Is it actually recharging to write New Year Resolutions? Or am I merely making a list of all the things I want to do but will, for one reason or another, fail at doing? Except for a few, actually, but those are the resolutions I know I’ll finish. They’re going to make me feel better about me.

Also for the new year is a new blog. Sort of new, sort of been sitting around getting not a whole lotta love (cue guitar and drums) from me for a while. A ’starting fresh’ thing, except my previous blog is just a whine-zone, other people free. I live with three other adults, only one of whom I’m sleeping with–which either gets them off the hook or hanging on the hook worse than everyone else, depending on the situation–so a people-free-zone where I can bitch freely to myself is a nice, pretty thing. Blogging is actually good too, so I can stop driving the rest of my house insane with tidbits. Time to take it to the internet. Probably time for me to be a bit more social too, anyway, so in the spirit of socializing and new years, I’m finally breaking in geeksicle, which has sat ingnored and sulking for quite some time. Must add ‘Stop Humanizing Every Inanimate Object’ onto list.

On to the interesting crap.

Like . . . Buffy Season 8? Comic? Say what now, Whedon? First of all, I’m still waiting on my Angel box set, you bastard, and secondly, . . . aren’t you a busy, sly little beaver. For sure. Astonishing X-Men (and this is an amusing little trailer), Runaways , Wonder Woman and now this? Obviously someone got tired of doing nothing and is back in action. I love seeing him in the comic book industry, the big lug o’geek that he is.

I don’t know how much I want to read about it before I can get my grubby little mitts on it in March, but the preview pages I’ve seen–featured in a link in the above linked page–are looking really good.

And in the upcoming year, we have The Dark Knight, which frankly, I couldn’t be more pleased over. (Fear the comma abuse, fear it.) Seriously. I have no qualms with these movies–I had to give up the entire idea of people actually following comic book storylines a while ago. And I don’t care what anyone else says, Heath Ledger could shape up to be a very, very fine Joker. Are there going to be Red Hood allusions, you think? Isn’t that a delicious thought? Gah, thoroughness. How I love you.

I really enjoyed the first one–I know lots of people half and half on them, but honestly, it is one of the best comic book movies I’ve seen out in a while and I enjoy Batman to an extreme, possibly unhealthy level. Again: Don’t expect movies to be like the comics and everything’ll be o. kay.

I also have this wild, wild hope that they’ll end the next movie with a random half-shot of a circus flier, complete with advertising the Flying Grayson’s coming to Gotham. Please. Please. Please. Make a woman happy, people. Extremely. I love my Dick Grayson. So hard.

And a brief message to Marvel. Stop it. I may have to actually start reading more than two of your series and damn you for it. Dark Tower? Dreams come true and it’s looking to shape up into a masterpiece. Love the books and hopefully I love the comics just as much. Just when I thought Marvel was only good because it had Gaiman and Whedon . . . maybe worth a second look. If I can find any other interesting series to pick up–am taking recs. Feel free.

My The Out of Office Countdown Calendar, chock full of stupid Bushisms and pretty numbers ticking down the days until we’re done with him. 24 months to go, huzzah. It is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Now to get the dayshoursminutesseconds ticker until he’s out of office to put on our mantle. Bless it.

If you’re not reading DMZ, please go pick up the trade right now and give your brain some love. Totally digging it.

Also, here’s an interesting interview if you haven’t spotted it yet.

So, New Year Resolutions?

Write 200,000 words.
Finish comic book script.
Find artist.
Finish Book.
Finish Book.
Finish. Book.