For the folks who aren’t coming to all of the BDP, I thought I’d drop on a quick timetable for the day, so that they would know when to arrive

10:00 - Serenity (Pilot Episode)
11:30 - The Train Job
12:15 - Bushwhacked
13:00 - Shindig
13:45 - Safe
14:30 - Our Mrs Reynolds
15:15 - Jaynestown
16:00 - Out of Gas
16:45 - Ariel
17:30 - War Stories
18:15 - Trash
19:00 - The Message
19:45 - Heart of Gold
20:30 - Objects in Space
21:15 - Serenity (The Film)

Each episode is actually a little shy of 45 minutes, so there is a bit of leeway for toilet breaks and the like

mrBen

Over the last wee while I’ve been keeping my comic buying to payday (the last Thursday of the month) as going in weekly was proving to be a bit on the expensive side as I would always pick up more then was planned. Going in once a month seemed to fix this as I would get my standing order and whittle it down to a more managable amount.

Today, however, is a special day.

Infinite Crisis #5 is out!

Not that this means anything to whoever reads this…

(A brief history)

20 years ago DC Comics had several different properties which it had, over the years, acquired through buying up other publishers. To avoid any confusion the new characters existed on their own Earths and for the most part operated independently from the other properties.

Occasionally there were crossovers which, although enjoyable, were ultimatly confusing.

Then came the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a 12 part series which was meant to streamline the multiple earths into one cohesive DC Universe.

Unfortunatly, for a number of reasons, this didn’t work all that well.

In the 1995 DC released Zero Hour, another attempt at cleaning up the resulting mess. Although the five part story was good, it was a bit of a hellish crossover to keep up with.

And now, 10 years after that, we have Infinite Crisis.

The difference this time seems to be one of paying attention to detail and actually seeming to care about telling a good story.

So far it’s 3 issues away from the end and I have to admit it’s brilliant stuff.

For the first time in a long time I’m really enjoying a crossover and what it’s doing to “reset” the foundations of the DC universe.

Of course, after issue 5 it could all go horribly wrong…

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Actually I won’t, but it’s the only song lyric I know of that starts “It’s my birthday”, which it is And I’ve received a nice posse of books from the family - Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide from my sister (books 2 and 3 in the Ender Saga - I already own book 1), and the Serenity Visual Companion from my parents (a _wonderful_ book that includes lots of original artwork, and the entire original script, amongst a host of other information direct from Joss).

All of which means, of course, that it’s only 2 days until the Big Damn Party! It’s going to be packed (if I don’t know you’re coming by now, then you probably won’t get in ). Starting at 10am on Saturday, we will be watching the entire Firefly series, and the Serenity film. And it’s going to be, well, shiny! Should finish up at about 2315 (hours, not years ) by my reckoning - the longest party we’ve ever thrown, even longer than the LotR party from New Years Day 2005.

Roll on the weekend.

mrBen