Fables, Vol.1-2

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1

Just wanted something fun to read today and heard so much good things about this wacky new series based on a C-list Steve Dtiko hero brought up to date with a razor sharp wit and a cute squirrel side-kick!

Powers, Vol.1-3

Ms. Marvel, Vol.1: No Normal

Space Station 76

As a kid growing up in the seventies, I was exposed to just about every cheesy science fiction space show there was, and I’ll be darned if the Liv Tyler movie Space Station 76 didn’t take me right back to my childhood! With its plastic toy miniature special effects, gorgeous women decked out in go-go boots. big hair and false eyelashes and smooth easy-listening music piped throughout, this flick could have easily come out in 1976 and blended right in!

 

 So much of our youth was spent making up stories of us living lives aboard spaceships and being served Jetsons-esque food via computer screens that it was like watching our made up world come to life! They even had Liv Tyler playing a kind of “Asteroids” videogame, a game we loved playing at the local bowling alley, complete with its very basic one-line patterns, oh so much memories!

 Space Station76 tells the tale of a woman (Tyler) flying up to the station as the new assistant Pilot, (and the cause and effect she has upon the crew), but really the movie is more about the little things, Tyler in her Arboretum (think shades of Silent Running) relaxing, a greasy mechanic (Matt Bomer) slaving away in the bowels of the ship, or the stylish community mother (Kali Rocha) looking through a space-age viewmaster (!) for the latest hot 70’s fashions…This movie has made a world I’d just love to curl up in!

Primer

Finally got around to checking out PRIMER, a time-traveling movie that I was warned and warned and warned again of how confusing it would be, and still managed to be completely LOST at several points! When you’ve got one guy time traveling into the future and back, it’s easy enough to follow, but when you’ve got several people time jumping in and out at different and even sometimes over each other, it gets REALLY hard to remember which version of the characters you’re watching!

 Remember in Back to the Future Part II when you had Marty and friends running around in the foreground while in the background you had different timeline Marty and friends ducking in and out? Well, multiply that by 5 and add in lying, cheating and murder and you might BEGIN to imagine the chaos!

Strangely enough, the pacing is so slow and thoughtful I still managed to really enjoy the picture even as my head was beginning to hurt trying to keep up! This is one movie that you definitely have got to see a few times before you can really get a gaasan’t wait to see what nuances I’ll pick up the NEXT time I try and watch this one!

The Wicked+ The Divine, Vol.1: The Faust Act

While running to my local comic book store to see if SAGA had yet come out of their hiatus, I ran into my friend Shirley in the parking lot and when I told her I was on my way to the comic store, she told me her favorite series as one called THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, a story about the gods and their time on earth. "Like Mount Olympus kind of Gods?" I asked, but Shirl said that it was more like SANDMAN where these humans took the embodiment of the beings like Love, Death, etc. and interacted for a short time among the living til they perished.
 All I had to hear was the reference to Sandman, and I was TOTALLY on board, and HAD to see if the comic store had it! When I got there, I was thrilled to find that Wicked and Divine had just released its first trade paperback a few months ago and IMMEDIATELY snatched it up! When I took it home and read it, I was so blown away by how awesome it was, I not only made plans to sart collecting the individual issues from that point on, but went on ebay to buy each individual issue included in the TPB (the covers were so damn beautiful, each one featuring one member of the Gods) PS: It was a good thing they had  that Wicked and Divine trade when I went in, because I was to find out that SAGA would not be coming back for one more week!!! So lucky to find this to immerse myself in as I wait!

Y The Last Man (Complete Series)

One of the greatest comic cook series of all time, Y: The Last Man tells the tale of Yorick, the supposed "last man" on earth and the trials and tribulations he and his pet monkey through. The series that introduced me to the fantastic art of Pia Guerra and the insanely awesome writing of Brian K  Vaughan!