So I’ve been having fun. Kind of.<\/p>\n
Weekend trip to Bangalore after a long time. Couple of KQA quizzes, a 1500 Rs gift voucher for Premier book stall, and a bunch of comics that dark_knight_245<\/a> had brought back for me from among the stuff in the States ( part of my loot with Carthik). Won the open quiz, spent the 1500 Rs on rather giggle-inducing finds. The first thing my eyes could discern on the shelves was a copy of Sergey Lukyanenko’s Night Watch<\/i>, the first in this trilogy that has been adapted into a Russian film of the same name and has earned huge accolades everywhere. The Oxford Book of Modern Phrase and Fable<\/i>, the Indian edition, which came for quite cheap. <\/p>\n What completely blew my mind was the comics. The frigging thing was heavy<\/i> ( well, d-uh, it would<\/i> be, I guess, being 13 kilos and all), and I can only say – Dibyo, respect, man, You made my month! <\/p>\n For those who are interested in what it contains – Geoff Darrow and Frank Miller’s Hard Boiled<\/i>, Shaolin Cowboy<\/i> and Big Guy and the Rusty the Boy Robot<\/i>. The Spirit magazines from the 1970’s, published by Kitchen Sink Press ( issues 17-70, the Spirit: The First 99 Dailies), a signed copy of Come in Alone<\/i> – a collection of Warren Ellis’s writings on comics, the first twelve issues of Planetary<\/i>, the last six issues of Miracleman<\/i> by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham as well as the TPBs of Miracleman: The Golden Age<\/i> and Miracleman: Apocrypha<\/i>. A bunch of New X-Men issues, from issue 137-154, the Grant Morrison run. Half of the Grant Morrison Animal Man<\/i> issues ( 2-17). The later part of American Flagg vol 1<\/i> and all of American Flagg vol 2<\/i>. Trade paperbacks of The Filth<\/i>, Stormwatch: Force of Nature<\/i> and Stormwatch: Lightning Strikes<\/i>.<\/p>\n So I came back from Bangalore and read and read and read. I am still reading.<\/p>\n Heh. Heh heh heh. <\/p>\n Two more crates of comics just arrived. One more should arrive pretty soon. Stuff that Gokul sent me two months ago. I don’t really need to list them all down, I had listed them all already here<\/b><\/a>. My new flatmate<\/a> and I hauled them home just after lunch, him shaking his head sadly and putting comments about decadence and the dastardliness of it all.<\/p>\n Now, pay attention. Look at the date of the post. 12th September 2005. That’s the date when I wrote down the list of books that were stuck in the States. I bought them sometime between February and August 2005. Nearly a year and a half of waiting for the preciouses to arrive. Which is why they say that comics aren’t just for kids anymore, you need patience to get your hands on them! *snicker*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’ve been having fun. Kind of. Weekend trip to Bangalore after a long time. Couple of KQA quizzes, a 1500 Rs gift voucher for Premier book stall, and a bunch of comics that dark_knight_245 had brought back for me from among the stuff in the States ( part of my loot with Carthik). Won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}