Tuesday was the last day of Lockdown II, and then things were back to normal, except we moved from Tier 2 to Tier 3, although I couldn’t see any change in how people behaved, it’s like they’re forgetting about social distancing and hand washing. It also meant I had plenty of comics to pick up on New Comic Book Day:
…I also got the alternative cover for ’Wicked Things’ #6 through the post:
…also coming through the post was my copy of ’Hell In Stalingrad’, along with a patch and some lovely art prints:
…I also got this months ‘Record Collector’, mostly for the Cosmic Funk article and Fatboy Slim and Keith Richards interviews:
…went for a Long Walk on Saturday:
…and read a few comics (with quick reviews as I’m still catching up):
‘That Texas Blood’ #5 and #6, which concludes the first multi issue storyline in a gritty, doomed climax. 7/10.
‘Moonshine’ #22, which concludes it’s latest storyline, with the very bad guys getting their just desserts, the really bad girl getting set up and our hapless hirsute lead getting back on his feet a little and possibly planning a comeback? 7/10.
‘John Constantine, Hellblazer’ #12, which ends the series, tying up most of the threads (with a few left for a hoped for second season or for future writers to use) in a dramatic showdown between John and John, which has big consequences. 10/10.
‘Big Girls’ #4, the action continues and the intrigue deepens. 7/10.
‘Savage Dragon’ #254, things look very dark for Malcolm Dragon as the villains seem to be triumphant. 7/10.
‘The Department of Truth’ #3, is a dark tale of “crisis actors” and gun control. Reminiscent of peak Alan Moore ‘Swamp Thing’. 8/10.
‘Old Head’ by Kyle Starks (everything but the colours) and Chris Schweizer (the colours), a telling of the final fate of Dracula at the hands of a retired basketball player (Nash Gliven aka Old Head) or is it? ‘old Head’ is a beautiful story that appears to be a straight up horror comedy (and there is plenty of horror and comedy), but is also very heartfelt, addressing issues of legacy, family and the difficulties of growing old. A perfect book that leaves you wanting more, while giving you a complete, satisfying story. 10/10.
…and I did this week’s G2 Crosswords:
…Monday’s crossword gets the week off to a near perfect start as we only had to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 24). The little grey cells took their time with the clues and it more or less paid off, although we did guess that an ‘aisle’ is ‘part of a church, alongside the nave’, but in a d’oh! move we dismissed it <shaky head emoji>…
…things continue to go pretty well with Tuesday’s crossword as we only had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 24). And those three we just didn’t know, although we could have guessed that ‘Apollo’ was the ‘handsome Greek god, son of Zeus and Leto’, so we learnt that ‘Clotho’ is ‘one of the Three Fates in Greek mythology’ and that ‘Reims’ is a ‘city of north-east France, “capital” of the Champagne wine region’…
…Wednesday’s crossword went even better, we only had to cheat on one of the 21 clues. The little grey cells really powered their way through the clues. Only stumbling on ‘French region of many dormant volcanoes, capital Clermont-Ferrand’, which we learnt is ‘Auvergne’…
…and Thursday’s crossword goes a tad betterer, as out of the 23 clues we only had to cheat on one, woo hoo, and we learnt that the ‘Doldrums’ are a ‘belt of calms and light winds in the Atlantic and Pacific…
…and we’ve fallen back to Earth with having to cheat on a quarter of the clues (five out of 21) for Fridays crossword. We just couldn’t get a handle on the grid, it was a bit of a slog and we missed some obvious answers (like ‘instead’ from ‘as an alternative’), but we did learn that ‘Skegness’ is in Lincolnshire and that ‘Levant’ is the ‘old term for what is now Lebanon, Syria and Israel’...
…and Saturday’s crossword ends the week on a highish note, as we only had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 23). This one was a bit of a slog, but we had good luck, like I did not know that ‘Piedmont’ is a ‘North-west Italian region’, but I had the intersecting letters and just educationally guessed the right letters that went round them, e.g. I had ‘o_t’ at the end and a lot of the time that a ‘n’ goes in between the ‘o’ and ‘t’. And we learnt that the ‘Nyala’ is a ‘spiral-horned South African antelope…
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