Saturday 12 July 2003
 

Pop culture images, rendered in the isometric perspective. I just thought it an interesting concept. Also expropriated from David Morford.
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Malling!
In poetry collection news, I picked up Anne Carson’s Glass, Irony and God on the strength of “The Fall of Rome” and Hayden Carruth’s Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey. I forewent Louise Gluck’s Vita Nuova and Geoffrey Hill’s Speech! Speech!, but will probably reconsider in the next week.

The Apple Store is offering an “Apple Store Pro Card.” Sigh. I don’t know how much, but the one day of ten percent off on software is looking attractive, especially with my Adobe suite (of which I only use Illustrator and Photoshop regularly) still stuck in the flakily emulated OS 9, and other software I really really want. But then there’s the G5 coming up soon.

Sigh. Must resist urge to translate dissatisfaction into purchases.
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Recently started searching for my old copies of Elementals and Coventry after picking up the graphic novel Fables: Legends in Exile, collecting issues one through five of Williamson’s new Vertigo series. I keep seeing little things in the dialogue and panel layouts that remind me of his earlier work, like Colin running around in the foreground and background while the main action is happening elsewhere in the scene. I couldn’t find anything, though, to verify my thoughts. Sigh. I enjoyed both of those comics while they lasted.

Anyway, came across some old New Teen Titans issues, the stuff from which the Teen Titans cartoon series will be based. I had forgotten how risque Koriandr’s outfit was; the cartoon tones it down into a teenybopper tube top it seems. Kid Flash doesn’t seem to feature in the promos. The cartoon also seems to put them at a much younger age than the comic book, making the Robin/Nightwing-Starfire romance plotline unlikely. It seems to play up a Robin-Cyborg rivalry I don’t remember from the book.

Also came upon the twisted The Lost, recounting Captain Hook’s search for the vampiric Lost Boys. Only two issues of a projected four came out, both of which I have. Pity.
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