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Comics, and The Matrix
May. 10th, 2004 02:05 pm
Had a good weekend, really.
One kinda amusing thing that happened this weekend - walking out of my comic book store and realizing just what a gender-reversal Mike and I had in there. I'd been chatting with the store owner, asking about the new "Marvel Age" line (old stories, new art, in case you're wondering), and going "oh, cool" about various titles. Meanwhile, Mike was kind of hanging about the door, with this "what kinda place is this?" look on his face. Hee.
I picked up the new Gotham Knights while I was in there, even though I haven't quite caught up on the back issues yet. I find myself being pulled, kicking and screaming, into the Batman fandom. If it were one comic, no big deal. But to get all the adventures of the entire Batfamily? There's 5 straight Batman comics: Batman, Batman Adventures, Detective Comics, Gotham Knights and Legends of the Dark Knight. When you add in the other individual books - Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Catwoman and Birds of Prey and the "Batperson as a member of team" books like Teen Titans or JLA, not to mention the mini-series, one-offs and specials... well, even at my fairly liberal budget it start looking mighty expensive. How on earth do people keep up?
We spent most the day yesterday watching The Matrix: Reloaded and Revolutions. We'd seen Reloaded in the theatres when it was released a year ago, but I was pretty unimpressed at the time. ( On second viewing )
( Matrix: Revolutions, spoilers )
Maybe next weekend we'll finally make it to Kill Bill, Vol. 2.
One kinda amusing thing that happened this weekend - walking out of my comic book store and realizing just what a gender-reversal Mike and I had in there. I'd been chatting with the store owner, asking about the new "Marvel Age" line (old stories, new art, in case you're wondering), and going "oh, cool" about various titles. Meanwhile, Mike was kind of hanging about the door, with this "what kinda place is this?" look on his face. Hee.
I picked up the new Gotham Knights while I was in there, even though I haven't quite caught up on the back issues yet. I find myself being pulled, kicking and screaming, into the Batman fandom. If it were one comic, no big deal. But to get all the adventures of the entire Batfamily? There's 5 straight Batman comics: Batman, Batman Adventures, Detective Comics, Gotham Knights and Legends of the Dark Knight. When you add in the other individual books - Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Catwoman and Birds of Prey and the "Batperson as a member of team" books like Teen Titans or JLA, not to mention the mini-series, one-offs and specials... well, even at my fairly liberal budget it start looking mighty expensive. How on earth do people keep up?
We spent most the day yesterday watching The Matrix: Reloaded and Revolutions. We'd seen Reloaded in the theatres when it was released a year ago, but I was pretty unimpressed at the time. ( On second viewing )
( Matrix: Revolutions, spoilers )
Maybe next weekend we'll finally make it to Kill Bill, Vol. 2.
