On the plus side, everyone at home is recovering from colds and flu. (Yes, both). We even all got *out* over the weekend!
On the minus side, that means getting up early on weekdays again, and it’s going to take a while to adjust.
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This sounds amazing: BOOM is going to be doing graphic novels based on The Magicians …
This sounds amazing: BOOM is going to be doing graphic novels based on The Magicians (the books, not the TV show), starting with an OGN next summer focusing on Alice: her life before Brakebills and the events of the first book from her POV.
I’m not familiar with artist Pius Bak, but writer Lilah Sturges is a perfect choice.
Boom! Studios Brings Lev Grossman’s THE MAGICIANS to Comics
THE MAGICIANS: ALICE’S STORY original graphic novel is slated for release by the publisher in July 2019.
After listening to the audio version, I re-read Final Crisis…
After listening to the audio version, I re-read Final Crisis, Rogues Revenge & Superman Beyond, plus read some of the tie-ins for the first time.
– Superman Beyond is essential.
– Submit (Black Lightning/Tattooed Man) adds a lot by showing the personal impact of the event, plus fills in plot.
– Resist (Checkmate) broadens the scope but can be skipped. (I do like using the captive villain AIs as a way to get around the ALE’s control of communication channels)
#AmReading #comics #FinalCrisis
Rogues Revenge was in the works before Final Crisis, and it shows. It still works as Rogues: Rebirth, but now I think the FC connections hurt more than they help.
Revelations is a much tighter story that weaves in and out of issues 2 & 3 (if not seamlessly), picking up the Crime Bible & Vandal Savage and showing the early stages of Darkseid’s takeover. I didn’t read it originally, but I’m glad I finally got around to it.
#comics #FinalCrisis #AmReading
I didn’t re-read Requiem. I still haven’t picked up Rage of the Red Lanterns. (I’d forgotten the Alpha Lanterns were involved in Final Crisis.)
I also didn’t re-read Legion of Three Worlds, which IIRC has nothing to do with Final Crisis except Superman passes through it between Superman: Beyond and his return to Final Crisis when Braniac 5 shows him the Miracle Machine. (3 versions of the LSH, none of which were the one that I actually followed).
I do want to re-read Multiversity now, though.
Finished listening to the Graphic Audio adaptation of FInal Crisis. It actually flows better than …
Finished listening to the Graphic Audio adaptation of FInal Crisis. It actually flows better than the comic, especially toward the end, when the comic starts fragmenting the narrative (which is great metatext, but there’s a lot of “what just happened?”). Scenes are fleshed out, and the multi-flashback structure of the last chapter is made linear instead.
#amreading #comics
A lot of that is probably the novelization it was based on (it credits the story only to Greg Cox, with no mention of Grant Morrison or any of the artists, which seems a shame), but I don’t think it would work well as a book.
The voice acting, music and sound make up for a lot of the lost visual punch and visual structure of the story, and it needs more than just the words.
One of the weird things about the Final Crisis audio book is that it incorporates …
One of the weird things about the Final Crisis audio book is that it incorporates *some* of the tie-ins, but excludes the one that sets up Mandrakk. Scenes showing what’s happening to Batman in the Evil Factory are included, and all of the Black Lightning/Tattooed Man story from Submit…but nothing from Superman Beyond. It (or the novelization it’s based on) actually replaces the Monitor who recruits Superman with Braniac 5, sending him off to L3W but not including it!
#comics #amreading
My original plan was to move on straight to the sequel, which came out earlier …
My original plan was to move on straight to the sequel, which came out earlier this summer, but I’m really intrigued by The Three Body Problem, so I’m probably going to pick that up so that I’m not *too* far behind all the other #sffbookclub discussion!
I like Flickr better than Instagram, but I post more often on Instagram…
Odd thoughts:
I like Flickr better than Instagram, but I post more often on Instagram than on Flickr. Because I like Flickr more, I feel like I should take my time & curate my photos better.
But I also end up posting many at a time on Flickr, and single photos on Instagram. Because I don’t feel like I’m spamming if I post 20 pics to Flickr, but I do if I post that many to Instagram.
Instagram does have a multi-photo post mode, but really what you’re doing is posting a stack. Only the cover photo appears in timelines or searches. The whole stack shares one description, one set of tags, and only ever appears as a unit.
Compare to Flickr, where you can post 10 pictures with their own descriptions & tags, and group them into an album together. People (including you) can find any individual photo through searching & follow it to the album if they want.
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@brion Yeah, Flickr has enough searchability (and people looking) that it’s still partly about buildng the long tail. Here’s my gallery, check out what you want to see.
Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, even Mastodon are so much about the moment, to the point that looking at any sort of history feels like an accident. Or stalking.
IFTTT doesn’t know what tags are *new* on a Pocket bookmark
Last night I tested linking Pocket to Mastodon via #IFTTT to automatically share links when I add a certain tag. (See details). Today I discovered something else about IFTTT.
One of the links I used had an old tag to share it to Buffer, and Pocket cheerfully picked up that tag & sent it out again.
That means IFTTT doesn’t know what tags are *new* on a Pocket bookmark. It only knows that the bookmark has been updated, and what the current tags are.