Beyond My Geeky Life

So, it's been over two months since I last wrote a blog post here. Been real busy, as life can get a little crazy at times. While I would love to write about some geeky stuff (Like how great Spider-Man: Far From Home was, go see it. Spidey is still the greatest superhero ever.) this post is going to be outright selling myself, as I have been working on a few projects. I have self published The Cost of Leveling up. Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VMCDV5L/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 Print: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1082287083/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p2_i10 Then I am working on finishing up a much bigger project called 'A Day at Georgie and Armand's Place'. Here are sketches of the title characters. There will be a lot more concerning this book coming soon. Hopefully next post will be back to talking geeky stuff as normal.

I am already getting tired of the TV show Flash and how overpowered the main character is. The character moments and just more and more inadequate to offset the bad logic and science they keep using. As far as I can figure, according to the show, running really really fast can give you just about any powers you can imagine. And it would help if they could be consistent, but I already figure that was asking too much.  Rarely are such shows able to keep the powers working the same throughout, as they get altered as needed for the story.  But this season ended with them really messing with their own rules big time, although they were already rewriting the rules throughout the season as a whole. The rules I am talking about are their rules concerning time travel. Now understand, time travel is a real easy thing that takes next to no effort for a 'speedster' in the show. It is something they do real casually all the time. But early on they hinted at the cost of messing with...

The first Star Wars Episode 9 trailer was just released. I've watched it twice now. Will most likely watch it again a few more times today when I get the chance. The title is interesting: 'Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.' Uh, what? Yeah, that is a little confusing. It also doesn't work to complete the sentence the last two films seemed to be building up to (The Force awakens the last Jedi). Is the title a hint that we were misled in episode 8 about Rey's parents? Is that the Emperor's laugh at the end there as they look at the wreckage of what I am assuming is the 2nd Death Star? How is that all connected? Are the rumors that the Emperor knew something about the truth of Anakin's birth going to be proven correct? Yeah, lots and lots of questions. All in all not much was really shown. We knew Lando was going to return and that there would be scenes with Leia using unused footage. I am wondering if the Lei...

There are times when the news for upcoming projects restores all faith in the creative community and right now we have had one of those announcements: Neil Gaiman will bring back Jim Henson's The Storyteller That has to be one of the most perfect headlines I have ever seen. Jim Henson's The Storyteller was such a brilliantly done series. Regretfully John Hurt will not be able to return as the role of the Storyteller. He was so perfect in that role. With Gaiman as the head writer and producer, working with the Jim Henson company, it sounds like the perfect set up for one incredible show. Neil Gaiman, re-imagining old folk tales... He has already shown us how gifted he is at that, but now he gets to work with Muppets to do this. These are the Dark Crystal/Labyrinth level of Muppets we're talking about. If you have not seen any of Jim Henson's Story Teller, then it is hard to explain how incredible those stories are. I checked and right now the full se...

I have never really been a big fan of DC Comics or their related properties. I generally am aware of them, but I don't go out of my way to watch their stuff for the most part and when I do, I normally find my views to be justified. I just do not enjoy most of what DC puts out there. In past posts I have talked about some of the DC-related elements that I do not like and why. Every so often something DC-related surprises me. I am a huge fan of Watchman and I understand why it is such a big deal. Neil Gaiman's Sandman is just so incredibly well done. I liked Batman Begins, the only good movie of that trilogy, as The Dark Knight is one of the most overrated films ever. And thanks to my son, I got into the new Flash TV show and Supergirl. While neither fully breaks away from the flaws of DC, they a least were different and had interesting characters and plots that I enjoyed. And while the Flash is insanely overpowered and they tried to pull Supergirl down power-wise, they soo...

When I first heard they were working on an animated Spider-Man movie I thought "Okay, might be fun," but really did not think of it as anything big. The trailers came out and I thought "Okay, this looks better than I was expecting," yet I was still not taking it too seriously. I had little faith they were going to do anything special with it. I figured it would be just another attempt at Sony Pictures getting their money's worth from having the rights to Spider-Man cinematic universe. They have been so hit or miss with what they have done with it so far, I was not seeing a full animated movie as being promising from them. So now on Rotten Tomatoes Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has 62 reviews and is at 100%. Now that is a truly rare event.  Normally by 62 reviews there are a few who didn't like a movie, no matter how good it is. Several reviews call it the best animated movie of the year, which is saying a lot. A Sony Pictures animated film is getting...

Stan Lee has died. It was not a surprise or shocking death, as he was 95 and had been having health issues. Yet his death does hit hard those of us who were fans. When a person who has inspired us, entertained us, created something that we hold important in our lives dies, it is going to leave us at a loss of words, even if it is expected. And while I am one of those who feels that Lee's contribution is too often over hyped, (Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby were just as important in creating what became the Marvel Universe, but are not as well known) he very much became a known inspiring personality.  Anyone who reads my blog knows how big a fan of Spider-Man I am, so having both creators die in less than half a year from each other (Steve Ditko passed in June) is somewhat surreal. You can look back to my posts about how Amazing Fantasy 15 changed the world of comic books and entertainment in general. With just that one creation the two of them created a legacy that is clearly going t...