Aka Sunday 13th January 2019
Back to my morning exercise walk (I walked a total of 9.89km
(or 6.15miles) in 1hour 49minutes and 15seconds, which took 12,364 steps and
burnt 1,100 calories)…
…and on the way home I picked up my lottery winnings, all
£2.90 of it!…
…and when I got home, I read ‘My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies’, which is written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips.
Which tells the story of Ellie, who has been sent to rehab, kinda against her
will, where she falls for a fellow patient. Together they escape the rehab
centre and go on a journey to escape not just the rehab centre, but also their lives
(or how they imagine their future lives). Or do they?
‘My Heroes Have…’ is set
in the ‘Criminal’ universe and if you’re familiar with that world, you’re know
that everything is not as is seems (and the only thing I didn’t like about this
story is that I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to working out that all is not as
it seems or if the ending was meant to be a surprise). As with previous ‘Criminal’
stories ‘My Heroes Have…’ is expertly written and illustrated and draws you in,
until you get to the last page and realise that the last hour has just flown by.
9/10.
…and finished watching the last of Season Two of ‘Slasher’,
which I’ve really enjoyed. Season One is set in a small American town, which is
terrorised by the "Executioner" who is killing people with shady pasts,
which relate to the seven deadly sins, with executions relating to punishments
for the seven deadly sins. The story focus on Sarah Bennett who, with her husband
Dylan, moves back to her hometown and her old house, in which her parents were
killed. As Sarah investigates her parent’s past, she discovers hidden secrets
and links to the modern-day murders.
Season Two is a completely new story with
new characters, who have a terrible shared secret from their time as summer
camp counsellors, that they killed a fellow counsellor. The story centres on
they attempt to prevent the secret been found out, but this is complicated by the
campsite being sold to a self-help community and the winter weather.
Both seasons are well acted, directed, set designed, etc and
well written, possibly because they are only eight episodes long and there is
no need to drag anything out. Which means that there is very little fat to the
stories, but plenty of time to flesh out the characters before they are
murdered. Both seasons do a good job of using the tropes of their horror
sub-type (a lone killer terrorising a small town and evading the police at will
& Ten Little Indians/stuck in a remote location and being whittled down one
by one) without straying into parody and make you care about the characters. Can't wait to see what they do with Season Three.
8/10.
…and finally, there was a Tweeter meme going round where you
create a Rob Liefeld character based on your initials:
And my initials gave birth to ICE CLAW ("inked" and "raw" pencils):
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