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Some of My Favorite Things
I felt a little bad after writing Wednesday's post. Looking back, it seemed to me that I was complaining about something I'm not getting to do because I'm so busy with all this work. While it's true that I am very busy with my job right now, I'm am finding some really interesting things to do with my free time.
 Superman: Birthright is writer Mark Waid's telling of the origin of The Man of Steel. When the series first appeared in 2004 as a 12-issue maxi-series, it was billed as a "reinterpretation" of Superman's beginning. However, since the series has finished and as DC prepares to move into universe defined by the newly begun Infinite Crisis event, it was made clear that Waid story is now consider canonical. Birthright is the origin of Superman, as far as DC Comics is concerned.
The series had received a lot of strong reviews, and what I had seen of the art certainly raised my interest. I don't read a whole lot of Superman stores, but after reading Kurt Busiek's sensational Superman: Secret Identity this summer and seeing how entertaining a well-done Superman book can be; I was willing to take another crack at The Man of Steel.
Coming from a 12-issue series, Birthright is a 304 page trade paperback, so it's a good hefty read. I'm only about thirty or forty pages in, but I can already see why it received all of the accolades that it did. The storytelling is strong and the art is wonderful. I am thoroughly enjoying the book already and wish I had more time to devote to reading it.
When I first got my iPod this summer I was a little cold on podcasts. It seemed like most of the ones I chose let me down or didn't meet my expectations. I continue to sample them though and what I have found is that for every 4 or 5 podcasts I sample, I'll usually find one that I really like.
 Recently I came across two podcasts that I am really digging. The first is the podcast of episodes for Fanboy Radio, a bi-weekly, one-hour, radio show broadcast from Texas on a college radio station and on the Internet. I've known about the show for years, but never sampled it. I just didn't want to sit in from of my computer to listen to the streaming audio of the show. Now that they are providing copies of the show as a podcast, I can't pick them up fast enough to listen. The hosts are great, demonstrating polished on-air personalities and inter-play between each other. The guests have been great so far as well - comic creators both known and unknown to me. It's a blast to have something like Fanboy Radio to listen to that is related to something I enjoy so much.
 The other podcast that I have quickly fallen in love with is the video podcast for Channel Frederator. They just launched last week, but the two episodes that have come out so far are fantastic. Channel Frederator is an outlet for animators to show the art to the world. The video podcast (or vodcast) is designed so that it can be enjoyed on one of Apple's new iPod's with video, but you can just as easily watch it on you computer. Just ask Heather, who I showed some of the "Cosbee Show" animated short to last night, the stuff on Channel Frederator is fun and creative. I am completely pumped about receiving this in my iTunes every week.
Of course, when I don't have my nose buried in a comic or listening to my iPod, you'll find me spending most of my free time with Ian, Emma, and Zoe. Who continue to find new and creative ways of pulling, twisting, yanking, and pinching their father's body into all sorts of distorted shapes and configurations. All in the name of fun and the umbrella title of "wrestling."
posted by Brendan | 1:11 PM | permanent link
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