HEROES CONVENTION: Friday 2014

Made it down safe and sound.  Things were smooth and the day was very lite in terms of crowd.  There was a good amount of people and the spread out design really made for a great time of browsing.  I have two sketches already.  One is of Odie and the other is a sketch cover of the TARDIS as a Transformer.  Bought 40 comics and picked up a few trades.  Really cool beginning to vacation.

One bad thing that they did this year was not let you leave you prints if you had three day passes.  This was a bad decision I think.  It was always nice to be able to pick your print up as you left to check into a hotel instead of risking damage as you carried it around.  I bought some awesome bow ties.  Just had great fun and really looking forward to taking pics, sitting in on some panels, and spending money on the collection.

Also stopped by the Charlotte Hornets store.  It is nice having Hugo Hornet back in the Carolinas where he belongs.

BDS 

Malibu Monday: Prime #1 Volume 2

Yes, that does say the Sensational Spider-Prime on the cover.  Makes sense for the time period.  Malibu is now under Marvel's ownership and all new characters in the Marvel Universe had to have so tangent Spider-Man appearances.  This would be a very confusing issue then and now for a casual reader.  I am scant on issues of Prime in my new Ultraverse collecting group.  I do understand that this comes directly off the big Infinity/Black September event that combined the two companies.  So we have Spider-Prime.

Kevin is our Spider-Prime.  Knowing that he is really Prime helps because there is also Prime in this comicbook.  So that could be confusing.  I think that this was one of the things that hurt the Ultraverse.  They were just shoehorned in and seems to never really have a chance at succeeding.  The entire story is weird and confusing.  Not really lighting a fire for the few issues that might follow.

Still, this is partly why I am collecting these books.  There are some interesting things in gathering the remnants of what could have been a great company had they been able to become powerful enough to compete with the big two.  Still, if you are looking to start a Prime collection, begin with Volume 1.

BDS

Flashback Friday....not this week.

Sorry, taking about 20 kids to an amusement park tomorrow and on my list of things, getting a post done fell short.  Will say that the Uprising storyline in Green Lantern books seems promising after a very slow go since last summer's new beginning.

BDS

Life Update

I have been trying to find some sense of organization, but alas, it is fleeting.  I have ended the push to raise money for HeroesCon.  The weekends at the flea market, the weekdays in the heat, and a few Mondays all selling plants and other stuff to help fund vacation ended on a good note.  I should cover cost and enjoy myself.  I just have to pace myself and watch the meals.  Health-wise I got a good report on my A1C1 three month test.  It dropped from 11 to 6.8.  That is better blood sugar levels.  Amazing what not having to ration insulin will do.  New medicine seems to help as well.

My memory seems to be going with all the medicine.  That is hurting my trying to keep things straight with work.  I get forgetful.  Again, need to figure out a way to compensate.  Work has been busy.  Preparation for Summer Camp and an upcoming youth outing are fast and furious.  I have been working in my head a plan for our first Vacation Bible School on our own.  Been assisting a family in need and trying to be responsible and keeping contact with people.  One great thing is that one of my Youth was chosen to go as a team of six kids to El Salvador as part of the 30 Hour Famine Study Tour.  She will get to see where the money raised is spent and even help out children of that area.  I never thought one of my kids would ever be a part of this as I have lead this event at various churches, but she has a calling and I see God's hand in this trip as part of that.

Just know I am planning on trying to place posts to be added in a timely fashion with the set up for calendar scheduled posts.  Not happened yet, but soon.  I need to scan a few covers that I could not find great images already online.  I am going to the comic shop today.  I dread the hold box cost.  It will be big.  Might have to leave some behind.  definitely need to drop a couple more.

Just working to survive right now.  Loneliness is a enemy, by work has pushed back on that for the moment.

BDS

Flashback Fridays: Justice League International Annual #2

Getting back into the swing of things with a JLI offering for you patient people.  Recently a great lady at church allowed me to purchase some old comics from her at a really great price.  I am giving her money from some that I sell, not because I have to, but because it just feels like the right thing to do.  The books were varied, but really cool.  This Annual from the quirky JLI series was one of them.  It is funny and just a great read.  Harkens (how many times do you get to use the word harkens in a sentence?) back to a simpler time of comics.  A time when all was not grim and reality based.  Sex sold in a subtle way and life was always wrapped up in nice packages in the end.

This issue has the Joker trying to assassinate the heroes of the Justice League International.  It is one blunder and dumb luck scenario after another.  The Joker is very dark, but in a dark humor way.  He makes the story move as we get a peak at the lives of part of the JLI.  Big Barda and Scott Free (Mister Miracle) are throwing a Bar B Que at their suburban home.  All the action will funnel to that area by the end.  Martian Manhunter and Rocket Red experience the Little Russia area of New York I assume.  Booster Gold and Blue Beetle become Repo Men.  This leads to them driving an experimental Tank to the gathering.  Yes, the Joker gets in the drivers seat eventually.  Ice Maiden shows up Fire on an audition for models.  It all runs smoothly into a look at their off adventure lives while a homicidal clown tries to off them without success.

The end has a moment that is so far removed from how we see Batman today that it is funny, yet odd to read for me.  Oh, forgot to mention Guy Gardner trying to help Scott with the grill, it is funny.  Light-hearted read with a strangely serious plot.  What comics lacks nowadays in many ways.

I hope to get some post lined up in the que, so keep an eye out.  Also thanks for reading.  It is nice to see that people check out these ramblings.

BDS

Wow, I knew it had been a bit since I had posted, but Wow.  It has been a combination of things that have keep me from posting.  I have read two novels, health problems are bad, selling stuff to afford HeroesCon, Netflix, and a bit of laziness.  I hope to recover the mojo soon.  If not at least I will post about HeroesCon that weekend.

BDS

IT'S ALMOST HERE!!!!!!!!

It is Free Comic Book DAY EVE and I am soon to go to bed because the stupid Jonesville Jubilee is having a Run and shutting my road down and I have to get started early.  But the excitement is building, while kind of building.  I am very broke so the Free part will be the main part.  Probably not buying anything from my pull box tomorrow either.  Still, this is the big day that has fun and coolness written all over it.  Weather is suppose to be nice.  Just got to get there.

Read Terry Goodkind's The Third Kingdom this week.  I hope to write about it soon.  I have to get the book back to the Library after this next week.  It was good and better than the last couple of books in this Richard and Kahlan focused series that followed the end of The Sword Of Truth series.

Have a great Free Comic Book Day and then May the 4th be with you!

BDS