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My Mini-review of DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS.

Short version: Sam Raimi’s back.

Slightly longer version: Sam Raimi hasn’t directed anything since OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL, and now I’m wondering whether I should maybe sit down to watch that after all. It’s for sure it won’t be most of a decade before Raimi directs another movie, this time. DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS is very much a Raimi joint: expect a sometimes comic take on gore, body horror, and dead people. I mention this solely because somebody was whining about this on social media, which is roughly equivalent to whining about the fact that a Kurosawa film featured swordplay. Neighbor, what were you expecting?

Anyway, fun flick if you like the idea of Sam Raimi being given a lot of money to screw around with the MCU. So, as you might imagine: I had a grand old time.

#commissionearned

Taking the rest of the night off.

Got THE ETERNALS on and… it’s not too bad, really. If you’re into people looking on in the middle of various Kirbyesque landscapes. It’s kind of goofy and pretty weird and I liked it more than I expected.

But it’s eating up the rest of the night. So I’m taking a break for the rest of it.

Finished up HAWKEYE today.

Chewing through all the MCU stuff I haven’t seen yet, because tomorrow or Sunday is gonna be DOCTOR STRANGE. After this, I watch ETERNALS tonight, which should catch me up completely. Probably unnecessary, but what the heck. I should relax sometimes.

Anyway, HAWKEYE was fun. I worried going in that Kate Bishop would be written as this god-tier replacement who would show Clint Barton how it’s really done, but instead we got a buddy cop series. Or ‘buddy secret agent’ series, maybe? Anyway, Clint doesn’t need to be taught the power of friendship, because he’s well aware how powerful it is; so powerful, in fact, that it’s left a few pieces behind in his soul. And Kate is commendably bandaged and rumpled by the end of the series; perfect, she is not.

All in all, HAWKEYE is a fun series that reminds itself on a regular basis that, geez, it’s Christmas. I should have finished it earlier.

#commissionearned

The BLADE RUNNER RPG Kickstarter.

I’m not sure if I’m backing the BLADE RUNNER RPG yet. It looks nice, but I’m not playing the games I have now. On the bright side, at the time of writing the Kickstarter has clocked in at just over 27,400 m$d$ ($1,151 million), so it doesn’t need my money. That’s always a relief.

‘Fast Car.’

Fast Car, Tracy Chapman

Hmm. DOCTOR STRANGE in 3D?

On the one hand, I watched the last one in 3D, because I figured it’d be trippy (and I was right). On the other hand, I hear that this DOCTOR STRANGE is less trippy and more weird. And on the gripping hand… the theater I usually go to doesn’t really have a 3D option, and the closest theater that does isn’t a really good theater.

I still have time to think about it, at least; I’m not going to see it until the weekend.

#commissionearned

In Nomine Revisited: Skeletons/SKELETECHONS!!!!!

Yes, they write out the five exclamation points. That’s how you know it’s Vaputech!

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In Nomine Revisited: Zombies.

In Nomine changed the name to distinguish their version from the regular kind, and I guess I changed it right back. This one needed a bit of a rewrite, actually. Some of them do, some of them don’t.

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Light posting day today, I know.

My SCA barony’s newsletter goes out on the fifth of the month, and this month’s was extra persnickety. I don’t know why, either. There was nothing about it that was particularly difficult to do, but it draaaaagggged. I was also up late last night, and that’s increasingly an issue for me. Dagnabbit.

Meh. I’m gonna go find some old gaming stuff, convert it to PDF, and publish it. That’s always worth doing, methinks.

Just updated my pledge to the St. Ann’s Center for Children, Youth and Families.

St. Ann’s is a local charity that works with, well, children, youth, and families. I thought it’d be a good time to increase my pledge to their teen mothers’ program, both on general principles and in light of recent events. I encourage others to do the same with their own local programs.