JLSigman

I'm just at the other side of Sins of Sinister (my library is real slow to get the collected comics out on Hoopla), so I know there's more to catch up on, but yeah, I agree that going back to the old status quo is going to be real hard. Is Magneto going to stay dead? What will they do with Arakko? What about Krakoa himself? What about Xavier, and Legion, and and and --

James Coley showed up, looked around, said "Fuck this," and now South Carolina needs another coach again.

2/5 t o W0rldtr33 vol 1 It's OK. The gratuitous nudity is eye-roll inducing - every body, even the woman who has had 4 kids in 20 years, is high and tight with no stretch marks and shaved pubes, even in the dystopian future. There's also the bog standard "He doesn't tell anyone anything until he dies". I will probably not bother with the rest.

Read 20th Century Men by Deniz Camp. It was pretty good for 4 issues. Then it went off the rails and tried to do too much at once and suddenly did weird things with time and completely shit the bed.

Not sure what they mean by free to play, but it is on sale on Steam half off and there's a demo/trial I may check to see if this old machine can run it.

It's been on Broadway forever

For those interested in hard to find PS1 classics, Squeenix has finally released the Xenogears soundtrack by Yasunori Mitsuda on streaming platforms.

This has been in my TBR pile for a while, glad to hear good things about it.

Like trying to say Kate Middleton has NOT had a surgical hysterectomy.

Bret Hart has finally, FINALLY, given up on Vince McMahon.

Those of us who are Kingdom Hearts fans looking at Epic Games fans like, "First time?"

There's also a new trailer, and if you want to go in the game unspoilered you'll want to avoid it.

There will be a FF 7 Rebirth demo available starting tomorrow. You have been warned.

The XBox beta for FF XIV officially starts February 21. There are a bunch of rules, caveats, a couple of quid pro quos....

While attempting to figure out how I was getting some prescription refills and dealing with much bureaucratic stupidity, I used my last Hoopla borrow for January to grab The Fellspyre Chronicle since it was long (over 400 pages) and I could easily look up and make eye contact with the receptionist every few moments. This was one of the best fantasy comics I have ever read. It's two stories at once, heartbreaking, infuriating, and ultimately triumphant. The art was incredible; there was often a lot going on but it never felt messy, you could always tell what was going on. There were a lot of interludes of prose, or song, that really added to the story. Just about as perfectly told as you could want.

In South Carolina, we went from 17 on Sunday morning to 74 yesterday. We'll be back in the 30 - 50 range by Sunday again. (insert "slide whistle.mp3" here)

Million billion stars to Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson. This is my first re-read of the year. Now that I finally own The Final Empire trilogy in hard back, I'm re-reading it. Then, with any luck, I'll remember to ask my brother to let me borrow the four part sequel later on. I love the characters, I love Allomancy, I love the unanswered questions. I'll start the second book in the morning.

Stephanie and Hunter knew it all, they were the ones in charge of the internal investigations.

There's also the fact they leaked to someone (see tweet)

It is good and disturbing as hell.

WHAT??? WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Shit it's going to be at the theater right behind my house.

Bad Batch season 3 starts Feb 21. A nice spoiler at the very end of the trailer.

Yeah, I saw y'all were getting Tornado watches and stuff... that's my thing! Y'all do not need them! (stay safe!)

Cypress (the tortie) looking at Shao May, who's gone limp in the sunshine, like, "Do you not have one shred of dignity?"

4/5 stars to Once and Future, vol 5, by Kieron Gillen. The mad lad did it - he stuck the landing in a way that made sense without an extreme amount of Dues Ex Machinas. And we even (finally!) got the reason why most of the Arthur's look like... that. At some point I will definite want to go back and read them all the way through in a much shorter timeline, just to see what I forgot.