Hot. It was going to be a great post if I had properly emailed it to myself on Friday afternoon and put it up when it was supposed to. But no I emailed the pics and about 5 lines from the post. Lets just say I was not impressed. At least I got to share the pictures so you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t miss out too much.<\/p>\n Now, after being home for 2 full days I am already feeling a bit restless. I do have my hobbies to fall back on, the jewellery, writing, and painting which are my favourite ones. But my creativity seems to be waning right now. Last week I finished my big jewellery project which is this awesome chain maille necklace which looks great. It is made of blackened stainless steel and anodized aluminum. I have to say I impressed even myself and I would expect no less after working on it for almost 3 weeks.<\/p>\n I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t painted anything in over a year now which I think is a complete travesty. But painting comes to me is spurts. The last time I started painting I did continuously for almost 6 months going from canvas to canvas. The ideas were just flowing and ramming themselves into my brain and they wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let me rest. It made me feel happy and productive. I miss that.<\/p>\n The writing is mainly for the site these days. I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t written a story in almost 6 months. The last one I did write I did like. It was actually a continuation of a story that I had started almost 2 years before. I was just reading through some of my stories and there are many that I have just never finished but when I came across that one I was put in a frame of mind that let me finish it. But what it made me realise was that I was in a morbid mood. The story was about death and the 2 stories before that were about death as well. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like where my mind was taking me and I think it just turned me off of writing cuz I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t written anything since.<\/p>\n Because I am not into my hobbies right now I have had to find something else to occupy my time. I have started reading a lot of graphic novels. I picked some up at the FanExpo and I have had a whole shelf of them sitting around for a long time. Before that the last one I had read was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Watchmen\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>. But even before all this time was freed up I had been gravitating towards them. Even when I went to Trinidad my book of choice was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Final Crisis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Grant Morrison, JQ Jones, and Carlos Pacheco.<\/p>\n That book was good. I say good because I am not sure I get all of it. This book was the epic of the DC universe. It encompassed everyone DC had including well knowns like Superman, Batman, Wonderwoman, Green Lantern, and many lesser known characters. There was just so much and I had not been following the story line up until the point the book had started. But the story was intense and graphic (bloody and violent) and intriguing. It kept my focus and so much happened that when I finished reading it I felt tired. And then there was the art. The illustration was just awesome. Beautifully drawn and rendered.<\/p>\n But since then I have just stuck with them. I finally finished the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Y: The Last Man\u00e2\u20ac\u009d series by Brian K Vaughan. And I was awed by it. I started reading the series some time last year and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why I stopped. A friend of mine introduced me to the series and I read them feverishly for a while. I even went out and bought the last 4 issues and they have just been sitting on my shelf. When I picked it up again I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put it down. And when I read that last page I was touched. I was disappointed the journey was over but it was the perfect ending to a series like that. I was poignant, non-clich\u00c3\u00a9, and worth of this grand story. Who would have know a story about the last man on earth and his monkey would be so great?<\/p>\n I have also read a bunch of others including \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mighty Love\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Howard Chaykin. That was just ok but it has a reall good log line \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A man, a woman \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and some spandex\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. There was also \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wonder Woman: Who is Wonder Woman?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bad. The story was ok but kinda blah but the art was colourful and vivid and the overall writing was good. And I read a few Batmans, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fables\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Preacher\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Transmetropolitan\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Joker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Brian Azzarello which has really disturbing cover art.<\/p>\n Right now I am going through \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All Star Superman Volume 1\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly. It is really good. I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read a lot of Superman stuff. There was just something about the series that never totally appealed to me. I would pick up an issue here or there but there was nothing that really grabbed me but there seems to be something different about this one. It lacks a lot of the usual cheese that you find in the series. It is not that it is particularly realistic or intense or brutal but there is something direct, fun, and entertaining about it. Even the art in it is a little different than usual for Superman. It is a series I will most likely follow.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/firemen.jpg\" "\\"firemen\\"")
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