November Update

If it’s one thing I like to talk about more than anything in the world it’s me, so that’s what’s in store for today. This is an update of what I’ve been up to, and what I’m doing.

First of all, writing a lot of words in my blog isn’t all that tempting these days, since I’m over 32000 words into NaNoWriMo.

Week 37 Follow Up

Did you know Swedes talks about weeks when scheduling stuff? As in, “My annual leave starts week 34,” or “Our deadline is week 40.” It’s the most idiotic thing, because nobody except school teachers knows which weekday it is. Then Google calender doesn’t show which week it is, so we need to use web pages like whatweekisit.se with a smiling cartoon lady on it, who look suspiciously much like a teacher. At least once a week you hear someone asking, “What week is it?” It’s almost as silly as the imperial system, though there is some predictability in the fact that the week system only counts from 1 to 52 and then starts over again from 1 without mixing in a logarithmic scale or anything.

Anyhow, this week is 37, and I kind of promised to follow up on The Malazan Book of the Fallen, as well as Thors. I thought I could say something about Midnight’s Blessing too.

When G. Willow Wilson made me give Saga a second chance

For a bunch of reasons (*cough* WoW addiction *cough*) I’ve been out of the general geek loop for a while now. So when Felicia Day made a list of the Top Comics of 2014⁽¹⁾, it occurred to me that it was ages since I last visited my local comic book store in another purpose than painstakingly collecting those ridiculously − yet fairly − pricy collector’s editions of Hellboy⁽²⁾. That video from Felicia Day was two months ago, and since then I’ve been visiting the comic store so often that the charming looks-to-be-near-to-pension-owner started calling me by my first name. (How did he even get that?)

I’ve been a customer for over 10 years, but it’s been mostly me popping in twice a year asking for recommendations. I’m usually happy with the ones he gives me, so I had no reason to doubt his judgement when he recommended Saga. I told him that the Metabarons was my favorite sci-fi graphic novel ever, and he said that then Saga might be something for me.