Whats I"m Up To

8.29.2005

Test For Comic Post

This Is a formatting test for some comic reviews that will be a part of TheYanni.Net Season 3. Which is coming along steadilly. This review ended up being kind of long, the ones i want to do I'm gonna try to be more brief.



Daredevil #76
Daredevil #76

Story: The Murdock Papers - Part 1
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Alex Maleev
Publisher: Marvel Knights
Price: $2.99

This is the first part of the final Story for this creative team on Daredevil. The team of Bendis and Maleev has been here for the last 3 or 4 years, since issue 26. Which means they have written about 2/3 of the entire series so far, now thats impressive. Not only that they've told some of the best Daredevil stories ever written, if not some the the most unique comics Marvel has ever put out. But as good as they have been, all good things must end, but at least it looks like their goin out with a bang.

Quick recap here, Daredevil has been outed as Daredevil by the Press as Matt Murdock. He filed a lawsuit saying its not true. After losing his seat of power the Kingpin tried desprately to ged rid of DD as a symbol of his rise back to power, threw every ace in the whole, Typhoid Mary, Bullseye, all fell short. Till the big showdown with the Kingpin himself. DD beat him and in a fit of rage declaired himself the new Kingpin, and sent word to the people off Hell's Kitchen to clean up or get out.

A year has gone by, things have gotten better and have started to look good for Matt, buisness is good, people seem to like DD again, and people have stopped attacking Matt Murdock, so of course the shit has to hit the fan. Kingpin has made a deal with the feds to give up information, and has requested DDs reporter friend Ben Urich to write the story. What they don't know is that he's not giving up information of his criminal dealings, he's giving information about Daredevil.

The story being set up is great, it really feels like an epic story. As always Maleev's moody, shadowy, and distictly noir style is showing us how good he is after 3 years or so of being with this character. And Bendis always looks at things from a slightly different perspective, we know Kingpin is a huge guy and is dangerous, but he is also very intelligent. You just know he's gonna turn his seemingly defeat, from where he is in prison, to having himself back at the top of the food chain. While I do think there's the feel of putting everything back in its place to get ready for the next creative team. At least Bendis is giving us logical and compelling reasons for doing it. I mean as if anyone thought Kingpin wasn't going to be the Kingpin for very long.

Needless to say I excited about this story and what means for DD, Kingpin, and the status quo of this book. Another great issue in the bag, for this team. It featured the classic Bendis story decompression, but I'm definetly used to it by now, and of course another Bendis talent....boy can he write great Cliffhangers, despite the fact its not the promise of a fight, a death, or a new character. The art really gets you involved because its just very down to earth, plus after all the good thats finally happening, you genuinely hate to see how this is probably gonna get. You think he deserves a break, but then again as nice as that would be, it wouldn't be as interesting.

9/10 Great set-up to whats hopefully a great story

8.19.2005

I was depressed...but that changed

Writtn 3 Days ago:
I don't know why lately but I feel totally lost. I rarely feel like doing anything, then get mad at myself for wasting time. So many things i want to do or have to do, so I don't do either. Like the next version of this website, I wanted to start weeks ago, when i had less distractions. I didn't partially because of not fully decided on the concept, but thats besides the point.

Written Now:
Get ideas in wierdest places, and at the strangest times. While at work I suddenly had some ideas for the site, found some paper and went nuts. I got all the content planned out, just gotta decide if I'm gonna stick with the left hand side menu or do an overhead drop down menu, similar to what Real Life has.

After ther disaster I had with Moveable Type, I'm still with Blogger but want to make the switch to something i can maintain myself.

Also I woke up Yesterday with a huge pain on the right side of my lower back. Feels like someone just came in the middle of the night and punched me. Now today it feels just as bad if not worse. Although we got a pretty good laugh at work bout the idea that Ken(housemate) walked into my room thinking I was an attacker sleeping in my bed, and punched me in the back. But serously this shit hurts.

Also check out the new version of GROW, a very fun puzzle game, the new one is RPG themed, as opposed to Classic GROW. Eyemaze continues releasing some wierd, intelligent, and fun as hell little games and puzzles.

8.05.2005

Scrummy

Hello Ladies and Gentleman, Its me again back from the abyss I had a nice vacation with my beautiful Catherine, who tans very very well I must admit. I on the oter hand was red as a lobster after the first day. It was fun and relaxing. Now after being back for a week her parents went back to the beach, which leaves me and Cat at her ehouse for the week, i'll probably be spending most of my time here, because she has A/C, which I also do now also, but there isn't a cute girl living in my room, so her house beats it out. She making us a scrummy dinner of shrimps, steak and salad, I expect it to be quite delectable. I might get more in vacation details at another juncture, just wanted to check in. Later :-)