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Nitz the Bloody

Member Since: Mon Jun 21, 2004
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Subj: To Stimulate Discussion: The What Are You Reading/Watching/Playing Thread
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 12:44:15 am EST (Viewed 410 times)


I'll start.

Reading ( Prose ): The Sherman Alexie book " Indian Killer ", a multi-perspective murder mystery about a Spokane-Indian themed serial killer who scalps their victims. Given Alexie's literary background, the focus is more on the wave of anti-Native American bigotry sparked by the murders, rather than the mystery itself.

Reading ( Comics ): Invincible Iron Man by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca is my favorite superhero comic on the stands at the moment, for so directly and brutally addressing Tony Stark's self-hating ablism by forcing him to sequentially lobotomize himself ( I won't spoil how the World's Most Wanted story wrapped up here, but....damn ). For graphic novels, I finally got my own copy of We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, a brilliant animal rights story with surprisingly non-anthropomorphized protagonists.

Watching ( TV ): Teppen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the anime by Studio Gainax that could be considered a Crowning Series of Awesome. Galaxy-sized drills powered by sheer determination? Sold!

Watching ( Movie ): Planet 51, an awful animated movie I saw on behalf of a young boy I've done some behavioral work with. I'm glad he enjoyed it, because I only got five minutes into the " the alien world is like 50's America and the human is the alien " gimmick before I was terminally bored by the predictable puerility.

Playing: Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii, the greatest feat of Nintendo nostalgia porn to date, with a pretty good fighting game attached as well.

Any others?




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