Of Time and Other Stuff

A short family vacation followed by a rushed family trip followed by mass confusion leads to nearly three weeks without a post, so I will do some random musing and promise to do better tomorrow.

1. I like Thor better than nearly everyone I have read on the web. I grant that it's slow, and I'll share many of the complaints about issue 1. Issue 2, however, had great art. I thought that the human reaction to Thor rebuilding Asgard and the country boys driving off with some of Asgard's gold was well worth the price.
2. I just finished reading Countdown 50-43 and it seems to be a jumbled mess designed to give DC the opportunity to kill off characters.
3. Speaking of messes, I'm getting tired of reading books like Countdown or WW Hulk or and other titles that are tied into a major crossover and being confused because I can't afford to buy the whole stinking line of both Marvel and DC.
4. People need to start seeing the difference between beefcake or cheesecake and porn. Everytime there's a provocative drawing of some character, the comics blogosphere seems to go nuts. So far the only warrented eruption of outrage has been the Heroes for Hire #13 cover.
5. Dynamo 5, The Lone Ranger (Dynamite) and Catwoman are becoming must reads.
6. Why did Top Cow need a joint project with Marvel to introduce their First Born story?

Enough for now.