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Summer Reading: Yes, I read a poem once, try not to faint
Thursday, May 27, 2010

I’ve been in this haze like state of existence since I got home. It’s equal parts exhaustion and culture shock. The shock being I’m no longer in an enormous bustling urban hive where there are coffee shops on every block, I can take public transportation everywhere and my food haunts are open till 2 am, but I’m in the country. The country, where the nearest cafe is 40 miles away, I have to drive everywhere, and in Fresno everything promptly closes at 11 pm. Also I’m pretty sure I got called a hippie the other day, however it's Fresno, it amuses me instead of offends.

That said, something came in the mail today that jump started my poor city deprived brain-


Jayne the Turtle and Mini Buddha were quite excited as well.

I haven’t read it all yet, however I did go outside, start my summer tanning process and go over the first couple of pages. Love it already! I’m one of those Browncoats that doesn’t have the other behind the scene books (I have the comics in singles, novels and the TLB collector’s hardback) so I’m probably more jazzed than most. But they have story boards and concept art in this beast, so I’m pleased as punch. Also, as everyone else probably knows, a couple of the script writers came back to do short stories for this book. I had the pleasure of reading three of them before my book came, and I gotta say, they’re excellent. One by Jane Epenson reads like a story that should have been an episode, while the other two by Jose Molina and Brett Matthews are great little character introspective pieces. Molina’s I feel really shows how Mal views the crew as individuals, as well as how Mal sees himself.

That said, I have some reading to do. Lots of reading to do actually. This year I have slowly hoarded books to read for summer, and have accumulated a healthy stack of art books, graphic novels and a year’s subscription to The Runaways, Deadpool and Spidey to go through. Also, I’ll be looking into World War Z, Feed and a few other novels Brother has picked up as well as some comics yet to come out. Namely Wash Out, Jen Van Meter's Blackcat arc, and The Guild comics I have yet to pick up.

I leave you with some lovely parting shots of the book and my stack of accumulated materials (excluding my Marvel monthlies), co-starring Jayne the Turtle. He's a camera whore, so apologies.










COMMENTS

Tuesday, June 01, 2010 6:02 AM

ASORTAFAIRYTALE


Your turtle is super cute.


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