While picking up Super Friends: The Lost Episodes yesterday for the nephew’s birthday party, I happened to see that Batman: Year One was out as well… so I picked up a copy of that too (for me, though).
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I watched Year One on Friday. It’s a quick view, maybe an hour or so.
It’s been a long time since I read Year One, and why I was struck by watching the adaptation was how many moments of Batman Begins seem to be inspired by visuals in Year One.
As for reading, I am in the middle of that latest Terry Pratchett and Neal Stephenson.
what i was struck by, obviously
I saw the commercial for Year One and I remember thinking “That’s from the comic, *THAT* is from the comic, *THAT* is from the comic…”
It’s good that those little scenes weren’t cherry picked!
I brought three books to read on the plane to Buenos Aires:
Finished Pratchett’s Lord and Ladies. Besides the bloody main plot, it was nice to see all three witches in (some variety of) love.
Mostly finished Put Out More Flags. This has aged worse than any of the other Waugh I’ve read recently: lots of unfathomable topical references. A farewell to his original cast of characters: I don’t know if any of them recur, except in the late short story Basil Seal Rides Again.
I’ll save The Big Sleep for the trip back.
And missed game 3 of the Series, Albert Pujols is fishing amazing.
What the hell are you doing in Buenos Aires?
Work; my company has an office there.
On the way back, I read The Big Sleep, most of (Faulkner’s) The Hamlet, and a couple stories out of the latest Walter Jon Williams anthology, my favorite of which was an alt-hist where Nietzsche was in Tombstone for the shootout at OK Corral. . (WJW is the best SF writer no one but Density Duck and I have ever heard of.)
I’m watching myself make tombstones for the front lawn’s Halloween decorations.
REST
IN
PEACE
I’m bringing The Magicians, A Storm of Swords and Geek Love on the plane.
I watched Year One on Friday. It’s a quick view, maybe an hour or so.
It’s been a long time since I read Year One, and why I was struck by watching the adaptation was how many moments of Batman Begins seem to be inspired by visuals in Year One.
As for reading, I am in the middle of that latest Terry Pratchett and Neal Stephenson.
what i was struck by, obviously
I saw the commercial for Year One and I remember thinking “That’s from the comic, *THAT* is from the comic, *THAT* is from the comic…”
It’s good that those little scenes weren’t cherry picked!
I brought three books to read on the plane to Buenos Aires:
Finished Pratchett’s Lord and Ladies. Besides the bloody main plot, it was nice to see all three witches in (some variety of) love.
Mostly finished Put Out More Flags. This has aged worse than any of the other Waugh I’ve read recently: lots of unfathomable topical references. A farewell to his original cast of characters: I don’t know if any of them recur, except in the late short story Basil Seal Rides Again.
I’ll save The Big Sleep for the trip back.
And missed game 3 of the Series, Albert Pujols is fishing amazing.
What the hell are you doing in Buenos Aires?
Work; my company has an office there.
On the way back, I read The Big Sleep, most of (Faulkner’s) The Hamlet, and a couple stories out of the latest Walter Jon Williams anthology, my favorite of which was an alt-hist where Nietzsche was in Tombstone for the shootout at OK Corral. . (WJW is the best SF writer no one but Density Duck and I have ever heard of.)
I’m watching myself make tombstones for the front lawn’s Halloween decorations.
REST
IN
PEACE
I’m bringing The Magicians, A Storm of Swords and Geek Love on the plane.
A good trip or a bad one?
Work, so let’s call it bad.
Bummer.