i'm baaaack.

yes, lady and gentleman, i have returned. as posted over at mattyspace, the fact that my current work ethic sucks eggs has brought me back to blogging. i will try to post here on a semi-regular basis.

i'm not sure about weekly reviews, as that was always a bit of a pain for me (my reading tends to get done in binges, and often i'll go for two weeks or more without reading a week's books), but i will try to comment on the state of the industry, and maybe i'll do something fun like give a recommendation of the week (or whatever appropriate period of time i happen to post within).

two things today:

1. hawkman. regular readers (all two of you) will note that i have gone back and forth on hawkman. i picked it up. i liked it. i dropped it. i picked it up again. i dropped it. that was four issues ago. well, i just finished reading geoff johns' incredible return of hawkman arc in JSA (TPBs -- gotta love em), and i'm going to start picking the monthly hawks up again. because if that is the potential, i am on board. i loved what he did with the hawks in jsa -- the soap opera aspect combined with the indiana jones aspect. this is what i was looking for in the monthly but lost in favor of plain super-heroics. but in jsa, he found a perfect balance of all three. gonna pick up the missing issues tonight to see what there is to see.

2. hobby. i decided to get off my ass and catalogue the collection. i had been doing it for the first month or so of hardcore collecting last year, and then fell out practice when my buying habits started to get out of control. they're back under control now, but the problem is i have hundreds of books that need cataloguing. i'm an anal person by nature, everything in it's place, but i'm also always pushing my own personal time boundaries, so that when it comes to down time, the last thing i want to do is spend another 2 hours in front of the computer. i did design a fancy-schmancy filemaker pro database for the books though, and devised an MS excel spreadsheet to make for easy entry of long runs, so i hope to have all back issues entered by month's end (good luck). i look forward to having the whole thing indexed though, so i can look up without hassle which damn issues the bruce wayne murderer fiasco happenend in in cas i ever want to go back and well reread it. it should also make it easier for me to figure out which issues are on the chopping block. it's time for a purge, and i happen to know i have some issues, somewhere, that are worth a little dough. it sounds crass, and i know i'm killing the industry and all, but i want to unl;oad them for all they're worth while i still have the time, you know?

only 37 days till daredevil. as i am getting more and more intrigued by the alias tv show, i'm less and less miffed by jennifer garner as elektra. still not happy about ben affleck, but, what can you do?