Friends and family will probably be surprised that I need to regeekify, given that I never really ungeekified, but I find myself strangely drawn to geeky things lately. I picked up several graphic novels (collections, really) after having stopped reading comics in the mid-90s. The last series I read regularly were probably Sandman, although I picked up a couple of Preacher graphic novels a few years ago. Sandman writer Neil Gaiman and Transmetropolitan/Planetary writer Warren Ellis both have blogs, which is kind of cool.
I like Transmetropolitan, although I had heard rather mixed reviews of it. I haven’t read either of the Planetary books I picked up, so we’ll see. This regeekification project also involved a vist to a comics shop for the first time in a while, which was a trip. This shop is a combination comics/computer game lounge/food shop, so needless to say, the crowd was considerably geekier than I was even at my geekiest. The Big Lots next door provides a convenient source of pudding.
This blog is, of course, further proof of geekification. At least I haven’t started reading Slashdot again.
