ArtisticallyChill

Been pretty busy these last few days with X-mas being right around the corner. However, we still made it to the comic book store last week to pick a hefty stack of comics to read before the holidays take up most of our time. Also, I finally got to test that special item Keith’s friend Jim brought in for me. That item being a BETA tape player. I brought it to my dad’s house and told him it was an early x-mas present if it worked properly. After letting it sit for a half hour, my dad dug up one of our old vacation tapes and we powered up the Beta player. We fast-forward the tape to the end and rewound it back to warm the player up. When we hit play, the picture was a bit odd at the start but after that it was crisp and clean. It was like looking into a window of my past as I saw my 10 year old self on a road trip to Niagara Falls with my family. Times definitely were simpler then.

With the successful test of the Beta player, I have brought my dad one step closer to getting the tapes transferred and preserved on DVD. All he needs now is a TV tuner card on his PC. When he asked me where I got it, I told him I had a good friend at Keith’s Komix (Keith) who had a friend (Jim) that had a player sitting around and I told my dad that if it worked fine, he’d sell it to me. Thanks Keith and Jim for making this X-mas a special one for me and my dad.

So this week we have:
• ASTONISHING X-MEN # 33
• BATMAN # 694
• BATMAN 80-PAGE GIANT
• BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL # 39
• BATMAN: STREETS OF GOTHAM # 7
• CABLE # 21
• DEADPOOL: MERC WITH A MOUTH # 6
• GREEN LANTERN CORPS # 43
• JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA # 40
• KOOKABURRA K # 2
• THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ # 2
• THE OUTSIDERS # 25
• POWER GIRL # 7
• X-FACTOR # 200
• X-FORCE # 22

PICK OF THE WEEK: GREEN LANTERN CORPS # 43

Written by Peter J. Tomasi; Art and cover by Pat Gleason and Rebecca Buchman; Variant cover by Ladrönn

Red rain falls! As the Black Lanterns continue their reign of terror and chaos on Oa, things go from bad to worse when a horrible loss for the Green Lantern Corps results in Guy Gardner becoming so enraged that he becomes a Red Lantern! And hell breaks loose as the Central Power Battery faces an attack from the newly arrived Black Lantern Corphans!

From the list above, it looks like I’ve got a lot of reading to be done before X-mas Eve. BLACKEST NIGHT has been full of awesomeness since it first started and looks to keep going strong and finish with a bang. Kyle Raynor is dead! What happens when Guy Gardner becomes a Red Lantern?! I can’t wait to read this issue! I will probably read this one first cause I know I won’t be disappointed.

~ LoneWolf