Funny and unusual

Today I had some time off after lunch so I decided to go to a bookstore. It´s a type of flee market, a two floor store full of old books and magazines. Of course I went straight to the comic book section.


I already went there, several times but the reason I don´t go there often is it´s very dirt, all the shelves and comics are dust and disorganized. You need patience and hours to go deep and dig all shelves if you want to find anything you want and sometimes, you´ll not succeed.


Actually, I wasn´t looking for any specific comic, I just went to kill some time off but I found an old Prisoner limited series I didn´t read, 4 part mini-series. I also find some interesting stuff I will go get them in another opportunity but what really caught my attention was the cat I saw there, yeah a cat.


I knew that grey cat for a long time, he is a type of mascot of the place. He is a piece or work. he sleeps on the shelves, just like he is taking care of the comics. Interesting is when you ask him to move to another spot and he goes. He is really nice but very away, he looks to you, let you touch him and play but after a while. he moves, lays down and goes to his sleeping.


Sometimes, those small and amusing things really make our day, even for a little while, like this funny cat, definitively his way put a smile on my face.


Sad I forgot to take a picture but next time I go there, I will take one.

Bored (again)

I am kind of bored today, actually this whole week I a´ve been feeling that way. Nothing really bad happened to click on this feeling but it happened. In fact, a bad incident happened, some accounting problems really made me down, also boredom really affects me



I am sure after watching The Hangover 2 (I will scape from work later to watch it) will, is going to make me feel much, much better.



Until them, lunch and some more boring stuff is waiting for me. Ah! Hope my new comics arrive today.

Thor.

Yesterday, I watched Thor and what I can say, any doubts in my mind, it was a excellent movie.

I read toms of Thor adventures in comics but I never considered myself a big fan of Thor. There are amazing stories and runs, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Roy Thomas and John Buscema, Walter Simonson, Tom de Falco and Rom Frenz although after the latter I mentioned, I stopped reading his adventures, only his Avengers´s part, just that.

When J. Michael Straczynski too over, with his visionary and fresh vision of Thor, I became a fan again and since Thor #1 (once again) i've been reading Thor.

Thor movie really is what brought me back to the character in comic format, freshpoint but without the classic aspects of the character.

I had no idea Straczynski wrote the story, I have to say was amazing. He and the other writers really knew the game. They didn´t used a version of thor, instead, they mixed a variety of elements from the classic stories. Lee and Kirby´s run was there, Simonson´s Thor was there too, I just loved they didn´t used Dr. Donald Blake´s persona, really was a fantastic thng because it didn´t confused the non fans, and i liked too, even though I thnk Blake´s return to Thor´s mythology was another great things from Straczyinski´s mind and run, also, most of what he did was there, pleasing a big fan of his run myself.

The other characters were excellent played by their actors, Antony Hopkins´Odin was excellent, he portrayed all might father classy, like always, Tom Hiddleston as Loki was amazing! It was the real Prince of Lies in movie scream. Bravo, he was one of the best part of the movie, his moves, expressions, deceives and everything, Kat Dennings always cute and beautiful, Stellan Skarsgard was great as well. The Warriors Three were there too. I like them and they were great too.



Lady Sif by Jamie Alexander was so beautiful, she played her in an extraordinary way. She is now one of my movie crushes after that movie. I think the cast really got right in every choice for this movie.

Natalie Portman as Jane Foster and Chris Hemsworth as Thor had the perfect chemistry together. His Thor was flawless, from Thor´s fall to his return to grace, he knew the game and Portman, as (different from comics, which Foster was first a nurse and later a MD) movie´s Jane Foster was a scientist, really was the hook to make the movie relevant and perfect.

I loved Clint Barton(Hawkeye) appearance , made me want the day to watch The Avengers´movie, I just can´t wait for that.

The special effects were the ticket. The colors, locations, Asgard was huge, shinning and so living, like a real place not that fantastic making believe comics and mythology home of Nordic Gods.

If you have second thoughts in watching Thor, take this humble entry review as an invitation to watch Thor. From a die hard comics fan to others and non fans, it´s a movie you don´t need to read any Thor comics to have a great time in the cinema, go watch, you´ll not regret.

I´m back (again)

After some time off , I returned to this old and reliable blog. In fact I kind of put behind what I like the most, writing. I totally lost my thing, I realized I had nothing new to tell, which was my mistake because the real reason, what make any blog alive is to write on it, even if it´s an ordinary and senseless (not so quite) stuff.


I felt I was voiceless and spending some type on my other blog, Life or Something http://cpahl2000.tumblr.com I saw I need some space to write and I still have lots to write, even if what I write will not save the world or cure ant disease.


I set a day, in every week to post anything here, Monday will be the prime day to do it, when it´s not possible, any other day but I will write weekly I will try.


If you want, check my tumblr blog and here too, I also change the blog´s title, just a little. It will continue to be Thoughts but with something else.


Hope can be relevant and be a blogger (kind of lol! )

The Cape,

I just love The Cape! I stated watching because of the theme, super hero adventures and after 5 episodes I have to say, it´s one of the best TV series out there.

The series, set in fictional Palm City, CA, follows Vince Faraday, an honest detective who decides to leave the police force after he witnesses the murder of a new police chief by a mysterious individual known as "Chess". Faraday accepts an offer to work for a private security firm named ARK, owned and operated by billionaire entrepreneur Peter Fleming. ARK is petitioning Palm City to privatize the police and public safety operations.

An e-mail from an investigative blogger known only as "Orwell" leads Faraday and his partner, Marty Voyt, to a cargo train owned by Fleming's firm. They discover the train is smuggling implosiveWMDs inside children toys. Unfortunately, Voyt set up Faraday and delivers him to "Chess", who is Fleming the CEO of ARK. Fleming frames Faraday for the police chief's murder and sends his security team after Faraday (televised by News channels) ending with a tanker explosion.

The entire city (including Faraday's family) now believes Faraday is "Chess" and has perished in the explosion. Faraday is abducted, but then becomes accepted, by "The Carnival of Crime", a traveling circus turned bank robbery ring. Their ring leader, Max Malini, trains Faraday to use a special black cape for defense against his intended foes. Max convinces Faraday to not reveal his identity, as this would endanger his wife and son. He then decides to fight Palm City's corruption and clear his name by adopting the visage of his son's favorite comic book hero, The Cape.

Max Faraday The Cape is played by David Lyons, the aazing Summer Glau plays Jamie fleming /Orwel, an investigative blogger who wages war on the crime and corruption in Palm City. She becomes Vince's ally and helps him even though she is trying to keep her life and her reasons a secret. James Fraim is Peter Fleming / Chess – the billionaire founder/CEO of Ark Industries and the Cape's nemesis. He is a criminal mastermind and serial killer and is responsible for framing Vince for the murders. When appearing as his alter ego, Chess, Fleming's pupils appear as chess pieces, specifically a knight and a rook; it is revealed in the Season 1 finale that this change is made with contacts. He has an obsession with the game of chess, as he sees everything around him as merely a game, often using chess terminology in his speech. In "Scales", Fleming reveals he is a mechanical engeneer. It has been strongly implied that Fleming has multiple personality dissorder, as he has had conversations with his Chess persona - who urges him to kill everyone and .keith David as Max Malini – the ringleader of a gang of circus-performers-turned-bank-robbers known as "The Carnival of Crime". He mentors Vince after saving him and trains him to become the Cape. Despite being a criminal, he shows a strong knowledge of right from wrong, and abhors the use of killing, operating on what would appear to be a strong moral code.

The series has everything, action, intrigue, suspense, a real super hero comic in a TV series. Sad to not know if it will continue, another season is not sure to happen but if it only have only this season,I am sure I will always remember this series as one of the best I´ve followed and if you love The Cape, let´s make this extraordinary series continue.

Cruel Summer!

Last Friday, I decided to break free from my regular activities and I escaped to take a walk on the beach. It was one of the hottest days in Rio´s Summer, which is difficult, real difficult to not name a hottest day during the Carioca´s Summer. I will not write or try to describe how beautiful and was the day so I posted some photos I took so, enjoy and let yourself travel your mind to the beautiful Ipanema´s beach. have fun!

A New Beginning Of My Old Collector´s Life.

Two week ago, I started a new level in my collector´s life, I changed where I used to buy my comic books. Since 1991, I bought my comics in the same store/service but after almost two years of problems and bad quality service, they decided to stop the service of importing comics.


It is notorious I hate changes but I had to do if I wanted to continue to buy and read my comics, I have to say it was for the best. A good friend started importing the comics and now he is the store, if I can call this way. I felt a little nostalgic, after all I bought my comics in the same way but this new is totally different and much, much cheaper than the previous one.


These comics I received represented the November´s comics, was a huge amount but now it´s the way that has to be, weekly and in fact, I received another box yesterday and another one arrived and next Tuesday will be in my home. I am pretty happy, although I still got a big number of back issues but my friend found a place and we already ordered some, to complete this hole in my collection.





You can see some here, Superior, Sweet Tooth, Buffy, Action Comics and the box.

More of them.

Now you can see Superboy #1, Thor, Unwritten. Bellow you have zatanna, Superman, Detective Comics Gotham City Sirens, Amazing Spider-Man and Batman Inc.

I am very happy I can continue to collect and buy my comics and the most important, read them, was a dark time , the uncertainty of continue or not was really tough but now I am happy. I know it´s totally pointless but I love reading comics, since I was 6 I´ve been reading them and I just can´t stop doing it. I know, I am just a big kid