Dude, Where's My Update? #6
I Dare Devil. I Double Dare Devil.
After eight years, I've finally started watching Season 2 of the Netflix Disney+ Daredevil show. It's going pretty good so far. I'm on episode three now which is a banger. I know not everyone likes watching forty-minute conversation on a rooftop but I find that shit riveting. We'll see if Season 2 burns me like it seemed to burn others. Considering I have quite high tolerance for both prestige drama bullshit AND comic book nonsense, I doubt it.
I'll keep you posted.
What's new?
Oh, you know. Writing. Thinking about podcasting. Trying to come up with topics to put in a newsletter. Fretting about what kind of a world we live in where statistically significant numbers of people think it's good, actually, to have internment camps and stuff prisons and just...abrogate the rights and freedoms of immigrant and dissenters and anyone deemed "undesirable," like this never ends poorly or is at all a crime against humanity.
I'm full of rage and shame and frustration and fear. All those "what would you do" moments crashing down and reminding me that, apparently, the answer is little but write. I also suspected as much. I always hoped for more.
It's that kind of a week.
Music Corner
I'm not a particularly adventurous musical listener. I have my few artists, my few albums, and I primarily cycle through them for a few years before moving on. Right now, one of those artists is TOMOO, a Japanese musician I've been following for three or four years now. Their work has been hitting a similar spot as Of Monsters and Men in terms of meeting my mood. Very different vibes though.
I highlighted one of their songs in my 2024 wrap-up. That still may be one of my favorites of theirs. Billboard interviewed them a couple years back so if you're curious, give it a read and then check out a couple of their tracks. Some are upbeat and poppy, others melancholic and quiet. Oh, and if you're wondering where you heard them before, Blue Box's second ED is their new song "Contrast."
(I promise that's where this busted-ass link goes. Ghost is being weird with YouTube previews right now.)
Writing! For you to read!
Last time, I teased that I had been writing a couple articles for other sites. Well, they're both out! The first was for Shelfdust, my first there, and is about "Rising Stars." This was a bear of an article to get right. I couldn't quite shape it at first. Thankfully, Steve did a great job editing it and pointing me in the right direction.
"Rising Stars" is a work that feels like a trial run for what Straczynski would do for Marvel's "Supreme Power" but also what that would have looked like were it to have reached a real conclusion. It's a very flawed series that's nonetheless exceptionally overlooked. I was shocked by how good that first issue is, even now, even having read the series in full nearly a decade ago.
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The second is my review of Kateřina Čupová's adaptation of the classic sci-fi play "R.U.R." I won't go into much detail, since I get into it in the piece. Suffice it to say, another fun piece for SOLRAD and another book you should definitely check out.
Elias Rosner
Coming Attractions
Still plugging away at that mystery project. Getting sick two weeks back really screwed with my schedule but I'm getting back at it. Expect another couple installments of Climbing the Tower and Mangaversity before I get it truly wrangled though. I took a break from it to clear my head and get something else out. A longform article that's being reviewed (if it's not a good fit, I'll be posting it here) and am plugging away at another couple smaller reviews.
Considering how I write, those will likely balloon pretty fast. I want to write about everything under the sun and that can be paralyzing. Freeing, when I find the groove, too. Mostly it is frustrating, knowing I could be doing more, knowing it would not be healthy to keep doing more and more.
This is why I don't cover comics news.
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