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My brother's been counting the hours I have left before going back to school for three days already. It is mortifying. I'm going out with some friends tonight, and truth to be told, I'm not all that excited about it, but they've been telling me I'm becoming a hermit (from hermits united, maybe? *grin*) for a long time, so.
I probably wouldn't mind going back to school that much if it weren't for my crazy-assed schedule: I get out of there two days at five and two days at seven and I even class on Saturday. BOO.
Anyway, I'm all caught up with Ex Machina by now and my God, but it was extraordinary. Honestly, it's very raw, and very violent, but it's so well told, and it has amazing, flawed characters (I'm especially fond of Mayor Hundred and Bradbury), and I love the healthy mix of political intrigue with insane psycopath villians in the true fashion of a superhero comic. Wonderful, wonderful comic; I do wish more people would first think of these kind of comics instead of the crap that's out there right now - there's so much more to this medium that scantily clad ladies with gigantic breasts (and don't even get me started in how the majority of comics nowadays are written for sex crazed male teenagers) and capes.
In other stuff, here's a picture of the choux pastries I baked yesterday:
Haha, I didn't have time to take the picture this morning so by the time I was ready for it my mom had already given out the prettiest ones to my grandma, so I was left with the squashed ones, haha.
I probably wouldn't mind going back to school that much if it weren't for my crazy-assed schedule: I get out of there two days at five and two days at seven and I even class on Saturday. BOO.
Anyway, I'm all caught up with Ex Machina by now and my God, but it was extraordinary. Honestly, it's very raw, and very violent, but it's so well told, and it has amazing, flawed characters (I'm especially fond of Mayor Hundred and Bradbury), and I love the healthy mix of political intrigue with insane psycopath villians in the true fashion of a superhero comic. Wonderful, wonderful comic; I do wish more people would first think of these kind of comics instead of the crap that's out there right now - there's so much more to this medium that scantily clad ladies with gigantic breasts (and don't even get me started in how the majority of comics nowadays are written for sex crazed male teenagers) and capes.
In other stuff, here's a picture of the choux pastries I baked yesterday:
Haha, I didn't have time to take the picture this morning so by the time I was ready for it my mom had already given out the prettiest ones to my grandma, so I was left with the squashed ones, haha.
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Pretty pretty pastries!
I like a lot of superhero characters, but the quality of titles depends on a certain time period, a certain writer, etc. And while I know that the nature of the superhero comic encourages soap-opera style stories, at one time it was too soapy and I was like WHY DON'T YOU JUST FISTFIGHT ALREADY. gaah.
I don't mind scantily-clad costumes if it fits the nature of the character (Emma Frost from X-men is the best example). But most of the time it doesn't fit the character, and it's like WHAT?
For the superhero genre, I'd recommend a lot of the newer Daredevil (Bendis-era and beyond) and anything by Darwyn Cooke (The New Frontier made me cry.)
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