Hmmm. My iTunes installation is showing Trojan Horses? What the –? No time to work on it right now, but I may need to later on. Gotta have my tunes sooner or later.
UPDATE: Hrm. It’s my AV program, dammit. Fixed.
Abe Sapien: The Drowning (Dark Horse) [collects #1-5]
w. Mike Mignola; a. Jason Shawn Alexander
| Writing |  | New reader? |  |
| Art |  | Non-comics reader? | |
A first solo adventure for the watery member of Hellboy’s BPRD, “The Drowning” gives us some additional insight into Abe and his origin. Mignola’s moody horror works well as usual, but Alexander’s art is too stylish and mainstream; this book demands Mignola’s shadows and half-glimpsed symbols of madness. Decent book for any Hellboy fan, comics or movies.
Aetheric Mechanics (Avatar)
w. Warren Ellis; a. G. Pagliarani, C. Dreier
| Writing | | New reader? | |
| Art | | Non-comics reader? | |
One of the few items I have that was actually released as-is, a full Graphic Novella, Ellis plays here with steampunk-like alternate history, in which Brain wars with Ruritania and various Edwardian-tech devices escalate the cost of the conflict. Throw in some thinly-masked Holmes-Watson protagonists, some nature-of-reality play, and you get something that is entertaining and thought-provoking, as Ellis is wont to be, but more of a passing fancy than anything to rave eloquently about.
I had this problem, too, and my attempt to fix it, but saw it as part of a larger sequence of laptop problems. This morning, Vista was no longer recognized as genuine, and wouldn’t boot – hence a long, long reinstall.
Gah! And, yikes! A Blogathon nightmare worst-case — the machine won’t boot!
I’d be frenetic.