ReRead Review: Countdown 41-39

Countdown is perhaps the worst series I ever bought.  I had high hopes.  Paul Dini, weekly comic, just coming off the surprisingly awesome 52, I was ready.  Then I started to buy this abortion of a comic.  I bought into the hype.  I knew the bad from the first issue.  But, I figured it would just start slow.  It kept promising that it was going to have a major bearing on the DC universe.  No, no not really ever.  Eventually I got so far into this series that my OCD would not allow me to stop buying it.  Even though I hated it.  The best thing about 52 were not in this comic: character development.  All the characters in this series are shallow as shallow gets.  Don’t ever read this series.

Coundown 41: This issue, the rogues fall from a plane.  (the rogues storyline being the best in the whole series btw)Jimmy Olson becomes Mr. Action for the first time.  Retarded Jason Todd and his band of merry men go to the Palmer-verse and names his monitor Bob.  Karate Kid almost goes back to the 31st century…then doesn’t.  Harley Quinn and Catwoman Jr. are fake amazons.  Sounds exciting eh?  Too many storylines.

Countdown 40: Repeated bad.

Countdown 39: Repeated bad even worse.

I wish that I hadn’t started doing this review thing while in the middle of Countdown.  But, that’s where fate has brought me.  The Countdown stuff may not be very good, review-wise, but that would be a perfect mirror of how good the series actually was: BAD. 

I am reading the new Star Wars book, Outcast.  It is pretty dang good.  But, it will keep me from posting the reviews often since, when I’m actually reading a book, I don’t read my back issues.

 Total comics owned: 4172

Party on. 

Darth Paige

The circle is now complete.  Together we will rule the galaxy as Father and Daughter.

Testing out the Windows Live Writer

Why is it that I pretty much hate every Microsoft product that attempts to be “cool” like Google.  Don’t try to beat google.  Just submit.  To the inevitable pain of death. 

In case you are curious, which I’m sure you’re not, here’s the link to download it and try it out yourself.  Windows Live Writer .  I do like the text wrapping feature.  And it is sorta easier to put pictures in.  Could this Live Writer spruce my blog up?  Maybe.  All of these things can be done on a regular blogging site.  Since installing it, my computer keeps hiccupping.  I don’t like hiccups. 

What a delightfully weird post. :P

Womanizer

Not as good as the old Boba Fett video for sure, but still pretty good.  And creepy.

Brishmous

My middle daughter Megan decided to say that I am very brishmous this morning.  That caused quite a laugh around the breakfast table.  I asked her what it meant and she informed me.  Here it is.

Brishmous, adj, - stop doing what you're blushing like a gorilla

So there you have it.  I immediately stopped being brishmous and wrote the definition on a piece of paper that went on the fridge.  I plan to implement this strange word in my daily life from now on.

Mission Statement rev. 1

I am doing something that not many people do. I am re-reading all of my comics in alphabetical order. I have something like 2300 books. I can get you an exact number later as I use Comic Collector Live (recommend). The concept started over a year ago when I decided I would reread all my Batman comics. It took me about 2 months. Hmm...wouldn't it be cool to do ALL of them? You bet it would. So I started at 52. I am currently in the middle of Countdown. I still buy new books every week so it slows me down quite a bit and expands continually how much I need to read. I read before bed every night and during the days on weekends. So, every day, I'll post the books I read the previous day with my impressions of said books. It won't be a full fledged review but I will tell you if the book sucked or not and why - leaving out spoilers if possible. I will appreciate any feedback or responses. I am reading new books for the next couple days so the first posts will not be until I finish the new books.

Twitter continued

I may have figured out twitter a bit more. If you actually have followers and people you follow it's sort of fun. Plus you can tie it into your facebook status updates.

twitter

So I just started using Twitter. You would think being a technology guy I would be more up on this. So far, I'm not that down with it. You can do basically the same thing on facebook already. Why have multiple networking sites if you only need one?
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So why am I still using Twitter???

twitter.com/supertim82