Sitting there with a mouthful of meat and the chewing wasn't helping any. Fifty and gone, working it works out the juices and with that, a dry sad clump of meat hangs and sits on the tongue, where's the stock? So that's the reason nobody in their right mind orders meats past medium.

March 15 and then half of the crew are off on the jet to lay down some of that Aussie brand of whatever it is Aussies brand in their existence. Certainly not cows, that's a pretty country non-specific kind of deal. What with the ranchers, the meat eaters and the wolves who bay at the door wanting that extra leg of Turkey Spam.

Joss Whedon brings back the Scoobies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1 and picks up right where the last episode of the show left off. Never read the first run through Dark Horse back in the day. Wasn't pining for it as much as now, and wasn't that big of a fan of the other stories. But here, as the season 8 of the show as it could have been, there's the gun for juicing up the anticipation like staying around to watch it on television.

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One thing to note when sleeping on the desk of a corporate environment is that there inevitably will be the rustling of other peoples pants and dress skirts. Especially if the desk in cushion (HA!) is in the main thoroughfare. Best find that nook underneath the desk where the shadows lie.

March 8 and here in begins the count down to the final days of daylight savings. Or Daylight Savings. However it feels it needs to be addressed. As salient a point as it appears to be on the calendars of those who look forward to idiot kids in the streets playing extended hours. Enough.

Now, Strangers In Paradise #88, puts the series two away from the end of it all. Closing out the chapter of their lives that has gone on for so long. Haven't been reading it in the single issue form, merely picking it up as a spectacle. More of Moore is absorbed in the collected and pocket book editions. Such a tasty treat of human emotion that be.

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One day after Valentines and it's Blaze on with Ghost Rider finally hitting the screen. Can't comment on much outside this constant drive to whiff the film poster hanging at the entrance of the Comic Shop. Them smaller ones which disappeared quicker than the larger ones certainly giving up more than their share of nasal delights.

And these are the ramblings of a code head.

Quick, making full of the head squeeze as the story jams into a tiny slit across the frow, and it's the expected reading sensation of Casanova #7. Where, like any short form worth its salt, a story starts and ends between the covers. It's diversionary, it's quick, it's enough to pass the cheap time on the walk from one end of a suburb to the other.

Which can't really be said same for a tome like Hellshock Definitive edition volume 1. Jae Lee's story started and aborted many years ago finally finds the last chapter to close out the book and wraps it up nicely all painful like with this collection. Not buying it though.

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February 8, as auspicious and as ordinary as another day. A day for new comics and a day to start remember a new number for questions made in person. They'll usually mark it as a side note, comparing, checking and look it up and down. Bums and the homeless think 19 at times. They're good odds to walk.

Turns out that #104 was not actually the end of the Clone Saga arc, which pools over into Ultimate Spider-Man #105 being the penultimate part of that multiparted section. Course, this never matters when everybody around spoils the storyline as they chit and chat in regular conversation. Still, that's the price you pay being six issues behind on reading. Whine, whine, whine, it's a drunken kind of stench.

Scalped #2 is on for the week and its first issue didn't make the quick pile to read. Said Native American mobster copy was also the victim of having a leaky water bottle crack a slit and wet itself. Carrying that kind of moisture really stands out when the pages crinkle down the corner and it's not a sound effect.

From the online preview pages alone, Secret #1 looks like it starts to have legs by the fifth page. Thing is, it only peeks at four, so the guess is on for what rolls around the page. Nice washy look to the art though, and with that, a feeling of things being a little questionable from the outset.

Real hang out is Fell #7. Tight and loose at the same time, it's crime fiction at it's most concentrated and easy to digest form.

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Bang a gong, and it's February already, shortest month of the year, cruftiest of them all. Best month actually, when you come to think of it. On the cusp of the seasonal calendar that breaks in from summer into autumn. Doesn't stop the sweating though. And you'd think it was only the obese to crank out the drip glands heavy. Woah.

Haven't been reading big on the whole Choosing Sides thing at Marvel, but when Peter Porker's about, look out. Ultimate Civil War Spider-Ham Crisis #1 clearly states one side to choose. Pork. Or ham. Or bacon. Pigs ears a rather natty though.

Ah, the series that is a gift unto itself, Kabuki #8 is expected in this week. It's the comic that keeps on giving, but certainly makes sure you wait for it. And what a wait. Like amnesia kicks in the side of the donkey with a mule to boot. Classy, but certainly familiar.

Much like the state of affairs in Ex Machina #26. Other people might not have this problem, but any series that hits the stride into the 20s, and the brain can't recognise it being a different number. Same case with Futurama. Ever eternal on the same number despite the contents within and the cover itself changing on the listing.

Two more additions, Jack of Fables #7 and Wasteland #6 are possible goers. The former sits ready to be read with the first five issues holding up with staples far from curling. The latter was a great read on the first issue and the two after that are also in the holding bay. Looking over the pile of "yet to read" it's unlikely, no matter how good these two are, that they'll join too quick.

A little time perhaps.

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It's on the trail of the backwash that is the Christmas/Boxing Day hues where all the tinsel that's made its rounds will find a box again for next year.

Back in again from the short orders of before are Outer Orbit #1 and The Spirit#1. One a crazy jump around all over the place that seems like a Harry Johnston epic of ribaldry. The other, a retake and reintroduction to the classic Will Eisner character. Of course, there's no need to really know about the history of it all to make it a nice read, but from those that have read it, it's a nice coat of sugar on top.

Not #8 of the series from Icon/Marvel, which appears ever so delayed and delayed like a pregnancy test you want to state a certain way, but it'll have to do: Kabuki Reflections #7. A tie-in to a documentary, not for everyone.

Speaking of art, "Course you would have customers," is the freshest quote of the week. All that which supplies a hatefill matrix of competition in non competing fields.

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