Read This: Jeri Smith-Ready's Wicked Game
Oct 27
I’m trying to come up with the right words to tell you just how awesome Jeri Smith-Ready’s Wicked Game is. I’m also trying to ensure that these words don’t make me sound like a wild-eyed, slobbering fangirl, because my brain has clamped onto this book with the kind of heightened fervor it usually reserves for stuff like re-analyzing old episodes of Buffy and dissecting continuity issues in the Marvel U. It’s refusing to read anything else and wants to install one of those internet-y countdown clocks in order to tick off the milliseconds ’til the sequel arrives (May 2009!! Put it in your iPhone!). Oh, brain. You do love to get obsessed.
Heroes Pop Quiz #4
Oct 13
Apparently, 97 percent of superpowers are executed via holding out one’s hand, going “watch this,” and making some kewl special effect appear. Apparently, this never ceases to be fascinating to those of us still watching the show. Oh, but APPARENTLY, maybe it does, because we — the royal we! The whiny fandom we! — are kind of bored and hanging on for dear life! FINE. Time for the goddamn Heroes Pop Quiz.
SPOILERS within.
Sky Rockets in Flight! Afternoon, er, Twilight!
Oct 08Let’s all talk about the new Twilight poster. Or I’ll talk about it and you guys can chime in if you want. No pressure.
From Stephenie Meyer’s website.
Now I am of the opinion that Edward is kind of creepy (rather than SO ROMANTIC), but aren’t they supposed to make him look, well…dreamy? He mostly just appears way too eager to take a big, fat chomp out of his flowing tressed hors d’oeuvre. Bella, meanwhile, could not look more disinterested. “Whatever,” she seems to be saying. “I need to go deep condition my hair six more times and buy some denim and flannel, because that is WHAT PEOPLE WEAR in the Pacific Northwest.”
It’s not that hard to make a vampire look all broody and sexy. Right, Angel?
I Mangled My Witchblade
Oct 07
I mangled my Witchblade. It’s the “deluxe” collected edition of that first set of issues and it’s been with me since college. I’ll spare you the gory details, but basically, I was engaged in a bout of feverish closet cleaning, and said closet has some rather treacherous sliding doors and Sara Pezzini’s tentacle-clad ass was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s mostly visible at the top of a certain sub-section of the book, a sad crumpling that begins on the page where Sara’s “working out,” ie sexy-boxing with her boobs flying all over the place (it’s important to work out the boobs when you’re a Top Cow heroine, OK?).
Still. I’m sad.
Heroes Pop Quiz #3
Oct 06It’s Monday! It’s 10:05! Twitter’s down! The world is crazy! But that’s not gonna stop us from rolling out yet another exciting edition of…the Heroes Pop Quiz!
SPOILERS within.
