Echo

Can I just officially say for the record - I think Echo is possibly the worst Avenger ever in the history of Avengers. I mean, what can she do? She's hardly Thor. The Avengers should be might powered people. I'm sorry Echo, but it is true.
Marvel should have made Elektra an Avenger instead, and that would have been more shocking when the Skrull revelation happened. I loved that recent Avengers issue focusing on Elektra, and it would have been so interesting.

The big printer mystery

Did I mention that I received a new printer in the post (a nice scanner/copier/printer jobbie?) a couple of weeks ago and had no idea where it came from? I mean, it's great and all that, but I was slightly concerned that I may have bought it in a drunken stupor, and the other issue was that I'd just bloody bought a new printer!
And there was no clear indication on the package where it had come from and no details of the company it came through....
finally got round to sending a letter to the Returns Address, and got a call from BT (from a woman who could barely string a sentence together hehe) and apparently it's part of the deal of signing up to BT Broadband.
I mean, it's marvellous, but what's the point of doing a cool deal like that if you dont' actually mention it???! D'oh! NOthing was said over the phone, there was no letter with the printer, there's nothing on the website. What a waste of good Marketing!
Bless 'em.
Now I have the dilemma of how much to charge my neighbour who wants to buy it off me ;-)

Lost again

Just got to the season 2 finale on my rewatching of Lost from the start.
Season two hasn't been as bad as I remembered it. It's been interesting to watch 'Henry Gale' from a different perspective... The numbers/countdown thingy wasn't as annoying as I thought it would be - even Ana Lucia wasn't that bad this time round. Of course there was loads of padding - did we really need the Rose/Bernard episode?
Dying to find out what Libby's all about...Hope they tell us.
It seemed like Rousseau didn't know Ben - but then she goes on to say she's the father of her child?
Feel so sorry for locke! He's just a bit misunderstood - and had had so much shit happen to him - his dad is such a wanker.
Looking forward to watching season three again - the season that almost made me stop watching lol

Secret Invasion

Hello Mr Bendis

I have just read Secret Invasion Issue 5. Why is nothing happening? No more Skrull revelations? Who cares about boring old Super Skrulls (who have never posed any sort of threat - they're just...there for a fight)? And the first 5 issues have taken place in about what, a few hours?
C'mon B, you can do better... Make it exciting!

Thanks,

Martin

Reading UPDATE!

Okay, I am now reading In Search of a Distant Voice by Taichi Yamada. Only 160 pages, so manageable. One chapter down… An immigration dude has chased an illegal immigrant and had an orgasm in his trousers…
Okay…

Lacklustre

What the heck is going on with Final Crisis? Why is it so uneventful? What is happening? Secret Invasion is better – but only just. Come on, Bendis, give us a few more decent Skrull revelations please!

Acheivements

I thought about posting this a while ago, but I’m doing it now… When I was watching Andy Murray in Wimbledon – that spectacular several-hour match he won – and then I flicked over to Big Brother and just thought “what exactly are these Big Brother people achieving?” It’s just the slacker generation, I guess.
And this morning, I was watching the Olympics diving, and it was so incredible, and again the thought occurred to me. I mean, I’ve always wondered what it might be like to go on Big Brother, but I think now I would be a bit ashamed.
Speaking of the diving – wow. I just don’t get it though – how do the judges mark it so fast! Don’t they need to think about it???