Hey, Folks!
Nothing says “Thursday” more than grey, lifeless skies married to a sleet storm. I’m trying to cheer things up here in the store today with some Beatles music (starting with Let it Be), but, hoo-boy…I am already ready to go home…lol. But none of that crazy talk! It’s time to get to work and get all my Thursday stuff done so that I can justify taking a day off tomorrow!
Did I mention that I set my face on fire last weekend? I went out to the old pasture to use the burn barrel and get rid of all of the paper cartons, Prime shipping containers, old mail, and such that tends to gather rather quickly at the apartment. Thank goodness we live in the country so that we have the option of burning it rather than having to throw it all away. Well, Hill has often times told me that I need to check the wind before heading out to get it done as it could be dangerous to fart around with it otherwise. Well, I DID check the wind…I looked right at the big flag we have over the pond and there was absolutely no movement whatsoever. Of course, I freely admit that I didn’t look at the little metal windmill that sits next to the pond and it was apparently spinning like a frigging top. I started the fire in the barrel easily enough and, while it was sputtering away at low range, a powerful gust of wind came by and caused a huge spout of flame to explode from the burn barrel and then blew the whole thing into my face. And before some smarty pants asks why I was standing so close to it I should say that I was a good 12” from the damn thing. I coughed a bit and jumped back letting loose with a hearty “Well, THAT was rude.” before continuing my burning mission. I completed my task and headed back inside where I immediately started to get ready to take a shower and change my clothes. Whenever you do burn barrel duties you always have to clean up afterward because you become infused with the stink of smoke. I really can’t stand smelling like smoke especially since I stopped smoking. Well, that was when I got the strong scent of burning hairs and my eyes opened wide in panic as I made a dash for the bathroom. I immediately started brushing my beard out and looked down to find the sink full of ashes. It was at this point I noticed that my hair was scorched as well, although not as badly as my beard. I realized that it was quite lucky I had no beard or hair product in that day because I would have ended up looking like Ghost Rider running around the pasture with my head on fire! That would have spooked the horses for sure!
Luckily, Hill already had an appointment for the next day with our barber to get his hair did, do I tagged along and he was able to fix everything up. He soothed me by telling me it was only “surface damage”, but I lost a good inch off of the beard that I have been working on for two years, but it does grow back pretty quickly so I wasn’t too concerned. I mean, I didn’t, like, cry or anything. Much. Stupid fire…
I have decided that I simply do not read enough new comics anymore. I read plenty of old comics and I tend to have as storyline or two that I keep on from the new titles (mostly X-Stuff), but everything else had been falling by the wayside. I’m sure you’ve heard me go on about stuff like this in the past, but I must say that after reading comics on a weekly basis since around 1983-1984 I hit these moments where I am completely over reading the bulk of comics period. Part of it has to do with the sheer volume of material out every week/month, but a lot of it has to do with time and a certain amount of, shall we say, story duplication as the years wind on. Anyway, I decided to do something about it.
So I grabbed one of every comic that was on the rack this week and took them home Tuesday night and attempted to read them. ALL of them. I’m afraid that I was only partially successful and managed to get through about half of them. I didn’t bother to bring home extra issues or anything. I just basically started reading the series where I found them and figuring that I have read enough comics to figure what was going on or if I didn’t figure out what was going on then I could always scare up the issues I missed to catch up on the story.
Most of the comics I read were perfectly fine, if average, stories. I must admit that I particularly liked Jason Aaron’s Action Comics and his current Bizarro story arc, although I generally prefer Bizarro stories that contain a little more Silver Age style fun in them. I also liked James Tynion’s Deviant comic over at Image. I had skimmed a few issues before this because the covers looked intriguing, but sitting down and reading a whole issue made me want to go back and read the whole thing. I also enjoyed the hell out of the current X-Titles wrapped up in the Fall of X storyline, particularly the new issue of Fall of the House of X where we get to see Polaris hit the Orchis satellite with a bunch of Brood…lol.
I won’t get into he couple of books that I didn’t care for at all, mostly because I have to wrap this up so that I can get the Subscription Form up and running, but I was pleasantly surprised at how many I did end up enjoying. I will try to keep y’all updated as I continue this trek and we will see how long it takes me to actually get to the point where I ca read them all every week!
I’m trying desperately to get through more of the Jersey collection as I have been discussing for the last two weeks and hopefully I will get to it later this afternoon. Last week I just got behind on all of my FOC work and didn’t get it to it. Keep your eyes peeled. I’m also going to be making another offer on more of the BG books soon and there will be more of the juicy Silver Age as well as a couple of Golden Age books up for sale soon. Stay tuned!
Thanks for tuning in and I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Eddie