It was like a breath of fresh air to read this bit of news about Lovely Bones yesterday. I have missed me some PJ, still love the toes off that book, and am generally gladdened by the whole enterprise. Since my "heroes" tend to be of the ink-and-paper variety (or lightsaber-swingin' type), it occured to me recently that Peter Jackson is probably my number one Hero Who Actually Walks Around On This Earth (most likely because he does so barefoot). I know that my heroes should be nuns and firemen and environmental engineers and so forth, but I remain resiliently indicative of the worst stripe of 21st-century humanity. I idolize the entertainers.

Speaking of ink and paper, this panel (bottom one) of Mary Jane is my favourite bit of inked performance of the past month. I am all about "performance" in comic art right now. (Last month it was colour.) How do you draw performance? It totally defies me. There's a reason I chose Extreme Steve as my visual muse.

Free Comic Book Day was terrific. We were once again blessed with fine, sunshiney strollin' weather, and made our lazy way from Queen West to the Annex over the course of five hours. Chad brought a pregnant woman with him! Now that's accessorizing. The "baby's first Free Comic Book Day" stuff was too cute to be legal, especially when Chad was holding free funnybooks up to Andria's belly. Man, time goes by so fast. Next year we'll be doing this with a stroller. Awesome.

Look what we found at Chapters!!!:

Oh, I am wayyyyyyy too excited about this. Best concept ever. Best word-mashup that I should've come up with myself ever. Best Hallowe'en costume idea ever. Best modification of the pirate flag ever... look at the fangs! I suspect the book sucks, but who cares, I own it now. I will read it after I finish Making of Star Wars... which is phenomenal so far, by the way. A perfect way to spend the 30th anniversary month, even if it is a bit heavy for the subway.

Theories on the incoming Lost "game changer": well the old Survivor hag in me wants to believe it's the "drop your buffs" episode, i.e. a whole bunch of folk will switch sides in the middle of the Lord of the Ringsy beach-war. The other possibility, however, is that it's a conceptual U-turn so massive that it really will change the way we think about the nature of the show for ever after, like they all wake up one day and find out they're in a holodeck on a space station orbiting Mars or something (which is not outside the realm of possibility, especially given the clues lately, and no that's not my "big theory" but I'm just sayin'). Final Lost Wednesday is May 23 @ 3QF.

I did about 11K on the bike on Friday, which was pretty decent; I shall try to do 15 or 20 today. I also have to go get soccer gear because our first game is tonight and I, like a tard, tossed my stuff at the tail of last season figuring it would force me to get new stuff, and promptly forgot to do so. Now I've finished my coffee, written in my journal and done my blogging for the day, so my comics must go unread. It's too nice a day for sitting around in a Starbucks.