Boy got Back (Problems)

Oof, oof, oof: threw out my back doing laundry yesterday, and am still feeling the aftershocks. Staggering in to work this morning through a monsoon was all kinds of not fun. One bright spot was my purchase yesterday of the dish rack to end all dish racks. When having more space to dry your dishes is a major highlight, you know life is getting pretty boring. Well, with the "three weeks" in full swing, whattaya expect? Missed Natalie Douglas's show at the Iridium, the new Cast Party at Birdland, and Assassins... yech!

NY Times magazine this week has a cover story on graphic novels. Not the best written piece, IMHO, and when you relegate Neil Gaiman and the "Sandman" phenomenon to a single sentence towards the end, you're not really keeping up with my interests. The most general point, that there's some really good things happening in the graphic novel genre, is one worth making, however. DC's Vertigo imprint alone has produced some excellent series. Now, if they'd hurry up with the new "Fables" trade paperback already: it's bad enough that I'm buying individual "Lucifer" comics, and let's get something straight: comics suck. Having to wait a month for ten pages of story sucks, paying for an equal number of pages of advertising for products I couldn't care less about sucks, having to take care of them so they don't completely fall apart on you sucks. If only Mike Carey and Bill Willingham weren't such !@#$$@ compelling writers.