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Umbrella Academy

  
  

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Old dear. Gin. Problems
05:31 / 06.01.08
Way's about 30, Granny. Time for him to put down those vanilla slices get a real job.

He does look a little weathered in some of the photos, it's true.

But who could begrudge him another album/world tour (in which he really indulges himself, no messing about with all that 'emo' nonsense this time) before he settles down to the life of an artiste who is unconcerned by the tawdry shackles of commerce. He could have pints of locally-sourced brown ale with Alan Moore; they could have a salon. The pair of them might be like old school gods, dressed in leather, silver and purple, observing with amused disinterest the likes of Peter Milligan, Warren Ellis and George, indeed, sailing on by at, say, the San Fran Comicon

'Dude, that must be, like, negative. Having to try and explain away all this crap about Batman's ass ...'

'They are unenlightened souls, my friend, feasting on the rotten corpse of the industry.'

'I guess they are. Thank god ...'

'Can I stop you there, Gerard?'

'Sorry?'

'When you talk about 'God', Gerard, shouldn't you be using the plural of the noun?'

'I ...'

'THERE ARE MANY GODS!'

'Yeah. I'm not sure if I believe in anything personally, but ...'

'THERE ARE MANY GODS!'

'All right ... Christ, man ...'

'Ah yes, Christ, the son of man; are you familiar with the Gnostic gospels?'

'Yeah. Shall I ... sorry, shall I get that guy in a Star Trek t-shirt to get another round in?'

'Why not? I may even (laughs heartily) tell you about my novel!'

'Cool ... But Alan, the crowd used to seem more handsome when I was a singer, you know?'

'Welcome, Gerard, to the life of the mind.'
 
 
Our Lady Won't Do That Again
(prev. Our Lady in Her Haus)
11:01 / 06.01.08
This is really not working for me as a monthly, I'll stick with it for the rest of this series but I think with any future stories I'll wait for the trades.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
(prev. Papers Loves Patsy Walker)
01:49 / 25.01.08
Fifth issue -- featuring Number Five on the cover, of course -- came out at some point, but I've just noticed and picked it up today (after having a rather lovely back-scrub morning spa treatment), and quite enjoyed it in spite of its flaws. I really can't imagine that this story is going to conclude in any really satisfactory way with next issue.

More to come when I'm home from work and have time to pore over the text, darlings.
 
 
Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar
(prev. Papers Loves Patsy Walker)
05:18 / 22.02.08
The final issue of Series One -- "Finale, or Brothers and Sisters, I am an Atomic Bomb" -- is out this week, and so this first season or whatever is over, done, finished. How do we all feel, sitting in the wreckage with debris settling just so in our hair?

And, seriously, are all the subtitles better than the titles when it comes right down to it? Finale just lacks something, even with the musical reference.

The pseudo-incestual thing is still something that could have been played with more, because it felt a bit weak as it stood. And almost embarassingly paired off, actually.

I miss Pogo. I was really unsure of him at first, but he rose up to be the Father Figure that Hargeeves never was, yeah?

Both female characters are incapacitated despite how cool both of them are or could be -- will they be around in the next series? Or we have to make due with the Umbrella Academy as a boys' school? At least neither were taken off the board in (a) a necessarily permanent fashion or (b) in any kind of a sexual fashion.

What's Number Five's deal? I mean, he's supposed to just be a time-traveller, right? How exactly does he manage to punch through people's heads like a wee li'l Jack Hawksmoor?

The temporal police angle hasn't been cleared up, so that damn well better be the thing for the second series.

The deus ex machina eleventh hour rescue thing gets a pass purely for being so bug-eyed WHATTAFUCK, even if I'm a little peeved that refers back to an utterly dull text page addition from the first issue.

The White Violin and her musicians are great villains -- as said above, shit, I hope she's around for Series 2 in some capacity.

Seance is probably my favourite, purely because he's having fun -- even in the shitty bits, even when Number Five's all crazy-like and people are dying. It just clicked now, the writing on his hands and the emblem -- he's a ouji board. Cute.

Sonics moving through space? Hah?

Ironic closure. Meh, but a nice final page.

I expect Series 2 to have some strong storytelling, but on the whole I enjoyed the Apocalypse Suite -- in spite of itself, in some places.
 
  

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