Getting ready for bed as I am rising early in the morning to go to Hillsville, Va. for the big Flea Market. I did want to post though and decided this print from Wilkes Library Con was the perfect Friday offering. I think it was called Phoenix Fairy if memory serves.
I have made a decision on the books to cut from my pull box. I am having to really tighten up the budget. I feel that one it is time to let go of and I will right more about that book later. I do hope to find a few good deals tomorrow. It will be Comicbook Rescue Project time. I will have little cash though to maneuver with during the day. I still have fun looking around at all the cool stuff.
Have a great Labor Day Weekend!
BDS
Fairy Tail is the reason I am not keeping up with my comics blogging. Well, maybe not, but it is the excuse I will go with. While sick and under the dizzying effects of the meds I watched a BUNCH of Netflix. I am almost finished with EUREKA and did finish MAKO MERMAIDS. I also discovered FAIRY TAIL. I was scrolling along the new stuff added to my suggestions list and saw Fairy Tail multiple times and got to thinking. I remembered running into a Fairy Tail group when browsing CosPlay sites. It seems I had found something that connected with my interest in dressing up as characters of things. So I watched the first episode and was hooked.
I fell in love with Lucy and instantly loved Happy. Natsu was funny and dramatic. He really fits the anime hero style well. Soon Grey entered the picture and I met the one most people seemed to be imitating, Erza. It soon became my obsession. I had to watch at least until the multiple stories ended. I would break a bit and dive in again.
This is just one of those great series that has such a wonderful message of hope and family. Family being what you make when you share common ground with others. The importance of sticking together and being honorable shines strong. There is cool magic and adventure as we watch people struggle just to make it in their world. So many misfits and they found a home in the Fairy Tail Guild. When attacked they stand together even if it means they might die. This is just the best animated series I have seen in a very long while.
So that is what I have been doing.
BDS
I really should have had this done earlier in the week, but the antibiotics and cough pill have really made me tired and dizzy. Still, I did pull out my guilty little pleasure of comicbook collecting and reading. I didn't fall for the Danger Girls when they first appeared. I saw the cheesecake covers (and yes I do own a copy of the famous Abbey Chase Bubble Bath cover) and was not a purchaser of comics for art. I was in my early days of returning to comics as well. I didn't delve into the Image waters much. It would be many years later that I would find some Danger Girl comics in collected and single forms for a steal and buy them. I liked those early issues well enough.
What has really captured my imagination has been the last ten years or so of Danger Girl. It has comeback in limited series forms many times and I like that. I have bought a few and really have enjoyed how the characters have grown since those early cheesecake days. TRINITY was the last one I purchased and IDW now has the franchise. The downside of which is the cost of a single issue, $3.99. Still, I was doing better back when this came out and picked each issue up off the shelf. I have put the covers I own in the posts. If you know anything about Danger Girl, it is that there are always multiple covers.
For those that do not know about Danger Girl, it is a great spy/action/adventure comic. It all started with the recruitment of Abbey Chase, Archaeologist and Relic Hunter. She gets brought into the Spy group Know as Danger Girl. There are sisters Sydney and Sonya Savage as well as Deuce and Valerie. Deuce is a former British Intelligent Agent and the surly leader of the team. Valerie is the teenage tech whiz that aspires to be like Abbey. It is Abbey, Sydney, and Sonya that are the three main femme fatales. Each gets there own cover this series.
That is good since it reads as a three part action tale that will converge in issue #4. Abbey is abducted very politely by a desert king and taken for some unknown reason. She always is falling into trouble like this and it leads to her Indiana Jones like saving of the day. It was Sydney that got some of the sex appeal action and funny relationship stuff as she is called to save Abbey while with a nice guy. He ends up in some strange situations because of her. Oh, there is also a group of assassins that are after her. That leaves Sonya as she is retrieving a bounty and anther group of killers have it out for her. The guy she has captured ends up as her buddy during many high octane escapes.
All this leads to Abbey figuring out who is the baddies and who needs help. Her Danger Girl pals arrive and everything gets explosive. This is a group of characters that are used as typical sexy women in comic art ways, but stories like this feel more rendered as it has some well done writing to accompany all the great art. People will buy Danger Girl stories for different reasons. So far, I have enjoyed the recent adventures. I would urge you to not just judge these gals by there covers, but try out the stories. You might be surprised at how independent and strong these female characters have become.
BDS
No Flashback Friday this week. I have been suffering a very bad cough and just felt lousy. I will ramble a bit tonight. I have put up a scan of a print I bought at HeroesCon for your enjoyment. I love the way it has the B & W vs the color version displayed. Not sure how long Netflix will take to get the new Doc up on the watch list, but for now I am happy to be able to watch again.
Anyway. I am feeling a bit mixed about my comics right now. I still love them and have this collector's need to collect, but I also have an ever dwindling inflow of cash. Being in the hospital increased my debt. I now have three different bills that I am juggling. because one is over 3,000 I can't realistically combine them. What was really screwy was because I am living with my Dad they were all interested in his draw from Social Security instead of my take home pay. Not really liking the "new" corporate local hospital. Other things seem to be increasing, except the money I make. So I feel a need to cut the titles I am reading. A few seem simple. I mean X-O Manowar is expensive and having crossover stuff, so it will be cut. DC may make it easy to cut if they are increasing certain titles by $1. One might be something I really like, but I am not liking this increase.
I am peeved by my inability to force myself to write. I was going to begin just getting ideas out of my head. The very least thing was to utilize the Blog and have post written even if they were to be scheduled and posted later. The lack of a Monday post has shown that that goal is not being met. So I am twisting right now. I did scratch enough to go see Guardians of the Galaxy. Marvel did I good job with the characters. It really was a top-notch movie.
Well, I feel like trying to get some rest in a bit. Take care geekazoids and nerdlings.
BDS
One great thing about going to a Convention is that you should be able to get trades for bargain prices. I love the $5 trades at HeroesCon. That is what this week's Flashback Friday is and I am so glad. Captain Midnight is a book I would be reading if I could afford the $3.50 price that Dark Horse has on their books. They have many titles I would love to read, I just can't afford to do it. So for me, finding Captain Midnight in a $5 trade book was outstanding.
It has the Free Comic Book Day Captain Midnight #0 and collects #1 - #3 of the ongoing series. It really is a great introduction for the character and series. It also plays into the Black Sky mystery that Dark Horse has running through many of their titles. Here we get a time lost hero returning to find a brave new world, just not the one he envisioned. He expected flying cars and rocket packs.
Jim Albright might be from the World War II era, but he has the smarts and moves to outmaneuver the tech of 2013. He will need it as the daughter of the man he let die is out for revenge. She was lost in time as well. She just reappeared in the 1980's. Fury Shark is her name and she has been a busy little Nazi. We get action and adventure in an old school feel as Captain Midnight picks up the fight for Justice.
The book is filled with great humor as you read along and see both an old style of story being presented and a modern conspiracy tale. This would be a great movie franchise. It reminds me of the Indiana Jones movies or what I wish The Rocketeer had become. Search out and find the Captain Midnight books. It is well worth your time.
BDS
