Crap

Well I lost yet again this week....How am I supposed to know that Leftwitch was going to break his ankle? Oh well as it sits I'm still in the playoff hunt. Need to win this week though.

Thanksgiving wasn't to great. The whole family was sick and my throat still feels like it is two sizes to big for my neck, anyway on to some reviews and some more crap later.

DAMPYR #6 LAMIAH- Still loving these, not sure if I'm getting used to the dialog or if this issue just translated better but I didn't notice it this time around. It's your classic two villain story but they pull it off nicely, this story was more about Telsa than Harlen but I have no problems with that. Ill keep buying these as long as they are translating them.

Having some troubles starting V for Vendetta, But ill dive into it soon.


Fantasy Football
Comic Books

Oh it burns

No I don't have VD, I just lost in Fantasy Football by playing all the wrong people. But its alright the only games that count are the three comming up before playoffs. I HAVE to win these to stay in the playoff hunt.

Now on to showtime....Reviews.

Garth Ennis' 303- This was horrible. At the end I cant believe I bought it and read it, its been some time since I have been this disappointed in a book. The ending was rushed. This whole last issue seemed empty and souless. This will make me lerry of buying anything Ennis in the near future.

Marvel Monsters: Where Monsters Dwell- This is the last issue of the "Marvel Monsters" series and it doesn't disappoint. I liked it, again like the rest of them its just good old monster fun. Although the first story is by far the best one. Overall this was a great series from Marvel and it made me buy there comics witch I usually don't.

Revelations #3- I really cant get enough of this comic. From the writing to the art it is just a total package comic. I really cant say enough good things about this. Its moving along at a pretty good pace as to keep me interested but not feel rough. The only problem I had with this issue (albeit a small one) is there is a car seen that left me a bit confused and I had to re-read it a couple of times. But all in all it was great and I will keep buying this as long as they are making it.

Giant Monster #1- Not sure why but this comic made me chuckle. Not sure if it was intended to be funny, but it was. I liked it solely for Nat Jones' art. The writing is a straight forward "Monster grows big and destroys stuff". So you can imagine that it shows off Nat Jones' art really well. I preorder #2 so ill finish this out. Nothing really ground breaking on this. I have a feeling that this is going to end up similar to Fused, but we will see.

I got two more things left to read and then my next shipment should come in. Will post more later.

Fantasy Football
Comic Books

So about last night.....

I finally got the furnace fixed last night...whoooohooo. Now everything is fix around the house....For now, I'm sure I just cursed myself.

Bowled last night and I think I pretty much hit my average of 161. But I closed out the second game with a turkey and I rolled a 201 for my last game. I know that just shows I sucked it up for the second game. But we took two games and total from the team that was in fifth place (we are in fourth), so it was a big night.

I'm hear at work and it sucks the large meat whistle, but since I had to spend money on the furnace.....I kinda need some more scratch.

Big fantasy football game this week. I'm playing the only other 5-5 team this week so I could feasibly end up on the winning side this week. But the next three weeks will be the most important because they are the last division games for this year. If the season ended today I would still get a playoff berth.

Here is what my lineup looks like for this week,

Drew Bledsoe
Stephen Davis (tough match up at Chicago...but what else can i do?)
Willis McGahee
Plaxico Burress
Keyshawn Johnson
Lee Evans (Kinda scared about this play, but I gotta take some chances)
Ben Watson (Again scary play, but i think L.J. may be hurt and McNabb isn't playing)
Adam Vinatieri
Cowboys, Team Defense (Saved my season last week)


My backups look like this.

Byron Leftwich
Adrian Peterson
Antonio Bryant
Ernest Wilford
L.J. Smith
John Kasay

And of course this guy fucked me.

Terrell Owens

Bowling
Fantasy Football

Some things TV gets right

I got this info from Warren Ellis site.

Invasion: full season renewal. (This news just may piss me off, how can they drag this out into a new season?)

My Name Is Earl: full season renewal. (Good for Jason Lee, he is hella funny in this, and so is his supporting cast)

Everybody Hates Chris: full season renewal. (funniest show out there hands down)

The War at Home: full season renewal. (this aint too bad, the wife loves it.)

Supernatural: full season renewal. (It's cheezy but I like it)

Also the rumor on the street is that "It's always sunny in Philadelphia" is going to have a new season on FX with Danny Divito in it. That show was already hilarious now I can't wait.

And I already bitched about the two shows that are being canceled so I won't go back into that. Ill throw up some more reviews tomorrow.


TV Shows

What is going on

Group wants to see humans extinct

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Make no mistake about it, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement isn't anti-child, it's more like anti-human.
The VHE is dedicated to phasing out the human race in the interest of the health of the Earth, founder Les Knight told Wednesday's San Francisco Chronicle.
With 16,000 people born per hour and a current global population of 6.5 billion, there are already more than enough people on the planet, Knight said.
A 1994 study concluded a single person born in the 1990s would be responsible during a lifetime for 22 million pounds of liquid waste and 2.2 million pounds each of solid waste and atmospheric waste, the newspaper said. He or she will have a lifetime consumption of 4,000 barrels of oil, 1.5 million pounds of minerals and 62,000 pounds of animal products that will necessitate the slaughter of 2,000 animals.
"Wherever humans live, not much else lives," Knight said. "It isn't that we're evil and want to kill everything -- it's just how we live."
Knight, who had a vasectomy at age 25, emphasizes VHE likes kids and says many of its members are parents as well as children.


Now come on. I swear that Ellis' Transmetropolitan is comming true.

Come to think of it I may be Anti-Human too, as to the fact that I hate everyone. Maybe they have a good idea here....yea that’s sarcasm. Well maybe not the Anti-Human thing…I really do hate most people.

And I think I may be closer to 4 million pounds of solid waste.

Original aticle can be found here http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051116-040458-3167r

I win yet again!

Yes its true, thanks to Dallas' defense I can now say I am .500 for the fist time this year. Fantasy football gods blessed me with a win after I tempted fate and put in Dallas' D! Now I need to win out the rest of the season! Well lets start with a win next week and maybe a wee bit more points than 68.

Now on to some things I have read over the last week.

Marvel Monsters: Fin Fang Four- Another in the marvel monsters series and it doesn't disappoint. Fing fang foom is pretty funny and the art is nice and fun. The back story of the original appearance of Fin Fang Foom was a good bonus....Besides the horrible stereotyping of Asian people, especially since they say "honorable" before everyone's name. But it was good old fashion fun.

Goon: Fancy Pants Edition HC- Ok this was more of a geeky buy than actual reading material. I have all the issues collected in this HC, but there is a forward by Eric Powell and a never before published story about Buzzard in there. There is also some nice new artwork and sketches and its signed by Mr. Powell. So yea nothing really new to read...But I'm a big fan of it!

Lonely Tombstone- This is a story that is in a format I've never seen. Also this was co-wrote by Steve Niles and his wife Nicki. The best I can compare it to is a 1/2 or a comic book. Anyway the story starts out great, its written more in a children's book format instead of the typical word balloon style of comic books. The art I loved, good job Mr. Roman. But the problem I had with it was the ending, it didn't really make sense with the rest of the story. It did make me chuckle, but really seemed like a cheap way to end a story that started so well. Anyway it was worth it for the art work.

that's it for now,

holy hell can this guy next to me blow his nose any louder? He's going to pop some blood vessel one of these days. Its one of those sounds that make you jump out of your seat because its soo load and so abrupt.

Enough bitchin....There it is again DAMN IT stop it.

done

TV is going to Hell

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=65de4dce4fdd3e31bf5bdfdeb74c678b&threadid=49341

Ok this basically says that the WB green lighted a new show about Aquaman....ala Smallville.

Mark my words this will be horrible. Just plain horrible. Don't forget that this is the network that decided not to air the pilot for global Frequency, witch would have been brilliant, instead they do this shit. Come on its Aquaman.... He was horrible in the JLA cartoon shows back when I was a kid. He always just seemed to summon a dolphin and attack a ship or what ever cause he was only useful in the water. Hey bad guy get an idea and get out of the water. But as a character he was uninteresting at best. Oh well people will watch it. Then there will be other "smallville" like shows centering on DC characters till they fuck away all the audience. And then there will be no more comic book characters on live action TV. And in other news FOX network has cancelled "Arrested Development". Finally Fox also canceled “Kitchen Confidential'' witch I only watched once because the premise looked very stupid, but turned out to be very funny and witty. Again fucked away! What is going wrong with TV network brass?

That is all for now.
comic books
TV Shows

Some stuff for yall

Had a good night last night. Had some HOT AS HELL Verde yesterday to test and see how its made. Not sure ill make it that hot this weekend, and I think I'm going to try it with chicken. Went to the store last night and got all the stuff. After that I ate Whites........So this could make for a difficult day at work. Anyway enough talk about my bowels on to some reviews.

Planetary Crossing Worlds TPB by Warren Ellis- This was OK. Nothing too great here. The only two things I liked was that they killed Superman in the second story and I liked the way they moved though all the Batman's in the last story. It was good, although it really did seem that it was not needed and felt terrible forced from Warren. The art by Cassiday in the last story was very well done. Overall the book was decent.


Batman Gotham County Line #1 (Of 3) by Steve Niles- This marks Steve Niles first stint on Batman and its a oversized issue to boot! I really enjoyed this title. Great set up for what's going to happen in later issues and the art by Scot Hampton is just wonderful. Actually I don't think I would have just picked this up on Niles's name all alone, when I heard that Hampton was working with him on this I just had to buy it. Hampton's work was just marvelous on "Spookhouse". The pacing of the book was perfect and it gave just enough pay off to keep me interested unlike the TV show "Invasion" witch is getting progressively slower. So yea I liked this issue a lot and I cant wait until the next.

That is all I read so far. Should have a fun weekend of cooking and watching football with my boy, mom is going to be out of town most of Saturday so we can hang out and act like boys....Not that we don't do that anyway. Back to work. More later.



comic books

Check out this webcomic

Check out this webcomic...its funny,


Overcompensating



web+comic

Something a little different

ALP is getting old and rather not funny. Ok that is really harsh for something that has brought me so much enjoyment. Lets just say I need a little change down there!

*Edit* this only worked for about 30 min. So i have changed it again. Click the comic for the creator.


The new comic at the bottom of the page is Perry Bible Fellowship and I believe that it gets updated once a week.
Just to clear this up, I don't write or illustrate those comics at the bottom. Nicholas Gurewitch is the author of the Perry Bible Fellowship, so go over to his page and poke around and say what fun his web comic is.

Just click the picture for the archive of all the comics.

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I Win

I actually won 2 weeks in a row in fantasy football...I cant believe it. If I get a win this week I can hit .500...Wouldn't that be just unheard of!

Also on Sunday I put in a new water heater, witch went especially well, so I assume something bad will happen right around the corner. Especially since I won in fantasy football, we won 2 games and total in bowling, and the heater started working....Something bad is lurking I can feel it!

Ok, now on to stuff I have read.

Finder by Carla Speed McNiel- This book was very confusing and it took me a while to get though it. It wasn't bad...It was just muddled. There were flashes of brilliance and then some pages that were just incomprehensible. I didn't know all of what was going on until the last couple of pages of the 130+ pages of the story. I'm not sure if that was a good or a bad thing. Also the lettering was just piss poor. I'm hopping since this was an independent comic that was written years ago that the other editions get better. Now that I think about it the art does get better as the book progresses. I will have to think long and hard about reading the next TPB.

Marvel Mosters "Devil Dinosaur" by Eric Powell- The bad thing about Powell is that all his characters end up looking like they are in the Goon. Now that really isn't a bad thing, its just I think he should stick with the Goon if he is going to draw everything looking like those characters. That being said, the story was good. It was just good plain fun and I suppose that's what marvel had in mind for this run of "Marvel Mosters" books. I didn't read yet the story in the back of the first appearance of the hulk, but I'm sure I will eventually. Its definitely worth the 3.99$ for both of these stories and the art by Powell.

Marvel Mosters "Mosters on the Prowl" by Steve Niles- Now this story was good. It had all kinds of characters in it, and it was hilarious. The art was solid. Besides that there isn't much more to say about this. It was funny, action packed good ole comics fun. And the Kirby story about the "Ninth wonder of the world" was also great. I hope the next two issues of this are just as good as these.

Fell #2 by Warren Ellis- Now this is a good comic. The art, the writing its just top notch. Its an independent story but it has background themes that tie all the issues together, but it can be read as a single issue and be understood. This book is making me more and more of a fan of Templesmith. There is a shot when Detective Fell kicks a door in that just plain gets it done. The blurred affect and the way its drawn really induces a thought of motion, it was just incredible. I can't say enough good things about this comic. And for 1.99$ how can you not try it out?

Ok that's all I have read so far, I have enough stuff to keep me busy until thanksgiving.

Tried to make some Chili Verde last night. While I wouldn't put it down as a disaster...I would have to say it could have been MUCH better. I have already found a new recipe and will try again this weekend while the wife is out of town...And the cooking peppers wont burn her eyes, sorry about that.


comic books

Holy Crap

This is what I got in the mail....Witch is a big batch for me!

BATMAN GOTHAM COUNTY LINE #1 (Of 3)
DAMPYR #6 LAMIAH
FELL #2
GARTH ENNIS 303 WRAPAROUND CVR #6 (Of 6) (MR)
GIANT MONSTER #1
GOON 25 CENT COMIC
GOON FANCY PANTS ED HC (C: 4)
MARVEL MONSTERS DEVIL DINOSAUR
MARVEL MONSTERS FIN FANG FOUR
MARVEL MONSTERS MONSTERS ON THE PROWL
MARVEL MONSTERS WHERE MONSTERS DWELL
REVELATIONS #3 (Of 6)
V FOR VENDETTA NEW EDITION HC (MR)
LONELY TOMBSTONE ONE SHOT
PLANETARY CROSSING WORLDS TP (JAN040280)


and I still have to finish this "Finder". I will be back this week periodically with reviews.

comic books

Mostly bad but funny

"How Much Is My Blog Worth?
Inspired by Tristan Louis's research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, I've created this little applet using Technorati's API which computes and displays your blog's worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal. "

I did not wirte this applet. I assume it was this guy Dane Carlson

This is the result for my Blog.

My blog is worth $0.00.
How much is your blog worth?

Good/Bad

The good is that my Fantasy Football team won, the rams won and the Steelers Won. Also I have a week match up this week so I should get another win! Also my boy enjoyed wearing his costume around all night for Halloween. He really liked going to peoples houses and caught on to the idea of "Trick or Treating" so all that was good. Bad is that both my furnace and my washing machine is not working at the present time....So I will have to fix those both soon. Play poker tonight with the guys. Then tomorrow night my wife has to bowl. So maybe I can start fixing stuff on Thursday!

Anyway back to work.

Oh yea I should be getting a rather hefty order of comics and stuff this week. So after I finish reading this "Finder" thing, I will read and review all that junk.