Day 662

Aka Friday 23^rd November 2018

Today I read some comics:

‘Nancy Drew’ #5 is a nice conclusion to the mystery of Deadman’s Cliff, as we get the last of the puzzle pieces and Nancy & friends dodge peril and catch the bad guy. A great, fun comic by Kelly Thompson, Jenn St-Onge, Triona Farrell and Ariana Maher, which ends on a cliff-hanger nicely setting up the next story arc. 8/10.

‘Cemetery Beach’ is by the team behind ‘Trees’, Warren Ellis and Jason Howard (and Fonografiks on letters), so you kinda know what to expect, excellent comics. In ‘Cemetery Beach’ #2 and #3 the adventure continues, with some great page layouts. We learn a little more about the history of the secret off-world colony, amidst loads of action and explosions and bullets flying all over the place. 9/10.

In ‘Kaijumax Season Four’ #3 Zander Cannon (with Jason Fischer on color assists) slowly ratchets up the tensions, as we see friendships tested, people making choices that will come back to haunt them or their past decisions continuing to haunt them. A really enjoyable issue that maintains the high standards of previous issues. 9/10. 

…my copies of James O’Brien’s ‘How To Be Right…In A World Gone Wrong’ and ‘Cunk On Everything’ by Philomena Cunk (who is portrayed Diane Morgan, although the book is credited to Charlie Brooker, Jason Hazeley, Joel Morris and Ben Caudell) arrived, my first Amazon purchases since 22^nd August 2018, but they were only £4 each and you can’t say no to bargains like that…I’ll just have to buy extra books from a local bookshop to make up for it…

…I also got a job rejection, so I made chicken and stuffing and cranberry baps as comfort food to help soften the blow… 

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which starts the journey out of these gloomy downlands and back into the sunny uplands as I only had to cheat on a fifth of the clues (five out of 24). If I’d taken a little bit more time, I probably would have gotten most of those five, but I did re-learn that ‘Urdu’ is the ‘official language of Pakistan’.