Day 787

Aka Thursday 28^th March 2019

Went for my Long Walk this morning and walked 10.05km (6.24miles) in 1 hour 50 minutes and 57 seconds, which burnt 1,100 calories and took 12,560 steps:

…and when I got back, some of my New Comic Book Day comics, which I’d ordered via eBay, had arrived:

‘Rick and Morty’ #48: another fun two story issue, in which Kyle Starks, writer, and Marc Ellerby, illustrator, tell the story of a cosmic powered Morty and Karla Pacheco, writer, and Ian McGinty, illustrator, tell the tale of Hemorrhage visiting Summer/Summer doing her best to avoid Hemorrhage! With colours by Sarah Stern and lettered by Crank! 6.5/10. 

‘The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion’ #6: a real jam-packed issue, by Gerard Way, writer, Gabriel Ba, artist, Nate Piekos, colorist, and Nick Filardi, letterer, where the Academy try to keep the city safe, keep the bad guys contained and not let them get out into the wider world and then take them down. While the bad guys are just going wild and doing bad guy things. An action filled spectacular issue. 8/10.

‘William Gibson’s Alien 3’ #5: brings the story to an end, but as with earlier issues it can be a little difficult to keep track of what is happening (although that might just be me!) and I still don’t like the xenomorph as a virus, especially as the resulting xenomorphs look to much like the hybrid from ‘Alien: Resurrection’, but there are some great action scenes that beautifully capture the kinetic-ness of the action and are very cinematic. So too is the ending, which captures the calmness and peacefulness of space (and the endings of ‘Alien’ and ‘Aliens’). The adaption from William Gibson’s story and art are by Johnnie Christmas, with color art by Tamra Bonvillain, and letters by Nate Piekos. 7/10.

…job searched and started, completed and submitted application for a Policy Adviser post at MOJ…another application done and submitted and I’m about at that point where I mostly expect to be rejected (again) and given very little feedback on what I did wrong/what I need to improve on…not that I’m bitter or anything!

…and I watched ‘The Best Of Dave Allen’, which brought back a lot of memories of being young and staying up late to watch Mr Allen on the Beeb, before going to bed.  For me a lot of the jokes still hold up, although there is a slight sexist edge to a couple of them (although nothing compared to what a lot of other comics were doing around the same time) and even when the jokes don’t land, it’s still enjoyable just listening to Mr Allen talk. There’s something about the Irish accent that just makes it nice to listen to, I guess it’s all down to the lilt 😊

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which goes well, very well indeed, as I only had to cheat on an eleventh of the clues (two out of 22). If I’d been a bit more thoughtful, I might have remembered that ‘not a sausage’ can mean nothing and have gotten the answer ‘zero’ and might have gone for ‘paternity suit’ instead of ‘paternity test’, it might have been a clean sweep!