Recently, I finished reading The Walking Dead: Miles Behind Us, the second volume of the Walking Dead series. I must say this: the story telling was still the same amazing storytelling that got me hooked on The Walking Dead. The disappointment, though, lies in the changing of the artist. No longer are the drawings clear, such that you can tell who a character is from "miles" away, but now they're blob-faced and hard to distinguish, even up close. It was disappointing, but not enough to prevent me from reading on. One other problem I had were the massive introductions of characters, and at times I had difficulty figuring out who was who. Nevertheless, I managed to figure out who was who, based on context. The story picks up where the previous issue left off, and introduces some more characters. Along the way, some folk die to the bite of zombie death, and some drama ensues. I really liked it, all in all. And if you like the ever popular zombie tale, I recommend this book to you. You'll probably like it too.
Also, Amber and I saw Wall-E last night. I lifted my ban on the evil Cinemark empire and paid enough for a special edition DVD, but I was not disappointed in the movie. In case you have lived under a rock for the past...year... Wall-E is a movie about a trash-compacting robot living all alone on an abandoned, over-littered Earth. He does his daily activities of compacting the trash into neat little cubes and stacking them into piles larger than most skyscrapers. One day, though, he meets a new robot, named Eve, who shows him just how lonely he's been this entire time. Wall-E, the robot, gets a feeling for what it's like to be alive, until Eve is rushed away in a spaceship. Wall-E latches on, and they're soon on an intergalactic cruise ship whose patrons are ... well... it's funny 'cause it's true. Here he takes place in a power struggle akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey, only Wall-E fights for the User! The entire movie had that funny because it's true motif to it, ranging from a Wall-Mart-like company ruling all of mankind, to the detriments of laziness, to an over-reliance on machines, and every other thing that you bad humans do these days. Disney Pixar, with their past few movies, have really caught my interest. I really liked The Incredibles, enjoyed Rattatouille, and also liked greatly Wall-E (Cars was all right. I'd rather watch fake cars waste fake gas than the alternative). Amber liked it as well, as basically, she'll like anything animated with the word Disney somewhere in the title.
What's next? I picked up the latest issue of FSF (thinking about switching to the Best Of omnibuses after the December 2008 issue). It looks like a bearded James Dean is shooting Al Pachino, but he just seems to find it the funniest thing ever. I wonder what treasures await!
Also, picked up the latest issue of 2600. There's an interesting article on extracting stored passwords using JavaScript from the address bar. Or maybe I'm a little biased.
Crossposted in
The Eventide Knave and
The Gangster of L'Oeuf.
