Day 663

Aka Saturday 24^th November 2018

Went for an exercise walk and walked 10.09km (6.3miles) in 1h51minutes, which took 12,589 steps and burnt 1,100 calories, it seems I've settled into a routine of exercise walks at the weekend, with ‘shopping’ walks during the week…

…read some comics:

‘Shanghai Red’ has been a great story about righting wrongs, revenge and what effect it can have on the person seeking revenge. Issues #4 and #5 conclude the series in grand scale, with some epic fights and heartache. Joshua Hixson, artist and colours, Christopher Sebela, script, Hassan Otssmane-Elhaou, letters, and Roman Stevens, colour flatting, have made a great series and the only bad thing or negative I can think of is that the series has concluded! 10/10.

I’m a big John Allison fan, he can perfectly balance laughs and emotions, hijinks and the kitchen sink and ‘By Night’ #5 and ‘Giant Days’ #44 show off his skills as a writer. Which are equally matched by the art teams on each book. In ‘By Night’ #5 (illustrated by Christine Larsen, coloured by Sarah Stern and lettered by Jim Campbell), as well as the fore mentioned laughs and emotions, we find out why Jane and Heather fell out, the consequences of entertaining humans in Otherworld and one of our cast betrays the rest. While in ‘Giant Days’ #44 (with art by Max Sarin, colours by Whitney Cogar and lettered by Jim Campbell) the Esther and Susan are celebrating/surviving Valentine’s Day (or Valembrines, as the more romantically challenged cast call it) and Daisy is dealing with a troublesome student. Both books are a joy to read and to say more would spoil your enjoyment of them. 9/10. 

In ‘The Wild Storm’ #18 we see IO and Skywatch start manoeuvres to take each other on, Lynch sets a human missile onto IO, the Authority starts to form, Michael Cray enters the picture and as this issue ends, we know that we are approached an end, the final chapters of this 24-issue novel. We know the players and what they can do and now we’re going to see them come together. Warren Ellis, writer, Jon Davis-Hunt, artist, Steve Buccellato, colourist, and Simon Bowland, letterer, have made a fabulous comic and slow-burn series. 8/10.

‘Rick and Morty’ #43 sees Rick and Morty face off against Dick and Farty, a Rick and Morty from a different dimension (written by Kyle Starks, illustrated by Sabrina Mati in collaboration with Juan Meza-Leon, coloured by Sarah Stern and lettered by Crank!) and discuss Bathorvian Penis Prisons (which are terrible places to be trapped) and continue their adventures in the Public Domain (written by Tini Howard, illustrated by Jarrett Williams, coloured by Sarah Stern and lettered by Crank!) and both teams do a great job in capturing the feel of the TV show. 7/10.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which takes us back to the sunny uplands of only having to cheat on one twenty-fourth of the clues (one out of 24), and that’s only because I went for ‘garland’ instead of ‘coronet’, but I did learn that a ‘coronet’ is a ‘circular floral head decoration’ or ‘garland’.