Podcasts and Comics

It was another pretty busy day at work, because there really weren't many people in the office. I listened to The Magnus Archives which is a horror podcast, this week dealing with a haunted abattoir, Fresh Air which was doing a story about the Patty Hearst kidnapping case from the 1970s and Bizarre States.

I went up to the comic-book store and got Batman issue 4, Deadpool issue 16, Wonder Woman issue 1, Superman issue 4, Silk issue 11, Green Lanterns issue 4, Suicide Squad: Rebirth issue 1 and Daredevil annual 1.

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.