I'm Gonna Be a Daddy!

I have been dying to post this, but I just got permission from my wife to do so. We are 12 weeks pregnant tomorrow. The baby is due mid-October. We have chosen names for a boy and a girl. We are not 100% sure yet if we are going to find out the sex of the baby. There is alot to this story, but I am not 100% comfortable posting everything just yet. Who knows. I just wanted to share this awesome news! :-)

Happy Birthday To Me...

Today I turned 32. Wow. I am getting old. Sometimes I feel much older than I am, sometimes I feel much younger. My in-laws came over today to celebrate. I'll be getting together with my family this weekend. My wife bought me an Ipod Nano. Pretty cool. I bought her one for Christmas. It is so small I am half afraid I'll end up breaking it but I think it'll be okay. My in-laws bought me a couple shirts and a gift card for Itunes. I have a ton of cds that I'll pick and choose songs from and put on the Ipod. This will be nice to have for the gym. My in-laws are terrific. They brought over take out chinese. It was really quite good. I ate too much and believe me, I am paying for it.

You won't be hearing much from me about comics the next few weeks. I have decided to give up reading comics for Lent. Crazy, I know.

I still can not believe I am 32. That just feels...wrong.

I am hoping to go see Watchmen this weekend. We'll see. Things are pretty rough at work. They laid off 38 people at my plant yesterday. They also let go of 40 people at our parent company in St. Louis. On top of that everyone is taking a temporary pay cut. It's scary but at least i still have a job.

Well it is bedtime now. Have a good one!

Geez....32......

New commission received! Jeremy Dale

I decided that I rather like the theme of the commission I got from Breyfogle so i commissioned Jeremy Dale (http://www.jeremy-dale.com/) for a piece featuring Robin coming to the rescue of Wonder Girl from a villain of the artist's choice. Jeremy decided to go with Brother Blood. Jeremy did a really great job with this piece, as you can see for yourself here. Enjoy. :-)

My comics shipment from November

A pretty hefty month this time. I ordered a couple small publisher titles to see if they were good. in no particular order:

Terra 1,2
Amazing Spider-Man 576, 577, 578 (they actually shipped all 3 this timme!)
Golly 3
Guardians of the Galaxy 7
Kingdom Come Special: Magog 1
Kingdon Come Special; Superman 1
Kingdon Come Special: The Kingdom 1
Dynamo 5 18
X-Factor 37
Deadpool 4
Robin 180
Supergirl 35
Incredible Hercules 123
City of Dust 2
Nightwing 150
Stormwatch PHD 16
Booster Gold 14
Green Lantern Corps 30
Batman Cacophony 1
Captain America 44
Teen Titans 65
Nova 19
Wildcats 5
Gemini 3
Ultimatum 1
Gigantic 1
Final Crisis: Resist
Daredevil/Captain America: Dead On Arrival 1
Terror Titans 2
Avengers : the Initiative Special 1
The Authority 4
Secret Six 3
Justice Society America 20
X-Men and Spider-Man 1
Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel 1
Wingman 1
Push 1
Lost and Found 1
Titans 7
Wizard 207
Revelations tpb (Jenkins/Ramos)

Pretty hefty stack. Can't wait to dive into it!

All I want for Christmas....

Wow. It is hard to believe it is almost Thanksgiving. Christmas is just around the corner. Different families have different traditions. For example, my family make out Christmas lists but my wife's family doesn't. One way isn't right or wrong, just different. I made up my list this year and put a few trade paperbacks I have been wanting for awhile:

Deadpool Classic Vol. 1
Arkham Asylum: Living Hell
Strange Girl Vol. 1: Girl Afraid

These are on my Amazon wish list (http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2R6BN53Q4YSUM/ref=lst_llp_wl-go)

I would LOVE to be able to put commissioned art on my list, but it just isn't really practical. I have been loving Wellinton Alves' artwork on Nova. He does great 'cosmic' art. There are lots of talented artists who do commissions through www.comiconart.com but I just haven't been able to buy much lately due to other circumstances. Instead I filled up my list with practical stuff such as some tools, a chair to put in my comic reading area in the basement. I need a good sturdy bookshelf for my tpbs as well. I had to rearrange the set up in my basement a little bit. The city had to do some gas meter work on the houses in my area. they installed new meters and put new piping in the walls. In doing so they took down some of the art off my walls and a shelf where I geekishly had some action figures on display. I kind of like the new set up now though. I have an area on the wall where I can display 6 pieces of art framed. Right now I only have 5 up though. Thats a post for another time though. I guess I had better get back to work. Oh, and I REALLY need to figure out what to get my wife for Christmas..

1 Year Anniversary

My wife and I celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary this weekend. Our anniversary was actually November 3rd but we weren't able to celebrate then. We decided to go downtown and stay at a nice hotel for a night and go to a really nice dinner. We stayed at the Westin hotel. We got their 'romace' package. We received a bottle of champagne and chocolate covered strawberries upon arrival. The package also included breakfast in bed and a late checkout. For dinner we went to Morton's Steakhouse (http://www.mortons.com/). It was really good. Expensive, but it was delicious. We split a salad. I got the porterhouse steak and my wife ordered the Chicken Christopher. For sides we shared green beans and the bast dang macaroni and cheese we have ever had. I wanted to get dessert, but we had our anniversary cake that we had just picked up earlier that day. Our server surprised us by bringing out their infamous chocolate cake, on the house. It was delicious. They also took our picture and put it in a little picture holder which said 'Happy Anniversary'. They were really nice. The picture is the one I have posted here. We ended up eating our anniversary cake this morning before breakfast. LOL. Oh well. It was a really nice first anniversary. Tomorrow is back to work. Yay!

My comics for the month of October

Due to the high cost of shipping I get my comics shipped to me monthly. Sometimes it pains me to wait that long. Maybe I'll reduce the amount of books I buy and get them bi-weekly.. Anyways, in no particular order:
Amazing Spider-Man 573, 575 (they didn't send 574...)and annual 2008
Nova 18
The Boys 23 and 24 (I am probably dropping this title unless these 2 issues are phenominal)
Final Crisis 4
Creature Feature 1
The Odd Squad 2 (this has now been dropped, the art just doesn't do it for me)
Terror Titans 1
City of Dust 1
The authority 3
Nightwing 149
Supergirl 34
Green Lantern Corps 29
Secret Six 2
Deadpool 3
Green Lantern 35
Stormwatch PHD 15
Final Crisis Legion of Three Worlds 2
Titans 6
Booster Gold 13
Epilogue 2
The Mighty Avengers 19
Dynamo 5 17
Robin 179
Justice Society America 19
Wildcats 4
Secret Invasion 7
The New Avengers 46
Cyblade 1
Captain America 43
X-Factor 36
Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns
The Incredible Hercules 122
The Immortal iron Fist 19
Thor 11
Justice League America 26
Teen titans 64

In a stck that big there are bound to be hits and misses. We'll see!