Long, lazy days

I've postponed my trip by a few days - leaving Tuesday night now - which at least gives me a chance to unwind a bit at home. What with one thing and another, that's been lacking in this trip over.

Mom's a bit of a Raymond fan, and over the last couple of years, I've been gifting her season-pack DVDs. I've spent the last couple of days watching some of them. Raymond reruns can be seen on TBS & WB, and I've never really figured out what season each episode was from (and that can be figured out from the introductory piece during the credits). I'm surprised how much of Seasons 1 & 2 I've actually watched. But no matter, they're well-written funny episodes, and a delight to watch.

I'd also visited a bookstore and picked up a few comic books - "Asterix and the Class Act", "Tintin in the Congo" (technically, I have the original comic in scanned format that I'd downloaded years ago), and "Valley of Cobras".

It feels good to settle back with an Asterix or Tintin comic again. While Tintin books are available in the US (usually in the small size compendium volumes), there's something about reading these comic books in larger editions. Maybe its nostalgia for childhood here, I dunno. But whatever the reason, I've decided that I am going to have a collection of Asterix & Tintin comics in a few years.

On the subject of comic books, I would trade my 25 grams for English (translated, that is) copies of "Leonard" and "Lucky Luke" comics, but alas they've been out of print for years.

Comments

[Vee]

for some reason, the newer Asterix stories are this short of boring. is that just me, or does anyone else agree?

[Kartik Anand]

I read the one about Atlantis - yes, very below average.

Previously there were two guys who wrote the comic - one came up with the content and the other did the artistic/graphical work. The content guy passed away a while ago - as such for all the newer comics, the content is being written by the artistic/graphical guy...

[Axe]

It wasn't ALL bad when Goscinny died. Refer to this page for a list of Asterix volumes, sorted accordingly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_volumes

Uderzo's done a couple of good ones by himself ... Great Divide, Land of Black Gold, Asterix & Son.

But yeah, the last few have been a little disappointing. Mind you, Asterix & The Actress wasn't all that bad. Not as bad as All At Sea or Falling Sky.

[Kartik Anand]

Don't you mean 21 grams ... weight of a soul and all that (as said in the movie, 21 grams)....