Ghostbusters

Last night I finished reading the graphic novel Dark Night: A True Batman Story by Paul Dini, with art by Eduardo Risso. It's an autobiographical book about writer Dini, who was a very successful writer for animated TV shows. In January 1993, Dini was brutally attacked by a couple of muggers and savagely beaten. As Dini recuperates and tries to find his way back to the world, he imagines conversations between himself and Batman, the Joker, two face and other characters. it's a powerful book about healing, about the power of creating and the value of fictional creations. 

I managed to leave work early and I went up to the local comic book store and bought Batman issue 3, Green Lanterns issue 3, Tales from the Darkside issue 2, Superman issue 3, Detective Comics issue 936, Civil War II issue 3, Hellblazer: Rebirth issue 1 and Black Panther issue 1.

I went along to the movies and saw the new Ghostbusters which I really enjoyed. I was a big fan of the original, and pretty much grew up with it (it was one of those standard movies that we had on video when I was a kid and put on pretty much every holiday), but I did think that this one was funnier.

Dark Night

Last night I read a couple of short stories by Ray Bradbury: "There Was an Old Woman" was about an elderly woman who is tricked into dying and heads off to the mortuary to get her body back so she can come back to life, it was pretty funny, and "There Will Come Soft Rains" about a fully automated house, that still keeps running even after the family that lived in it have been obliterated in a nuclear war.

It was another long day at work. I listened to an interesting episode of the Short Cuts podcast, hosted by comedian Josie Long, about rivalries about the time Canada almost went to war with Denmark and a genuinely hilarious letter of complaint to a laundromat. I also heard a really good Nerdist podcast interview with comics and animation TV writer Paul Dini. 

This evening I downloaded onto my Kindle, the graphic novel Dark Night: A True Batman Story written by Paul Dini with art by Eduardo Rosso, an autobiographical comic about a time when he was mugged and savagely beaten to within an inch of his life and as he recuperates imagines conversations between Batman and the Joker (Dini wrote for Batman: The Animated Series for which he created the character Harley Quinn, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and many others, as well as writing the scripts for the Batman: Arkham series of video games).

I was really tired when I got in this evening and made half of a comic (I'll finish it tomorrow).