It's kinda funny: I know that the e-mails at the top are closer to now than those lower down. And, yet, as tonight, when the topmost are infuriating, it helps immensely that the older ones are blatantly complimentary and fine. Moreso than it would in the other direction.

And, yeah, the scotch is seriously nice, tonight.

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06:15 / 15.08.07

Found some sake in the fridge. I prefer it hot, but there's not enough left to bother heating it. I'll sip a while as I continue the monster's ablutions and consider writing in my notebook for a spell. Maybe something unrelated to the story, something to clear my head out.

Keggers From The Crypt

06:20 / 15.08.07

ugh.. the wine sucks.
I want a big bottle of something I'll regret tomorrow.

Papess

06:25 / 15.08.07

I am tired, and I haven't been much fun tonight. Lateshifts make me hungry and want to drink. So I must turn in instead.

Good night peoples!

Keggers From The Crypt

06:26 / 15.08.07

G'night M.O.

Deculture Decedent

06:26 / 15.08.07

Has anyone actually worked out why a nighttime alcohol delivery truck would be bad? Keep the drivers off the stuff until they're off-shift, a limit to how much can be ordered, but other than that, where's the fear?

I'm afraid legally-enforced last-calls and sales-cut-off hours are lost on me, as well. If I wanted a drink at noon, I wouldn't have slept until three, would I?

Keggers From The Crypt

06:31 / 15.08.07

I like what your saying DN. I will be voting for you.

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06:34 / 15.08.07

I'm fairly certain there's a liquor delivery business in town, actually. I've never had to use it, it though. Similarly, there's a couple designated driver services to be found.

Sake is good, and the computer seems more functional. I'm going to give my WP another go to see if it'll stay open.

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06:38 / 15.08.07

Seems to be working again. The monster seems calmer now.

Keggers From The Crypt

06:39 / 15.08.07

Well gang, I think Im going to call it a night. so good night

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06:41 / 15.08.07

Night, Veng. Enjoy your wine.

Deculture Decedent

06:46 / 15.08.07

Night.

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06:50 / 15.08.07

Feeling any better, Dec?

Deculture Decedent

06:54 / 15.08.07

Wooh! Surprisingly, yeah, I am. Just got another nice phonecall to set some things at ease, and well, now that the sun's gone down it's coming to be a pretty nice day.

The Ringo-drawn comics were a good idea, I think.

Deculture Decedent

06:55 / 15.08.07

I'd be surprised to hear anybody on this hemisphere was at the top of their game, yesterday. Officially Zombie Day or something.

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06:55 / 15.08.07

I keep ending up on blogs where people are talking about him. It still fires a sad little bullet into me, thinking about how much I loved his run on the Flash when I was a kid. Up with Alan Davis, he was one of the first artists I ever really *noticed*.

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06:57 / 15.08.07

Zombie Day!

Deculture Decedent

07:02 / 15.08.07

There's just always this seemingly-effortless thoughtfulness put into his character-(re)designs for me. No knife-hands to be cool or extra veins popping everywhere to improve his, say, Sue Storm, and yet, he's not using her standard face or body design, either. Half-logical physical extrapolations and half engineered-for-emotional-impact stuff.

And I want to know what the project with Ellis was. They seem like they'd gel well together.

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07:05 / 15.08.07

I could see him calming some of Ellis's ticks.

Deculture Decedent

07:06 / 15.08.07

Yeah, it'd have to be one of those sentimental Ellis pieces, not the dog genitals and defecation screeds. But, really, I'd rather read more of the sentimental.

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07:11 / 15.08.07

Which is why I think that Apparat oneshot he did with McCubbin -- Quit City -- is one of my favourite things that Ellis has done. That and Ocean for having some more of that introspection, though the payoff for Ocean dropped the ball a little bit and wasn't as well-paced as his other stuff.

Deculture Decedent

07:14 / 15.08.07

Quit City was really good.

I came onto Ellis early enough I still remember some of his anti-superhero moments, the issues where everyone just talks, drinks, and maybe end up snogging. Which is incredibly sweet in a punching-book, but he seems to have tried to ignore those in more recent years.

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07:18 / 15.08.07

I am, in general, fond of his Apparat stuff. Some of them didn't turn out quite as well, mostly because of the artists he chose, but I liked that they ran the gamut from sentimental to more grotesque. A couple of them would have suited colour versus black and white, though.

Deculture Decedent

07:28 / 15.08.07

I think it was just really nice to see something like the Apparat books happen. In terms of high-concept, execution, and the desire to hit a broad spectrum.

It always gets me to think how many interests Ellis and someone like Chuck Dixon have in common (older guy/young woman dynamic, punches in the brain, bitter veteran, dangerous flirtygirls, political awareness of a very focused sort, old pulps and seventies cop shows) and yet, y'know, you look at something like the Apparat books or even a random spread of Transmet, Wolfskin and the half-life issue of Planetary and Dixon's never going to do that.

Similarly, googling for Wieringo artwork garners a number of Frank Cho illustrations, weirdly, and wow, he likes to think pencilling the word 'whore' onto his boards is funny, doesn't he? Somehow, I can't see Wieringo doing that.

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07:40 / 15.08.07

The half-life issue was brilliant. As was the Jack Carter one, with its quiet funeral attended by Vertigo rejects.

Deculture Decedent

07:49 / 15.08.07

It makes me kinda sad that the some of the later issues are so hard to find the point to. The 'this still has relevance' material. The clip show issue. What, now? Why?

I wasn't asking 'why?' back in the day, even if I didn't know where the over-arching was headed.

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07:56 / 15.08.07

I think he got bored. I think he set himself up and then got bored with what he was doing. He lost the jazz.

Deculture Decedent

08:03 / 15.08.07

Probably. Of course, for financial purposes, finishing up is likely a good idea, but maybe putting things off for a few years or a decade ain't such a bad idea. Doesn't seem to have hurt some long-running series back-sales. CLAMP's X still has over a dozen TPBs in print in English, or Rumble Girls, Urusei Yatsura.

Maybe that last issue will salvage it all and make everything flowers and whisky and near-dawn moonlight. Who knows.

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08:06 / 15.08.07

I think I want to read those Apparats tonight. Think I'll go to bed and do that now. We should resurrect that thread in the comics and hit them again, maybe? In between talking about Lois and her weird apron or the new Superman replacements?

Deculture Decedent

08:09 / 15.08.07

I'm all for giving Lois' apron a thread to itself, too, but yeah sounds like a plan.

Have a time, Papers.

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