Showing posts with label Shazam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shazam. Show all posts

12.31.2017

182 Shazam!: The New Beginning 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition


I was a big Roy Thomas fan back in the day.  But reading this, either my tastes have changed or his stuff was crap.  This is not a great series.  Maybe the cards were stacked against him going into this series, or maybe his work just does not hold up.  Either way, I'm so glad he didn't get an on-going Shazam series like he was supposed to.  It would have been quarter box stuff all the way.

Shazam!: The New Beginning 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Writer: Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas
Artist: Tom Mandrake, Rick Stasi, Rick Magyar, Jan Duursema
DC Comics

3.11.2007

So Tired

I hate when we have to change the clocks ahead. Never more so since I started my current job. I used to work retail and Mondays I never had to be in until noon. So losing that hour of sleep was never that big a deal. Now I've got a "real" job and have to be in on Monday morning. I'm gonna hurt. I'm trying to give my body a quick adjust to the change. Saturday morning I got up at 5:30am to go in for some overtime. Generally, if I go in on Saturdays, I work from 6:30 to 12:30, go home and nap the rest of the afternoon. As much as I wanted to, I didn't nap. I stayed up until about 1am (later than I planned). Then I got up this morning around 8:15am. It hurt to get up, but I did it. I figure that if I can get to bed at a reasonable time tonight, I should be golden. In theory. But you know it's gonna backfire and blow up in my face. We'll see.

Speaking of overtime, Saturday's was a nightmare. I get to work and my computer decides it doesn't like my new password and won't let me in. At all. It also doesn't like my old password. I was really pissed off. I got up at 5:30 for nothing? Luckily there was plenty of stuff for me to do. Most everyone had non-computer related things to give me to do and that brought me all the way up to 12:30. I figured that I might have enough to do until about 7:30 and then I'd be gone.

What bummed me out about the possibility of no overtime on Saturday was that I have already earmarked the money for some comic book t-shirts. I decided that as a reward for all the weight I've lost so far, I would treat myself to some comic shirts. I haven't owned one since the late 80s or early 90s. Mostly because I had gotten so big that I couldn't fit into one anymore. I know I can fit into a 2XL easily now and that's about as big as they come. I think I want a Shazam shirt and a Green Lantern. This will probably change before I actually get around to ordering them.