
• Doctor Who V3 #6 - Um, I was good right up until the whole reignite the sun thing. I'm not really sure what the diamond or the Doctor had to do with that.
• MacGyver: Fugitive Gaunlet #5 - While the story isn't bad, the artwork could have used some work. Again, the bit in the back about the origin of the show is better than the comic itself.
• Peanuts V2 #6 - Peppermint Patty just doesn't look right in a dress.
• Steed and Mrs Peel #5 - Nice set up, with a decent bit of strange Avenger action.

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Fortean Times #290 (August 2012). I suppose the cover would have more impact if I were a Londoner. Or even British. As is, I found it slightly dull. My husband is a big Olympics fan, however, so I was intrigued by the article. It turns out to be a fairly comprehensive overview of creatures found in the Thames River and nearby waterways. Not bad.

Another article is about the original Olympic games, focusing on the aspects of the games modern folks might find most surprising, including routine disfigurement in sports like boxing and fatalities.

A third article is about Lazarus Syndrome, people who are clinically dead for some amount of time and yet somehow revive and continue life. The article cites dozens of examples and is part one of a two-part look at people who come back from the dead.

Good stuff in Strangedays, as usual, although the bit about cannibals was a bit too much for me. Yikes. The 2012 Watch is an Olympic special focusing on conspiracy theories about the games, which did not come true. Since we're all still here. And so is London.

Science is about space exploration and how private enterprise has started to take over. It compares the future of space exploitation to the beginning of the internet and how those who jumped in early generally became very rich. Hmmmm. Ghostwatch seems to be about ghosts that range a bit further than a single building. Mythconceptions asks about the origin of superglue.

Alien Zoo is about Tasmanian wolves, winged cats and black tigers. I have to feel sorry for the winged cats. The wings are usually either clumps of matted fur or a rare feline skin condition. No idea if it hurts or not, but it doesn't look comfortable. Classical Corner is about soldiers and war, mostly soldiers and how they are discussed in ancient writings. Fortean Traveller visits the Czech Republic to retrace the steps of John Dee.

Archaeology's main piece this month is about acoustics and various studies done on them. It mentions the vaguely Stonehenge linked tests done in my corner of the world at the Maryhill Stongehenge replica (which is made of concrete, which has completely different acoustical properties and thus isn't a really good test) along with a few other studies that were poorly reported by the media and don't really prove much one way or another. A very short second piece talks about obsidian knives found in central American that suggest human sacrifice prior to the time of the Aztecs.

Konspiracy Korner is about cover-ups, sometimes lasting decades, of events that are well enough documented that anyone who looks can find the truth. Sounds like certain drone attacks that the US currently is denying. The UFO Files is all about the nature of memory, and something more people should read. Blasts from the Past is about fairies, airships and space travel. The Fortean Bureau of Investigation visits a conference on unknown animals held in Belgium.

The Forum starts with an article on ascribing motives to alien events and then goes on with an article about "dark" fairy tales, particularly Snow White and the evil queen. The Reviews section again has fantastic reviews of many books, movies and games, good and bad. A mystery is solved in the letters pages. And the It Happened To Me bit had one gloriously spooky story, probably terrifying more due to its lack of detail than anything else.

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A Sunday Review

This week's movie was Oz: The Great and Powerful in 3-D. Yeah, Eric wanted to see it in the theater, and I actually thought it would be fine to go. I do NOT do well at movies because I usually end up having difficulty with the chairs in the theater and have to move around. This can make me a very frustrating person to sit next to. But I managed to sit mostly still through this entire movie. If I had realized ahead of time it was 130 minutes, I might have gone in worried. But I didn't, and I would have estimated the movie at about a half hour less than that if I had to guess. This is a good thing, by the way. I was clearly interested enough in the movie to not notice the usual pain of sitting in those horrid chairs.

Right. The movie itself was simply incredible visually. The Kansas scenes were boxed and in black and white, which led to some very interesting 3-D effects during the sequence. The visuals once the Wizard gets to Oz were also very nicely done, at times even overwhelming. This is not a bad thing. I like breathtaking movies if I'm going to bother going to a theater. I felt the 3-D was used effectively throughout the movie.

If the movie fell down anywhere it was in the score. The music just didn't live up to what I was watching, and the loss was felt. A great score is not obvious but adds much to a film. This score didn't intrude, but didn't seem to add much. The Munchkin song was cute, but overall the music seemed lacking, something I never thought I would ever write about an Elfman-scored film.

There were a lot of very good moments and excellent details, tiny things that added up to make an overall positive. I liked seeing a "free" winged monkey (read the books and you'll understand what I mean). I found the cemetery to be a jarring presence in Oz, only because I know a lot about the land of Oz now. Franco was perfect as a womanizing fraud, but I do have a little difficulty imagining him becoming the wizard of the books. And I loved the Tinkers, although there seemed to me to be rather a lot of them compared to the books.

The story was... straightforward. It was a fairly basic plot with just a handful of nice twists to make it not too plain and simple. Without the visuals and extra details the plot would have been too weak. As it was, it only just served. I managed to avoid most spoilers for the movie, except for the biggie about the first person the Wizard meets in Oz. I think that detracted a little from the movie for me. I hate spoilers (I didn't even look at the above poster until after I saw the movie).

In conclusion, it was a good movie. Not a great movie. But a good movie. Nice and solid in most ways, with other parts making up for what was lacking. Fun to watch, worth the trip for the 3-D, but it's not going to become a classic beloved of generations. Which, let's face it, was a legacy it stood little chance of living up to anyway.

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Here are reviews of the DCBS comic books that I've gotten around to reading and reviewing, sorted by the original shipping date:

• Jan 30th
• Green Lantern Corps Annual #1 - Yay, it's over! Wait, what? Another crossover. *sigh*
• Arrow #3 - Three good little shorts in this one. I particularly like the vigilante-hunters in the second piece.
• Batman Beyond Unlimited #12 - I like the Superman tale, not bad. The Micron origin was ok. Batman Beyond was surprisingly good for such a cliche superhero notion.
• Superman Family Adventures #9 - Periwinkle Kryptonite? That's... fabulous!
• Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time #1 - I'm not fond of the artwork, but this is a good start with a lot of fun touches (including in the art) and both a solid main plot and a good start on the overall arc.
• MacGyver: Fugitive Gauntlet #4 - This is a great little book, but don't miss the text article in the back that describes how the show came about. I've been enjoying it almost as much as the book itself.

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Fortean Times #287 (June 2012). I'm not a big fan of the Titanic and the colossal stupidity involved in its sinking. The cover story for this issue is about premonitions of the sinking, particularly the 1898 novel Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson that seems to describe the sinking in its major points quite effectively, right down to not having enough lifeboats and hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic. However, a closer look at both fiction and reality at the time shows that these were fairly normal concerns during a race for bigger and faster ships. In any case, the article gathers a large number reported premonitions and reports them, along with some sidebars of other forteana related to the Titanic.

Strangedays had its moments in this issue. Mostly silly moments, but moments nonetheless. The life on Venus bit was just pathetically sad. I liked the ghost on the pier photo, although it doesn't look even slightly paranormal it's got a great story to go with it. And the wedding ring found on the carrot was a nice little tale as well, particularly with the picture.

There's a special report of a Malaysian panic over the greasy man, Orang Minyak. A neat touch was the report that some neighbors who hadn't gotten along or even known each other due to political tensions had joined forces against the supernatural being and were now friendly with each other. And all it took was a common enemy and a mass panic. Shades of Watchman.

The 2012 Watch covers Richard C Hoagland (of Face-on-Mars fame) and his goofy physics brewed up for the apocalypse. The theory involves "torsion fields" and the galactic equator, so not something to think about too hard.

Ghostwatch has two cases, one a famous ghost of a orange seller, actress and mistress to King Charles II and the other a case of a groping ghost attacking a woman. Konspiracy Korner is about the possibility that the US government may have the means of giving people cancer. Well, it's a tad more complicated than that, but that's the gist of the conspiracy theory.

Archaeology covers a strange appearance of a dinosaur bone where it shouldn't have been, an amazing discovery of Bronze Age artifacts in a fen and changes in the estimations of when early humans began cooking their food. Classical Corner is about strange tales of Constantinople. Alien Zoo is about giant spiders (one meter across), hybrid sharks and the pink-head duck of Asia.

Lots of little stuff in the UFO files and the casebook has an odd "sighting" of what people thought was a perfectly normal plane, just a bit out of place. Combined with some other odd occurrences, it was enough to catch the attention of the author and earn a write-up. The Illustrated Police News tells of the Ghost of Shropshire, thought to be Sarah Duckett.

The Fortean Bureau of Investigation checks out efforts to stamp out belief in the paranormal in India with laws against practicing black magic or performing miracles for financial gain. The laws are being pushed by a rationalist movement that dismisses the need for spirituality or religion.

The second part of an article about whether or not humans are wired to believe in God comes to a conclusion I wasn't exactly expecting from it. Strange, but interesting. Another article is about Dion Fortune and what made her into a witch that fought for Britain during WWII in supposed psychic battles against Nazi magicians. It's a good tale, but hard to credit as anything but a tale.

Random Dictionary is about UFO Crash Retrievals (part 2) and has some good thoughts on such tales and why they are so important to people who believe UFOs are alien spacecraft. Personally, I lean toward believing most of them are experimental craft that crashed, nothing more or less sinister. As for UFO, I tend to subscribe to the "earth lights" theories, although I don't know enough of the science to be certain.

The Forum has a fun little article about the dark side of cricket, and not in the Douglas Adams sense but a collection of real world incidents. Along the same theme, a second article discusses curiosities of cricketing. An illustrated book about charnel houses gets a rare 10 rating in the reviews, I still have no desire to read or even see it. Good letters, good reviews, a decent issue.

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A Sunday Review

Here are reviews of the DCBS comic books that I've gotten around to reading and reviewing, sorted by the original shipping date:

• Dec 19th
• Green Lantern #15 - So, if these virus-things started on Earth, which is what seemed to happen when they first appeared, why isn't Earth a waste yet? The books are showing other planets wasted by them, you would think Earth would be first.
• Green Lantern: New Guardians #15 - Not liking what's happening there. Is this story almost over yet?
• JSA Liberty Files: The Whistling Skill #1 - What was THAT supposed to be about?
• Young Justice #23 - Interesting bit with M'Gann and the poor replacement for Aqualad. This book continues to suffer from a distinct lack of Aqualad.
• Fables #124 - All Oz issue. Looks like it was all originally intended as backup stories. Fun. The narrator is really quite amusing.
• Star Trek TNG/Doctor Who: Assimilation #8 - And so the Doctor saves the day with a little help from Worf and Rory. Only, he left the Borg with some ideas...
• MacGyver: Fugitive Gaunlet #3 - The storytelling continues to improve as the series goes on. And I'm liking the story. There are moments that are so very MacGyver. Lots of fun.
• Dec 26th
• Justice League #15 - VULKO!!! YAY!!! *ahem* Well, I hate crossovers, and this is no exception. Sure, I like seeing a high profile Aquaman story, but I don't like these multi-part stories across books.
• Aquaman #15 - Not quite the final splash I was expecting. On the other hand, it makes perfect sense that somebody would finally take the relationship between Aquaman and Ocean Master and make something more from it. Liking this.
• Other - DCBS had shipping issues with this series, sending #3 before #2 and then sending #5 before #4. I waited and read them in order, and I'm not sure what week they originally shipped to everyone else.
• Love and Capes: What to Expect #4 - Love the cover. I also enjoy the fact that Oriana goes to Abby for business advice. I also love how the interns terrorize the vandals. We need some interns out here for the same purpose.
• Love and Capes: What to Expect #5 - Again, love the cover even if it gives away the main plot point. I also love how Abby goes coffee-crazy once in Mark's body. This is just a great book. Who would have thought a situational comedy based on the daily lives of superheroes could be so solid?

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Agatha Christie this week was Sleeping Murder (1976). A young bride from New Zealand buys a home in England only to have disturbing visions of a murder in the house. I keep pushing off reading the last few Christie books in the vain hope that I can continue to enjoy being surprised for years to come. This book wasn't the best of her works, but it had some good moments. The always wonderful Miss Marple talked wonderful sense into the protagonist, which was nice. And while it was probably not a bad idea to have just let the situation go, I can understand why the girl wanted to figure it out. Yes, I was surprised, and yes, it fit perfectly once I read the reveal. Not much more to find now, just some short stories. Farewell to Christie.

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Fortean Times #281 (December 2011). Wow, what a cover! The article is about the artist of the cover, who apparently drew some pretty intense artwork about biblical catastrophe. I admit I found myself wanting to see more of John Martin's apocalyptic artwork than the tiny samples reproduced in the magazine. Neat stuff.

Strangedays has a few more follow-ups, always appreciated. There's a good little piece on how unlikely it is that Marco Polo actually traveled to China. There's also a bit about the Norwegian killer's claim that he was a Knight Templar. There's a piece on military dogs and their attachment to their handlers.

The Science article is about flat-earthers and experiments meant to prove that the world is flat. Archaeology talks about tunnels. Classical Corner tackles Shakespeare from another angle, and compares him with other playwrights. Ghostwatch is about violent ghosts. There are blue spiders in Alien Zoo, euww. UFO Files are varied this month.

There's an article about poltergeists that like to set fires, with the usual skepticism noting that the handwriting of the polt in the case investigated bears an definite resemblance to that of a child living in the home.

Another article covers a terrifying case of mass hysteria in Sri Lanka. Mostly terrifying because the place was a powder keg that needed only an excuse to turn into violence, in this case violent mobs hunting down anyone who resembled the feared monsters.

An article in the Forum provides a possible source for various "LSD in the water" rumors over the years. Apparently someone actually was testing the effect of LSD on fish, with the notion of getting rid of invasive species. It's complicated. But an article on the subject was actually published in 1964 in Sports Illustrated, which could be a source for the later rumors.

Reviews and letters great as usual, but no books added to my wish list. Good issue.

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A Sunday Review

Recommendations are always welcome. Pop a note into the comments if you can think of a movie/TV show/book/comic you think I might enjoy.

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This week's movie was Miracle (2004). The movie is about the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team that pulled off a major upset and took down the Soviet Union. The movie focuses on Herb Brooks, the coach of the team, and how he motivated them to become a team and to win against the odds. While it covers many of the players, the real focus is on the training... intense training that forged the group into a single unit. Despite an almost hands-off approach at times, the movie had its moments. When the team walks onto the ice for the game I felt chills up and down. The Miracle on Ice was more than just a hockey game, and this is a completely accurate portrayal of the time. The movie put the game into the context of what was happening in the world at the time, including the eventual boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. And the portrayal of the era was spookily accurate. Heck, I had flashbacks to my youth seeing the hairstyles alone. Definitely worth watching.

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Here are reviews of the DCBS comic books that I've gotten around to reading and reviewing, sorted by the original shipping date:

• Nov 28th
• Aquaman #14 - Wow, the tale of an older king of Atlantis is one that, frankly, I really loved. Add in Aquaman's brother, whose face isn't really seen and it gets even more cool. Add in Vulko and we have a tale I want to reread a couple more times.
• Batman Beyond Unlimited #10 - Movement in all three stories, but still jolting to read them in a row. This is a fun anthology.
• Superman Family Adventures #7 - Awesome Aquaman action figure attack! Wahoo!
• MacGyver: Fugitive Gaunlet #2 - The storytelling in the artwork is still the weakness of this book, although it seems to have improved a little from the last issue.
• Peanuts V2 #4 - While the new stories aren't as good as the originals mostly, they aren't bad at all. In fact they are pretty good overall.
• Arrow #1 - I've been watching the show with Eric, sort of. Not paying too much attention to it despite the lovely yummy villain. This comic is more of the same.
• Ozopolis #3 - Fantastic artwork and a creative way of looking at the world of Oz makes this book worth hunting down.
• DC Nation #2 - Well, it's got some good stuff and some other stuff. There's something frenetic about the whole book that makes me feel like I'm reading too slow or something.
• Dec 5th
• Doctor Who V3 #3 - Very very cool cliffhanger. Having Amy wander around alone seems a bit dangerous, but I think that's Rory's point.
• Earth 2 #7 - There's Michael! I'm not sure I like this Hawkgirl, but then I never liked the Hawks much. Eh, still wait and see on this book.
• World's Finest #7 - The existence of these two in the nuDCU just serve to remind me that we aren't in the real DCU anymore.
• Smallville Season 11 #8 - Reading through the episode capsules in the back of the book I was reminded why I stopped watching the show. The comic is ok, but I'm definitely lukewarm on it.
• Dec 12th
• Green Lantern Corps #15 - Never liked Guy in the first place, can't feel much pity for his situation now.
• Green Lantern: The Animated Series #9 - Don't cross the beams!
• Saucer Country #10 - That's a sort of conclusion, I guess. I'm not entirely sure where it's going but we'll keep getting it to see where it leads.
• Age of Bronze #32 - Oh, I missed this book. I hope Eric can get another issue out soon. And I wish the digital versions were available for PC or Android so I could indulge.
• Spongebob Comics #15 - More of the same. No Mermaid Man. Not the best issue ever.
• Masks #1 - This appeared in my DCBS shipment without me ordering it. A nice first issue by Dynamite that brings together some pulp heroes. Art is Alex Ross and fantastic. Story is decent as well. It was nice of them to provide it.

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My library book this week was The Alpine Advocate by Mary Daheim. Recommended by Granny Gjovaag, I really enjoyed this book. Even more now that I work at a small newspaper (though not as small as the Advocate!). The mystery is all put together nicely so the pieces fit. The cast of characters is bewildering, as the main character herself notes at times, but we have guides through it in the form of timely commentary from other characters. I did not figure out the real culprit, but came close to a "duh" when it was revealed, which is the sign of a pretty decent mystery novel. The setting, not so far from my old stomping grounds in a place that was real once, makes it even more appealing to me. Definitely recommended, and I'll be seeking out the other books in the series.

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Fortean Times #280 (November 2011). Ah, it's the old Shakespeare question on the cover. I wasn't hoping for much from the article, but it covers the various sides of the debate very nicely and gives the author's own view, which I tend to agree with as well, that Shakespeare was a real guy who "wrote" the plays in a collaborative environment with other writers and actors... thus meaning that there is no single author to them, but rather a cast of many anonymous folks who contributed. Your mileage may vary, of course.

The usual weirdness in Strangedays didn't throw out anything super special, though it seems strange to me that no one noticed the Pantheon's light show before. The infamous underwater Millenium Falcon is also reported in this issue's Strangedays. Science had a piece on GPS jamming that's a little frightening, if you think through the implications. Archaeology had a depressing article on the destruction of ancient earthworks along with a possible solution to a mystery about a pharaoh. Classical Corner is about references to ancient music. Ghostwatch continues with divining rods and ends with a nice warning about trusting in such things.

The UFO section is double the usual size with quite a bit of fun. Another British Ministry of Defense cache of documents had been released and an article sums up the information in them. The more regular UFO feature has sightings that feature people being overwhelmed by what might be very unusual weather events, but still so unusual they are reported as UFO encounters.

There's a neat article on the Eureka machine of 1845, that created Latin verse with the turn of a crank. There's also another biblical piece on Jewish prophets and Forteana. It's actually pretty impressive how many of the events in the Old Testament could be called Fortean. And, again, I love these sort of articles that examine ancient texts in a different way. There's an article in the Forum on the 27 Club, which is morbid to say the least.

The reviews include a very rare zero rating for a book about UFOs that's described as being a "one-sided presentation of questionable evidence". None of the other books made my reading list, but it's actually delightful to read a scathing review now and again. Good letters as is often the case. Overall, another good read.

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Here are reviews of the DCBS comic books that I've gotten around to reading and reviewing, sorted by the original shipping date:

• Sep 26th
• Aquaman #0 - Yet another version of Aquaman's origin. Yet another version of Orm's origin. Still, at least we know where we stand on them.
• Superman Family Adventures #5 - That's a different take on Parasite. And I like how they get rid of Lex.
• Star Trek TNG/Doctor Who: Assimilation #5 - Some nice work with Amy there at the end. I really like some of the artwork in this, but I wish it was better at telling the story instead of just being pretty.
• Bart Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror #18 - Is it just me or were two of the stories even more incomprehensible than usual for this anthology? Eh.
• Spongebob Comics #12 - There's a sweet tribute to Ernest Borgnine, voice of Mermaid Man, inside the back cover. I was touched.
• Steed and Mrs Peel Ongoing #1 - I'm kind of certain this must be a dream of some sort, but I'm not sure how or why.
• Oct 3rd
• Doctor Who V3 #1 - Nicely done, double-cliffhanger although one less cliff-hanging than the other. Looking forward to the next one.
• Earth 2 #5 - This world seems to be pulling together now in my mind. I was a little surprised at the consultant.
• World's Finest #5 - This issue has a double-flashback to show what the gals are doing in their "spare time" when they aren't hanging out together. Fun.
• Green Lantern #13 - I really like Aquaman in that final splash. Yum. The story, eh, about what I expected once I read the last issue. I want something more.
• Smallville Season 11 #6 - Not really fond of the Smallville universe's Batman. Oh well, I'm not the target audience anyway, I don't think.
• Batman/Scooby Doo Halloween Fest #1 - Two fun little tales. I enjoyed it. And the price was right.
• Muppets #4 - Winter. Winter is fine. I like that Piggy accepted the gift.
• Road to Oz #2 - Now THAT'S a cool design for Polychrome. Wow.
• Oct 10th
• Green Lantern Corps #13 - Oans as bad guys is really annoying.
• Green Lantern: The Animated Series #7 - This is a better Green Lantern universe, but it's still not really my cuppa.
• MacGyver: Fugitive Gaunlet #1 - The character is right enough, but the artwork is a little pathetic in storytelling and MacGyver doesn't really look like MacGyver. Still, I'll give it time. Hopefully the storytelling will improve.
• Hoax Hunters #4 - Still confusing, still jumping around a little. I want some answers from the book. Not getting any yet. But it's keeping me reading, so I guess it's working.
• Spongebob Comics #13 - There's a kind of cool Mermaid Man story in there, with typical Spongebobiness. Still, neat to see Bissette's Mermaid Man.

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My Kindle book this week was The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold. I've been wanting to read this for awhile, it was the only in print work by Bujold I hadn't read. Once I started, I didn't want to finish it because I wanted it to last longer. But I couldn't stop myself from finishing it in one night. If you like Bujold's work, you will like this. I'll put it in my reread list because I've found that virtually every work by Bujold can be read repeatedly and still enjoyed.

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