Comic Book Fans, Commence laughing
Still chugging along at work. Wish I had some more free time to work on my spec stuff... ah, who am I kidding? I wish I had more free time to play video games. A man can dream, can't he?
So thanks to Dwayne and Thom, I've got a stack of this month's DC Comics to read. Last night, I took a break and decided to read the Countdown comics. Featuring the writing talents of guys like Paul Dini and Adam Beechen, they come out weekly, so there's a stack of issues #43, #44, #45, and #46. Without thinking, I plop myself down before bed and open up to read #43.
Because I'm reading them sequentially.
Now, for most of you out there, there's nothing wrong with what I did. But for you guys who follow comic books, you know that the Countdown comics are counting DOWN. Thus, the title, Countdown. But because I'm an idiot, I read the last part first. I was a few pages into #44 when I got really confused. Man, this story is using a lot of flashbacks. Then I wondered if this was some sort of genius Memento-like story-telling device. I don't think I realized that I was reading it out of order until I looked really closely at the covers.
Me use brain. Brain good.
Why am I putting this out there? To make myself the object of derision? Well, because if I didn't blog about the stupid things I did? We wouldn't have a blog now, would we?
So thanks to Dwayne and Thom, I've got a stack of this month's DC Comics to read. Last night, I took a break and decided to read the Countdown comics. Featuring the writing talents of guys like Paul Dini and Adam Beechen, they come out weekly, so there's a stack of issues #43, #44, #45, and #46. Without thinking, I plop myself down before bed and open up to read #43.
Because I'm reading them sequentially.
Now, for most of you out there, there's nothing wrong with what I did. But for you guys who follow comic books, you know that the Countdown comics are counting DOWN. Thus, the title, Countdown. But because I'm an idiot, I read the last part first. I was a few pages into #44 when I got really confused. Man, this story is using a lot of flashbacks. Then I wondered if this was some sort of genius Memento-like story-telling device. I don't think I realized that I was reading it out of order until I looked really closely at the covers.
Me use brain. Brain good.
Why am I putting this out there? To make myself the object of derision? Well, because if I didn't blog about the stupid things I did? We wouldn't have a blog now, would we?
posted by Eugene at 2:48 PM
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