Hey, Where'd I Go?

-Hmm, I haven't updated in a couple days. Let's see . . .

-Saturday, went with Bey/buxom_bey to see The Incredibles, which (due to book-writing busy-ness), I hadn't seen yet. Loved it. It's definitely one of my Top 5 Favorite Superhero Movies, up there with Superman 1, X-Men 2, and Spider-Man 1. I was particularly impressed by the character of Elasti-Girl, who we first see as an excellent mom . . . and then we get to see her kickin' serious @$$ as a superhero. She should be an inspiration to moms everywhere.

-One quirk I noticed was that three of the four Incredibles had the same powers as three members of the Fantastic Four (Mr. Incredible, Thing: strength; Elasti-Girl, Mr. Fantastic: stretching; Violet, Invisible Woman: invisibility and force-fields). And the fourth members (Dash, Human Torch), while they have different powers, are both the young hot-heads of the group. It would be interesting to know how the Incredibles' powers were selected. I suspect that when the FF movie comes out this summer some people are going to need to be briefed on which came first.

-Been thinking about the FF movie, too. I kinda hope they don't do it as an origin story. The Fantastic Four work well as an established group, who have been doing the supers thing for years. And, given the superhero-literacy of the modern movie-going audience (a literacy The Incredibles exploits quite well), you could get away with setting the movie ten years into the FF's career. Hmm, I might open the movie with a black-n-white sequence covering the FF's initial space flight, from Ben Grimm's point of view, up to the moment when they start getting their powers. We end the B&W sequence with Grimm watching his hand grow and turn rocky . . . then he wakes up. It was a dream/memory. He gets out of bed, in his current orange-and-rocky form, we see him go through his normal morning routine of fuzzy robe, brushing teeth, etc., playing up the contrast between his appearance and the normalcy of his routine . . . and then he walks out of his apartment onto the main floor of the Baxter Building, which is filled with portals to alien dimensions, fantastic devices, weird energy matrices, etc.

-Hmm, oh yes, back to me. Lovely date with Bey, then on Sunday I played in my D&D game for the first time in a couple months (since the book began consuming my life). My character, Laios, is just starting to be an effective ranger, and just starting to make a difference in combat. A couple more levels, and he'll be a significant player in the party's combat dynamics. (Assuming I don't replace him with the warforged rogue I've been fantasizing about . . . )

-And today, yes, I will be at the Diesel.

Doing The Math

-I store my comics in record cubes. Each cube is something over a foot square, and holds about 150 issues (probably a little more). The current cube-count is [goes into stacks and takes notes] 6+6+18+34 = 64.

-So, I have around 10,000 individual issues of comics. Not including 14 shelf-feet of hardcover and trade paperback collections.

-Note to self: I am a tremendous geek.