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Reading & Film Round-Up July-November

I’m doing this, as mentioned in the previous post, to wipe the slate clean for next year, and to have an accurate count of how much I read and watched this year. To that end, some of these capsule reviews will be just a sentence or two, and some

Daredevil: Born Again

Just got to reading this for the second time ever – which is an odd thing to say about a comic I own two different editions of (the collection and the IDW Artisan Edition). Here’s the thing. Before this, in my naïveté, I only liked Born Again for the David

Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 2

(This continues from Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1.) The first X-Men comic I ever read was Rom: Spaceknight #32. In my childhood, when school was out for the summer, my parents would unceremoniously dump me at my grandparents’ house in Mumbai to get me out from under their

Autopilot Scheduling

After almost two years, I’m now working on enough projects at once that I needed to bring back a degree of organisation into my work life. I’ll be talking more about this in future blogposts, as I think out loud about what works for me. The first thing

Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1

In 2019, something very exciting happened to Marvel’s X-Men comics, which, by that point, were sustaining themselves mostly with a readership that was already thoroughly invested in them, as is the case with a lot of corporate comics these days. (Also, at the time, Fox wasn’t owned by

Dune Part 2

K and I watched Dune Part 2 last week, and my thoughts on this one are largely the same as my thoughts on the first one. It’s beautifully designed and mounted, with great sound design. I’ll definitely be buying the Art of book, as I did with the

Shower Thoughts: The Doctor Who Specials

So Russell T. Davies wrote three specials to essentially close out the 2005 Doctor Who series before moving on to the Disney+ co-production with a new Season 1, and it struck me that each of the three 60th anniversary specials, consciously or unconsciously, mirror the three eras of modern Doctor

Thoughts on Seven Years of No Smoking

(Content warning: This post describes the act of smoking several times, sometimes positively. If this might trigger or affect you emotionally, please prioritise yourself and feel free to skip this essay.) 30th September this year marked seven years since I quit smoking. When I completed 100 days of not smoking,