How Soon is Now?

A half-hour of boxing on the Wii has left my upper body very tired and sore.  I think this is going to turn out to be a good thing.

Two play-by-post games have suddenly arisen - Deadlands: Hell on Earth and Unhallowed Metropolis.  Idea mining will commence.

I'm currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's The Wild Shore.  It's good, the kind of post-apoc I go for.  And I like the idea that the Big Oops was deliberately localized - the world isn't in ruins out past a set line.

Happy Halloween, everybody!

Voices Carry

So, Halloween.  It's just about over, and was a pretty quiet day.

I don't think I did this last week, so I'll roll two weeks' comic purchases into a single posting.

Daredevil #101:  Wheels within wheels.  A gang war brewing between Mister Fear's goons and those working for The Hood.  I am hooked on Brubaker's work on this title, and I'm being made to understand that his writing over on Captain America is even better.  *sigh*  I am not picking up another monthly title, darnit.

Teen Titans #52:  Holy cow, but the new creative team on this one is developing a great trend towards last-page single-panel cliffhangers.  Last issue, Tim Drake showed us that he's one of the DCU's most spectacular hardasses.  This time around, it's a battlesuited future Lex Luthor and a small army of Titans from the future.  Seeing Connor as the future Superman, even though he's a villain of the piece, is pretty darn cool.

Daredevil Annual #1:  So, a former supervillain crimelord is coming to Matt for help, and is becoming Hell's Kitchen's own private Robin Hood by way of the Punisher.  I can go for this.

Iron Man #23:  Tony's coming apart.  Doc Samson orders him out of the armor, and to take some time away from running SHIELD.  Tony's investigation into the deaths of Initiative operatives in Kansas continues.  There is a strong hint at the end that we're going to see him in some older armor Real Soon Now.  Also - The Mandarin and Temugin.  Gah.  No good can come of this.

Justice Society of America #10:  I liked, very much, the inclusion of art from Kingdom Come in this issue.  And the revelation from KC's Superman that the reason that the supers of his world went off the deep end was because the JSA disbanded, leaving the supers without their moral compass.  I like that.  The panel of Batman listening to news stories of KC Superman and taking a long look at the kryptonite ring bodes ill.