The Demonweasel Speaks

So I put it to the grindstone and I think I finally fixed all the computer issues we’ve been having. With the new graphics card things were running smoother and looking prettier, but it was crashing a bunch more. Thinking it was a heat issue, I did some poking around and ended up installing a program that displays the temperature from the computers internal sensors, raising the CPU up so it has more airflow, removing the case so it can breathe better, and taking the second fan that was mounted on the side of the case and suspending it in so it’s blowing on the motherboard. It seems weird that I’d have to go to such extreme measures for a computer that isn’t super powerful, but they are delicate geniuses. The result, it is not pretty.

Boston Legal was back this week, and it was pretty good. Standard kind of plot, but the clips of Shatner from “The Defender” were used really well. Maybe it was just the sentimental trickery, but the result was pleasing, and shone some light on Shatner’s character, which often just gets lumped into the “he’s lovably crazy” category. I’m glad that, unlike the Practice, they’ve steered away from over-the-top life and death seriousness. It worked with the nun-killer story, but after that everyone at the firm got arrested for murder at some point, or was about to die, and it was built up so much that you thought they were SWAT operatives or something. Thus far, BL has steered away from that kind of hooey. The closest they ever came was the midget guy/Betty White series of stories. Well, there was the “Lincoln holds Shirley hostage” episode…hmmmm. I guess I’ll just say that they’re skating on thin ice, so they better watch out lest they end up at the bottom of the lake with Picket Fences, Practice and Boston Public.

If you like Buffy and you haven’t been reading the Buffy comic…shame, shame, shame. It’s incredibly good. And if you love Whedon, and you don’t read his first issue of Runaways, also out this week (with Buffy #2), then double shame. It’s better than his X-men, and way more like a Whedon-style story than his X-Men ones. Top marks, people. Top marks. Not much else supergreat this week in comics. Avengers: The Intiative is a better comic than a superfluous Avengers title should be, and Scalped continues to be consistently good. Omega Flight #1 was good, but it suffers from that whole “Is the first issue of this team’s book, but the team doesn’t even show up because we need to stretch the story out more for *drama* rather than have all the folks we announced were going to be in it, much less have on the cover, actually be in the book, they show up issue #3-ish” thing that just drives me nuts in first issues. We already know the premise before we even buy the book, give me that *plus* something new in the first issue or I’m bored. There’s too many good comics being made today for one to survive with a boring first issue.