Day 743

Aka Tuesday 12^th February 2019

Went for a morning constitutional, aka my long walk to get the newspaper, and managed to walk 10.14km (6.30 miles), in 1 hour 52 minutes and 34 seconds, which burnt through 1,100 calories and took 12,712 steps…

…then I worked on, completed and submitted a new job application…and then I read:

‘Snotgirl’ #12: LA is in a heat wave and Snotgirl’s sister turns up and causes drama in Lottie’s life and the mystery of Coolgirl/Caroline deepens. If you described Snotgirl to me and asked if it’d be something I’d want to read (while leaving out that it’s written by the guy who wrote 'Scott Pilgrim') I’d say ‘Nah’, but because I’d really enjoyed Scott Pilgrim I gave it a chance and Bryan Lee O’Malley & Leslie Hung have none a top-notch job of creating characters and a world that draws you into their story. 8/10.

‘Fight Club 3’ #1: Lots of set-up, which you kinda expect for a first issue (what’s up with the frame and the possible Nazi guy? What is the ‘Rize Or Die’ group up to now? Have their goals changed? And what do they want with Balthazar/Tyler?) in a beautifully illustrated issue. I really, really like ‘Fight Club’ (both the book and the film and how the themes they tackle, and how they approach them, change on how you view them. When I was young I enjoyed the surface read of ‘Fight Club’ and how great it would be to be Tyler and stick it to the man, now I’m older I see the problems with this and lean more towards Jack, while recognising the problems with that and that Marla is probably the “sensible” one) and I can’t really, objectively judge the comic as it’s just nice to be back in that world. A total biased 10/10.

‘Wyrd’ #1: Another first issue and a great introduction to Wyrd and his world. There is a largeish Warren Ellis influence, with Wyrd almost being a male Jenny Sparks by way of John Constantine, but they is enough of Curt Pires and Antonio Fuso voice(s) coming through that it doesn’t feel like a rip-off, (to keep the Ellis references going it’s kinda like how Apollo and Midnighter are Superman and Batman analogues, but are original/different enough not to be direct rip-offs/copies) and I’m interested/intrigued enough to come back for the  next three issues. 9/10.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which goes in a similar vein as yesterday’s crossword as I need to cheat on a fifth of the clues (six out of 25). I should have gotten ‘Beagle’, ‘foment’ and ‘aroused’, but geography and wine aren’t in my wheelhouse, so I wouldn’t have gotten ‘Rioja’ or ‘Atacama’ in a thousand years of guessing and I might have gotten the answer to ‘21’, if I’d known it was a critic clue/reference to clue 21!, but aside from those six, the rest of the answers came easily enough.