I’d planned to have at least one of these out a week, every Wednesday in fact. Obviously this didn’t go as planned this week. For once I wasn’t distracted by organising my digital collection, that’s mostly done for Marvel. I was distracted because I got really into a rather long series of books and couldn’t pull myself away. I’d hoped to get Avengers Disassembled finished this week and push (backwards chronologically) onto Grant Morrison’s New X-Men run or onto the comics that take place between Avengers Disassembled and Civil War. That didn’t happen. I was going to post this Thursday but held of thinking I’d read more. That also didn’t happen. But here’s what I thought of what I did get read.
Read MoreMick vs The Marvel Universe – 03 – Continuity is the fire in which we burn
Sorting continued after last weeks post. I got it all more or less done by Sunday night. This meant I could now take full advantage of shared reading lists. In short I can download the reading list for an event or comic that someone else has made and Comic Rack populates it using the UUID of the individual issues from Comic Vine’s metadata. Cool, all good so far. But…
Read MoreMick vs The Marvel Universe – 02 – Logistics is the ball and chain of comic book reading
Right so here we go. As I mentioned I’ll be starting my return to the Marvel comic universe with Spider-Man specifically The Amazing Spider-Man #546. This follows on from the controversial One More Day storyline which followed on from the controversial (or just plain shit) Civil War crossover event. That’s enough background, lets see how it turned out.
I’m not going to do an issue by issue breakdown. I’ll likely briefly summarise major events, react to stuff I liked and, of course, complain about stuff I did not. There will almost certainly be spoilers. Well lets get to it.
Or not.
Read MoreMick vs The Marvel Universe – 01 – Shots fired
I wrote the first draft of this back in 2014 and then updated it in 2016. But both times I never actually followed through. Will I this time? Who knows. I will at least post it this time at least.
I havent read American comics in quite some time. Specifically since March 2011, so eleven years. But recent reading around comics as well as someone asking me for recommendations on what Marvel comics to read has got me interested in diving back into them.
Read MoreA few thoughts on the survival game genre
I’ve been Goldilocksing my way through survival games and I think perhaps the genre is not for me. Subnautica is about the only one I enjoyed. I think my main problem with the genre is a problem with the central drive of the games, the survival.
Continue ReadingDisco Elysium – My Brief Thoughts
I finished Disco Elysium yesterday and wanted to have a bit of a think about it before putting my pen to paper as it were. I’ve tried to keep it brief but in the interest of even further brevity. It’s very good but has some big flaws. I’d very much recommend checking it out.
CONTINUE READINg…Devil May Cry 5 – My Brief Thoughts
Well its been nearly a year to the day since I posted anything on my blog. I don’t really have anything to say but I might as well get some use out of it and my brief thoughts upon completing Devil May Cry 5 are a bit long for twitter. So here we are.
CONTINUE READINg…Resonance and resurrection Or The things I’ll do for fifty quid
So if you’ve been following me on social media, which shouldn’t be hard as I’m consciously trying to reign in my use of it, you may have seen me waxing lyrical on my urge to buy Resonance of Fate HD. Basically the crux of my issue being that I don’t want to pay full price for a remaster of a game I’ve already played and which I think will hit deep discount in a month or two. Last Thursday the irresistible voice of my inner child finally broke me and I have in to “I want it now!” Setting the game to download I went to bed.
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My thoughts on How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom
I was originally going to preface this with a lead in explaining the context and so on but I want to write something longer on that context so I’m not going to repeat myself. So, over the last few days I read a series of light novels, seven of an ongoing series, and I want to lay out my thoughts on them. Continue reading…
Hexcrawl High: Adventurus Interrptus
Only the strongest of campaigns can weather the storm of Christmas and New Year breaks and sadly mine ran aground on the jagged rocks of too long a break and D&D fatigue. Which is a pity as I think the lost city the PC’s were about to reach would have been pretty fun. Continue reading…