And Now Back to Books

42. John Constantine, Hellblazer: Bloodlines by Garth Ennis, Will Simpson, et al. Most (all?) of the last uncollected issues from Ennis's run on this title.
    
43. Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. Ellis's first novel. I quite liked this. It felt somewhat reminiscent of The Illumintus! Trilogy, but with the weirdness level turned down to only slightly beyond what is beyond the realm of possibility.
    
44. Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne, vol. 7 by John Byrne, et al. Closing in on the end of Byrne's run on the FF.
    
45. Parasyte, vol. 1 by Hitoshi Iwaki. Japanese horror, with a touch of humor. (Checked out of the library.)
    
46. Monster Month: Thirty-one New Discoveries from the World's Foremost Cryptozoologist by Prof. Ichbonnsen, with illustrations by Sven Bonnichsen. Last Thursday, Teena & I went to the book release party for this tome. We had a lot of fun and picked up a copy of the book, which I quite enjoyed. Lots of daring-do & fascinating creatures.
    
47. I'm Ready for My Movie Contract by Darby Conley. The latest Get Fuzzy collection.

Well, that didn't take too long, so I guess I'll finish catching up on movies.

• The Film Crew: The Giant of Marathon. A Steve Reeves movie where he doesn't play Hercules. This is what 300 should have been.
  
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: Mr. B's Lost Shorts. A collection of short films compiled from MST3K episodes, including one of the funniest things I've ever seen: "Mr. B Natural."
  
• MST3K: Attack of the Giant Leeches.
  
• The Office, season 1. After hearing about this series for so long, I finally broke down & checked this out of the library. We loved it. However, when we took a look at the original British version, we didn't like it nearly as much. It just seemed too mean. I guess we're just American wimps.
  
• Delicatessen. A post-apocalyptic comedy that's surprisingly light considering it deals with cannibalism.
  
• Doctor Who: City of Death. Great adventure. Tom Baker & Lalla Ward work together wonderfully, and the script has lots of funny moments. Excellent all the way around.
  
• Treasure Island. Until Michael showed this to me, I had never seen this. It's amazing to think that at one point, Disney made live-action films worth seeing.
  
• The West Wing: The Complete First Season. A damn fine show.
  
• Cinematic Titanic: The Oozing Skull. Most of the MST3K alumni who aren't involved in The Film Crew are involved in Cinematic Titanic, which is the same premise yet again: cracking jokes at bad movies. Can't say as I'm tired of it yet.
  
• Avatar The Last Airbender, Book 1: Water, vol. 1. We liked this more than we expected to. We'll be getting future volumes from the library.
  
• Short Cuts.
  
• MST3K: Teenagers from Outer Space.
  
• There Will Be Blood. Impressive all the way around. Beautifully shot, fantastic music, and an outstanding performance by Daniel Day-Lewis.