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My day off from snow days yesterday
Feb. 9th, 2010 09:38 amThanks to having no electricity for two and a half days due to SNOWMAGEDDON, I passed the time drinking and reading the following by candlelight:
1.) HELLBOY: EMERALD HELL, by Tom Piccirilli, which was the first Hellboy story I've ever liked. This was a Henchgirl recommendation, but I was hesitant. I've always found Hellboy in the comics and films to be a character of great potential in stories that were always pretty but kinda forgettable and paper-thin. But this novel was the first truly engaging Hellboy story I've read, with his character nailed beautifully throughout. I kinda wish we'd see Mignola illustrate it, but then we'd lose Piccirilli's wonderful atmosphere.
2.) Fantagraphics' POPEYE, vol. 2 and 3. So far, the stories aren't as knock-me-down brilliant as the rougher stuff in the first volume, but it's still consistently great, and I have high hopes for the much-hyped fourth volume.
After we finally got electricity yesterday morning, I celebrated by showering and going out to drink and see THE IMGANINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS and AVATAR. When it comes to films that are purely about the spectacle over story, give me PARNASSUS any day. Ugh, I hadn't wanted to walk out of a film in years, and only the obligation gained by paying fourteen frickin' dollars made me sit through AVATAR.
Now I'm off to help unpack tomorrow's comic shipment, hopefully getting back before the second wave of SNOWMAGEDDON. They're now saying ten to twenty more inches. Wheeeeee? Look, man, just let me have electricity so I can write, that's all I ask (and anyone who makes a crack about how pens and paper don't need electricity gets a stern look from a frustrated writer with creative constipation). Maybe I should print out a hard copy of my work just in case.
1.) HELLBOY: EMERALD HELL, by Tom Piccirilli, which was the first Hellboy story I've ever liked. This was a Henchgirl recommendation, but I was hesitant. I've always found Hellboy in the comics and films to be a character of great potential in stories that were always pretty but kinda forgettable and paper-thin. But this novel was the first truly engaging Hellboy story I've read, with his character nailed beautifully throughout. I kinda wish we'd see Mignola illustrate it, but then we'd lose Piccirilli's wonderful atmosphere.
2.) Fantagraphics' POPEYE, vol. 2 and 3. So far, the stories aren't as knock-me-down brilliant as the rougher stuff in the first volume, but it's still consistently great, and I have high hopes for the much-hyped fourth volume.
After we finally got electricity yesterday morning, I celebrated by showering and going out to drink and see THE IMGANINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS and AVATAR. When it comes to films that are purely about the spectacle over story, give me PARNASSUS any day. Ugh, I hadn't wanted to walk out of a film in years, and only the obligation gained by paying fourteen frickin' dollars made me sit through AVATAR.
Now I'm off to help unpack tomorrow's comic shipment, hopefully getting back before the second wave of SNOWMAGEDDON. They're now saying ten to twenty more inches. Wheeeeee? Look, man, just let me have electricity so I can write, that's all I ask (and anyone who makes a crack about how pens and paper don't need electricity gets a stern look from a frustrated writer with creative constipation). Maybe I should print out a hard copy of my work just in case.
