Girls, Girls and more Girls

Looking for a great read? A story that doesn't go on and on and on...? Pick up Girls by the Luna Brothers in graphic novel softcover, volumes 1-4. The story takes place in a nowhere Texas town totally isolated by a mystifying alien presence and how the citizens cope with the takeover of alien beings. You'll figure out pretty quickly why this is called "Girls". The writing is realistic, the artwork is clean and consistent. The story takes it time to develop and is great on building tension. Oh, yeah, and it DOES come to a conclusion. Consider this science fiction/horror for mature readers only. Image Comics is the publisher. Check it out!

It's Movie Time!

I went to a local plex and saw the latest Harry Potter chapter. My wife and I enjoyed it but I didn't think it was as good as the previous four. I haven't read the books as I'm not into magic and fantasy unless it's more along the lines of Sword & Sorcery. To illustrate, it took me forever to read The Hobbit and I could never get into the Lord of the Rings trilogy which I bagged very early during Book 1. Back to the Order of the Phoenix... I felt this one was talky with not much action until the end. It was kind of a 'breather' chapter. I do look forward to the final two installments.

On the other hand, my son and I watched Pan's Labyrinth. What a movie! It was a little different than what I expected. Kind of a 'fairy tale within a fairy tale'. Great story, directing & acting. Not for young children. Some shockingly violent scenes and the entire movie is spoken in Spanish with English sub-titles. It took five minutes to get into the flow of reading the dialogue but it didn't take away from the story at all. Strongly recommended.

If you rent a decent amount of movies, take a look at Blockbuster Online versus Netflix. I'm a subscriber to the $9.95/month plan and have been quite pleased. Blockbuster has an endless selection (as does Netflix) plus the advantage of their brick & mortar stores. Watch the movie you received in the mail, take it to your Blockbuster store and exchange it for an in-store DVD. Blockbuster mails your returned flick and you'll also receive the next DVD from your Blockbuster Online queue. On top of that, you receive a monthly coupon via e-mail (print it off) good for another movie from your local BB store. No monthly limits! I recently read that Blockbuster is cutting into Netflix business. Netflix has lowered it's prices a bit to battle back but without physical stores, Blockbuster will continue to have the upper hand.

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My name is Jim Jurgensen and I hope you'll enjoy and participate in my blog. I've been a reader and collector of comic books since 1965, currently selling back issues from my online store at this link: http://www.wagglepop.com/stores/comicstockworldwide -
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