Week in Geek

I've had a fairly slow week, but the snow is finally letting up, so perhaps this one will be a little more active. I did get to have some friends over on Saturday, and we went through Zombieland, and then watched some YouTube videos, courtesy of my Blu-Ray player's internet connectivity.

I don't think Dragonball Z Abridged will ever stop being funny.

Maybe this week I can start doing my Silver Age Green Lantern discussions.

New Comics Day

Not a bad haul this week!

Hack/Slash #29
Angel #30
The Incredibles #5
Incorruptible #3
Guardians of the Galaxy #23
The Incredible Hercules #141
Invincible #70
Azrael #5
Superman/Batman #69
Magog #6
Outsiders #27
Batman : Streets of Gotham #9
Supergirl #50
Batman #696
Power Girl #9
Justice League of America #42
Blackest Night : Flash #3
Green Lantern #51

And the new volume of the Starman Omnibus!

Week in Geek

Currently trying to diagnose an odd, intermittent issue with the new computer - I suspect it may be related to heat or vibration because of the desk enclosure it sits in, but I do see scattered similar reports about Windows 7 online, so .. it will require further investigation.

The roads were finally decent this weekend, so I got to go out and about to do a little toy hunting - unsuccessfully seeking the new Marvel Universe Secret Wars Two-Packs.

On Saturday, my friend Eric and I spent a little time watching the Venture Brothers, and then a horrible ripoff movie called 'The Terminators', mocking it soundly. Good times.

And I spent some time today watching Star Trek - 'Whom Gods Destroy' featuring Yvonne Craig as a psychotic Orion slave girl. Very nice.

New Comics Day

Managed to get out to the comic store despite the snow, this evening. Whew.

• Invincible Presents : Atom Eve and Rex Splode #3
• JSA All-Stars #3
• Titans #22
• The Shield #6
• Green Arrow and Black Canary #29
• R.E.B.E.L.S. #13
• Batgirl #7
• Action Comics #886
• Batman and Robin #8
• Booster Gold #29
• Secret Six #18
• Adventure Comics #7
• Sci-Fi and Fantasy Illustrated #1

That's it!

Week in Geek

Star Trek Online is good. Not a home run, but a solid triple. The space combat is everything it should be, and the ground-based away team combat is.. probably about as good as it can be. I die fairly frequently.

The massive snow this weekend motivated me to try to install the old Command and Conquer games on my previous PC, a decent little Windows XP box. My recent purchase of a new PC proved even more fortuitous than I had believed, because while I was working on C&C the XP Box's hard drive died.

Well, it's not dead, but it's in a vegetative state. Played around with the cables, connected it to different spots - the best I can manage is that sometimes, the drive is readable, and most often, it is not. Fortunately, I got almost all the data off of that drive, but it's still disappointing. I threw in an even older hard drive I had laying around and reinstalled XP, leaving the bad one in as a secondary drive - I may try to get a few more things off it if it comes up again.

New Comics Day

More Blackest Night fun!

• Cinderella : From Fabletown With Love #4
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer #32
• Red Tornado #6
• Doom Patrol #7
• Red Robin #9
• The Great Ten #4
• Justice Society of America Annual #2
• Superman : World of New Krypton #12
• Blackest Night : Wonder Woman #3
• The Question #37

Okay, the Metal Men backup in Doom Patrol will be sorely missed.

Week in Geek

This week's theme was retro-gaming. I commented to some friends that I was amused that the first thing I did after getting a blazing-fast new PC was to install the oldest games I could find on it. Command and Conquer, C&C Red Alert, and C&C Tiberian Sun won't run, even in the XP Virtual Machine - might be out of luck on those. But I did lose many hours to Age of Empires 1 and 2.

I also signed up at Steam to take advantage of a weekend sale - all five X-Com games for a whopping $2.

Not to be outdone, City of Heroes has started to claim more of my time again - though with the advent of Star Trek Online this week, that may change.

On an entirely different retro-gaming front, I may have agreed to participate in a first-edition AD&D game. I'm not sure, I may have blacked out.