Day 786

Aka Wednesday 27^th March 2019

A relatively quiet day today, I started, completed and submitted an application for post of 'Project Support Officer' at a NHS Foundation Trust, so spent a lot of today writing and re-writing about how great I am and trying to show how my past experience in a different job fits in with this job…

…then I read:

‘Kaijumax Season 4’ #5 starts off relatively quiet and character based, the Warden, Shui Bao, and the other members of the Megaboard of Directors, in the form of Celestial Guardian, tour the prison, and Jin-Wook Jeong resists getting in deeper with the prison gangs. But things soon heat up as Goat seems to get one of the Directors under her control/control of the black goo and Jin-Wook pays a high price for taking his stand. Mr Cannon does a great job of making his characters real, regardless of how extraordinary a character may be, they are real emotions and motivations behind their behaviours and that they have real lives. There is also a real sense of things about to come to a head, the quiet before the storm, that all the secrets and plotting is about to come to a head. 9/10. And I spotted Miss Haversham!:

And talking of things building to a head (after all there are only three more issues left) ‘The Wild Storm’ #21 sees Jenny Sparks rallying her troops, while Skywatch and IO are circling each other in ever decreasing circles, getting closer and closer to fighting each other in the daylight, no longer hiding in the shadows. As this is a quiet before the storm (excuse the ‘pun’!) issue (by Warren Ellis, writer, Jon Davis-Hunt, artist, Steve Buccellato, colorist, and Simon Bowland, letterer) most of the action is verbal, setting out the stakes for the characters and the world, a kinda ‘St Crispin's Day speech’ issue, although, after recent issues, I did slightly miss a bit of old ultraviolence! 8/10. 

‘Firefly: Bad Company’ #1 focuses on ‘Saffron’, who, having been captured by the Unificators is telling them her origin story…or is she? While the story is very plausible, it is also pretty standard – poor young girl yearns to escape a life of poverty, experiences pain and loss, but finally gets her shot and grabs it – but it could all be a yarn to buy her time to escape. Josh Lee Gordon, writer, Francesso Mortarino (with inks by Vincenzo Federici), Giuseppe Cafaro and Moy R, illustrators, Gabriel Cassata, colours, and Ed Dukeshire, letterer, have created a nice ‘Firefly’ story which shows what life is like for ordinary people in the ‘verse and how life is like on an Alliance world, something that we’ve only seen in glimpses in the TV show and the other comics. 7/10.  

…and my copy of ‘Jesusfreak’ arrived in the post (and it looks great):

 

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which went a tad worse than yesterday’s crossword, as I had to cheat on a fifth of the clues (five out of 24). I did learn that a ‘Chesterfield’ is a ‘well-padded sofa with two arms and a back’, that ‘Baku’ is the ‘capital of Azerbaijan’ and that ‘Chekhov’ was ‘The Seagull author’, but I should have gotten ‘snout’ from ‘tobacco – hooter’, must re-watch Porridge to get back up to scratch with prison slang…