02 March 2014 @ 05:35 pm
"aww, pants"  
> On the box: I am behind with very many tv shows at the moment, oops. I am, however, up to date with The Walking Dead ('nooo, go the other way!' is becoming a thing I say often this season, for goodness sake characters) and I am three episodes from the end of season three in the big Watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer In Order challenge. No films this week.

> Books Read: The Girl With All The Gifts (excellent dystopian future novel, the changes in viewpoints never distract from the story, and interesting thoughts on choices at the end of humanity as well know it), The Poison Eaters and Other Stories by Holly Black (an absorbing short story collection full of fairytales with sharp edges, including the short story that came before the novel The Coldest Girl in Coldtown so it was fun to see how the novel grew from that, and two stories set in the Tithe 'verse), and Fables Volume 1: Legends In Exile (this was okay, but not as good as all the hype made it out to be. I appreciate that it's the first volume at the start of a long ongoing series, so does it get better? Should I stick with it?)

> This weeks comics: Hawkeye 15 (from which today's post title comes from; so many 'caught with your pants down' jokes, so, so many. Also, people having fun with spotting names and words in the crossword cover? There is a lot of 'BRO', ha), Secret Avengers 16 (I'm not entirely sure I got the point here. Has Bobbi, along with Daisy and Bucky, escaped the wierdness of SHIELD's memory games whilst the others haven't, is that the point?, Serenity: Leaves On The Wind 2 (when is the more?!), Origin II 3 (it's okay), Guardians of the Galaxy 12: The Trial of Jean Grey Part 4/6 (these tie-ins make me want to read the earlier Gaurdians comics, I should do this).

>Recs: things that are especially wonderful that I found this week are we might fall (steve rogers character study vid) by [livejournal.com profile] turquoisetumult in which Steve always gets back up and that, that's a superpower, and one he had right from the start. And Introduction To Western Literature by igrockspock (Avengers, Clint/Natasha, Teen and Up, 2645 words) in which in the beginning books and reading are the only things that Natasha has in common with the rest of SHIELD. This one is booklovers story, definitely, and that last line, YES.
 
 
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inkvoices: X:story[personal profile] inkvoices on March 5th, 2014 10:37 pm (UTC)
Oh gosh, the early issue where the Avengers and X Men are having words, Cap and someone else, and Bobby and Kitty are reinterpreating the conversation! Cracked me up no end. And Maria Hill on X Men and time travel towards the end of the Battle of the Atom run. And, just, yes, so much hilarity :D
[identity profile] ladymercury-10.livejournal.com on March 5th, 2014 10:40 pm (UTC)
Bobby and Kitty reenacting that conversation was hilarious. And the time Bobby said he liked talking to Rocket because it made him feel like a Disney Princess. Are you reading Uncanny X-Men too?
inkvoices: avengers:jane book love[personal profile] inkvoices on March 6th, 2014 09:38 pm (UTC)
I read the first three, I think, of Uncanny, and I have bunch more cheap from comics fayres to read, maybe up to ten or eleven? But I wasn't keeping up and stopped. I read all the Battle of the Atom crossover stuff though. I've been trying to be good and not buy comics if I haven't been keeping up with them and they're not cheap at fayes, because otherwise the trades are cheaper later. I will have to go back through my reading pile if you're rec-ing these though!
[identity profile] ladymercury-10.livejournal.com on March 6th, 2014 11:05 pm (UTC)
I like Uncanny a lot, especially because Magik is in it. Also it got kind of hard for me to tell it and All-New apart after Battle of the Atom, because there's so much crossover and Bendis is writing both of them.