Fellow Walks Into a Psychiatrist

[tracker7]

Based on the character and story ideas we batted around on Tuesday night, I think this upcoming Star Wars game is going to be a good time.  I abandoned the Jedi aspect of my character idea - probably for the best, as two of the other three PCs are Force-users.  The Clone Wars is going to feed my lightsaber-swinging need for a while, I guess.

Wednesday night's Spycraft game almost didn't come together, but I'm quite glad that it did.  We ended the session with the two soldiers inside an office building under siege by 15 Russian mobsters, while the three other agents watched more-or-less helplessly.  The entire team is about to learn the cleansing power of high explosives, I think.

Justice Society of America is getting close to the end of the Gog/KC-Superman story arc, and it's been a pretty good run, I think.  There have been some off-putting moments, but they're few.  And I've got some bad feelings about where this is all going to go, particularly based on the "And evil shall inherit the Earth" poster from a while back.

I picked up Secret Invasion #8, having gotten a decent feel for the rest of the series and unwilling to wait for the trades to see the whole thing.  There were a few surprises, and I do see where the griping has come from.  I'm along for the Dark Reign ride, at least in the Invincible Iron Man and War Machine titles - and if Fraction's work so far is any indication, "World's Most Wanted" will be very enjoyable.

Planning to spend a good chunk of tomorrow in libraries.  I need to study up on submarines.  Maybe meeting with Mom&Dad for dinner.

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[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

I did like the Knauf run better on re-read. I think I'm too old to really enjoy 24 pages at a time anymore.

I blame Jeph Loeb more for civil war - that was kinda his idea. Millar gave it form, but Loeb was the one swinging his fist wanting to see heroes fighting heroes. *yawn* Millar made the mistake of porting over Ultimates!Tony (and Cap too, I think), and it didn't work. I think there were some forced editorial things going on there too, and it left a bitter taste in his mouth. I know he didn't want anything to do with SI, which is fine, because instead he came up with the future stuff that's now going on in Fantastic Four and Wolverine to kill the time.

It took me three issues and some spoilers to finally say I would read the Old Man Logan stuff (to forgive him for civil war, etc.), but I'm so glad I did. It's so much fun.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

The Knaufs gave me some terrific superhero technothriller espionage during their run - I didn't know that that was exactly what I was wanting to read until they showed it to me.

I haven't read Old Man Logan, but the solicits and Newsarama stuff make me want to. Maybe in trade, maybe I'll just scoop up the issues in one pass.

[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

I've only got/read the first three issues of execute program. Haven't read the end of it yet - keep trying...