Wayhey!

This week's genius of the week - Daniel Way for the first issue of his Punisher/Bullseye series.

Now let's get this straight:

I don't like Punisher.

However, since Ennis has recognised that he's a total loonytunes psychopath in his own take on the character, he's got a lot more readable.

However, I DO love Bullseye and Way proved with his previous Bullseye's Greatest Hits series he really knows how to play with the character, layering dark humour with some inventive ways of offing his targets.

That trend continues in this issue and it's mostly setup as a mob godfather, who's had to adopt a rather... unconventional mode of dress to stay off the Punisher's radar, takes out a hit on the Punisher. The man for the job? Bullseye of course, who has his own vendetta against the skull shirted dude (as shown in Bullseye's Greatest Hits).

It's all rather silly, in the style of Garth Ennis' most blackly comic work, and thoroughly entertaining. Perhaps you shouldn't laugh when Bullseye kills a target by dropping a coin off the Empire State Building and watching it land with lethal velocity, but I did.

Can't wait for the next issue.

Way's clearly one to watch.

And in other news...

My new fridge freezer was delivered and I spent yesterday sorting it out and shopping to fill it up. It's larger than my old one so took more filling. On the plus side, I can now eat fresh food, instead of from cans.

Unfortunately, it's also deadline, so I probably will be stuck on a diet of burgers all week. :P

I need to lose some weight again. I lost a bit when I was doing the show, but I've put it back on.

I've finished reading:

SUNSHINE AND SAWDUST by Joe R. Lansdale (Cracking depression era thriller.)

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: THE LOST SLAYER by Christopher Golden (Alternate future type tale. Pretty good romp.)

ARCHANGEL by Robert Harris (Great political thriller that pisses all over The Da Vinci Code, dealing with the race to find Stalin's lost notebooks.)

JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL by Susanna Clarke (Likable, but overlong "Harry Potter for Adults" in which not much happens and magic is turned into a mudanity. Neil Gaiman liked it a lot apparently.)

GOD BLESS JOHN WAYNE by Kinky Friedman (Quality read, ball achingly funny as always and washed down with a few bottles of Jameson, a case of Cuban cigars, two Zippos and a tap dance rendition of Swan Lake by the lesbian dance class overhead.)

I have to read:

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CLARKSON by Jeremy Clarkson

AGGRESSOR by Andy McNabb

THE RUNES OF THE EARTH: THE LAST CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT by Stephen Donaldson

THE VESUVIUS CLUB by Mark Gatiss

I think I'll start the McNabb tonight.

Also, I've become addicted to I'M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE! as the sight of Carol Thatcher chewing live cockroaches is one I'm not gonna forget in a hurry.

Sid Owen owns.