Ragnell, celebrating the second anniversary of her blog, is trying to spread a three things I'm happy about meme.
Here goes:
1) There's a new Suicide Squad Mini by John Ostrander, original creator of the squad. From his blog: "The first issue of the new SUICIDE SQUAD mini, RAISE THE FLAG, will be
out this week, I think, and newsarama has a preview (although the pages
are somewhat out of order). Okay, everyone who has said that they
wanted to see a new Squad written by me -- I need you to prove it to DC
this week. Let's sell this sucker out."
Apparently there's also going to be an interview on Suicide Squad in the October issue of Wizard. "with [John Ostrander], Bob Greenberger, Luke McDonnel and Karl kesel about the early days of the SUICIDE SQUAD. A cool sidebar has modern top writers such as Geoff johns, Christos Gage, Gail Simone, Brad Meltzer, and Greg Rucka talking about the influence those squad issues had on them."
I'm a huge fan of the Squad. The basic concept is a government program that uses B and C list villains and trouble heroes to pull off dangerous black ops missions. Several of the characters in the current run of Checkmate either originated or rose to prominence in the Squad.
2) I have a new phone. I've also made the jump to Verizon which has improved my reception. Now I can make calls in the subway or even my office. Imagine that. I needed to make the switch because my old phone, loaned to me a few years ago by my friend over at Power Leveling, was really at the end of its life. Calls got dropped after a few minutes, the 7 and hang-up keys worked only half the time, and it needed to be recharged just about every other day. I'm glad to have a camera phone again, but the feature I'm most excited about is the QWERTY keyboard. I've never actually learned to text quickly with a numerical keypad, and I'm already much faster with this phone. I may later pay extra and get all the email functions and such, but for now I'm saving my money for point 3...
3) I'm finally making arrangements for my trip to China. I'm going for the first time in late October and have narrowed my choices down to two tours that both getting into rural China and not just tourist hot spots. I'm currently trying to make the call whether to take a week of leave without pay and pay an extra $2k or so to get a 29 day rather than a 15 day trip.
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