Previews February

Angel & Faith #9 Rebekah Isaacs Var Cvr (p. 50 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Btvs Season 9 Freefall #8 Jeanty Var Cvr (p. 51 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Reset #1 (of 4) Bagge Cvr (p. 59 – SRP: $3.50)     Dark Horse
Saga #2 (MR) (p. 216 – SRP: $2.99)     Image Comics
X-Factor #234 (p. 62 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics

Added Reset to my pull list. Could be interesting, could be weird – only 4 issues so I am willing to give it a go.

3DS Usage 2011

tl;dr My son is a gamer. My daughter not so much.

All screenshots were taken on December 13th 2011. The son’s 3DS has been in usage since early June 2011 and the daughter’s 3DS since April 2011 – ie. roughly 7 months and 9 months respectively.

A funny thing to note is that while the daughter’s usage of the 3DS has declined since the initial phase (where anything new is used constantly) the son’s usage hasn’t really seen any drop. To be fair he also used the daughter’s 3DS before he got his own, so the stats are a bit skewed.

Also note that the scale on the son’s 3DS goes to 80 hours – on the daughter’s it is 60 hours.

The main points are as follows:

Son Daughter
Number of titles played 46 42
Steps taken 26433 39264
Favorite game Lego Star Wars III: The Clone War

Played 127 hours

New Super Mario Bros.

Played 43 hours

Play time 288 hours total

41 hours per month

1.3 hours per day

115 hours total

12 hours per month

0.4 hours per day

 

For more details look at the pretty pictures below.

Previews January

A new year but still not a lot of new blog posts…

Angel & Faith #8 Steve Morris Cvr (p. 40 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Btvs Season 9 Freefall #7 Noto Cvr (p. 41 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Empowered TP Vol 07 (C: 0-1-2) (p. 51 – SRP: $16.99)     Dark Horse
Channel Zero TP (C: 0-1-2) (p. 52 – SRP: $19.99)     Dark Horse
Saga #1 (MR) (p. 182 – SRP: $2.99)     Image Comics
X-Factor #233 (p. 60 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics

Lots of good stuff this time. Saga by Brian K. Vaughan looks very interesting – a big story set in a big universe. More Empowered is always (always!) great. And a Channel Zero collection with all the issues. Channel Zero has always been one of my favorite (way too short) series, and I am missing an issue so this collection is just right for me. Now they just need to reprint the t-shirt as I am also missing one of those.

Previews December

Angel & Faith #7 Steve Morris Cvr (p. 30 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Btvs Season 9 Freefall #6 Noto Cvr (p. 31 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
X-Factor #231 Xregg (p. 58 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics
X-Factor #232 Xregg (p. 58 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics
Kick-ass 2 #7 (of 7) (MR) (p. 70 – SRP: $4.99)     Marvel Comics
Rasl #14 (MR) (p. 266 – SRP: $3.50)     Cartoon Books

Previews November

Angel & Faith #6 Steve Morris Cvr (p. 28 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Btvs Season 9 Freefall #5 Morris Cvr (p. 29 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
X-Factor #230 Xregg (p. 73 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics

Previews October

Angel & Faith #5 Steve Morris Cvr (p. 26 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Btvs Season 9 Freefall #4 Morris Cvr (p. 27 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
X-Factor #228 (p. 63 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics
X-Factor #229 Xregg (p. 63 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics
Kick-ass 2 #6 (MR) (p. 75 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics
Too Much Coffee Man #1 Facsimile Ed (MR) (p. 257 – SRP: $3.99)     Boom! Studios
Rasl #13 (MR) (p. 263 – SRP: $3.50)     Cartoon Books

For some strange reason Too Much Coffee Man is not part of my collection. It will be now.

Feeling Sophisticated

On our way home the hotel the wife and I decided to stop by the ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus. We had been talking about it for a long time but never got around to it and after a relaxing weekend without any kids it seemed appropriate to finish it off by being sophisticated (or at least pretending to).

The new rainbow thingie at the top of the building is an incredible sight – even if I haven’t got the slightest clue as to what the artist was trying to say with this work. There was also an exhibit where you were walking around in rainbow colored fog with very low visibility. Combine that with a bunch of school kids running around in there and you get quite an exciting experience.

No Kids

The wife and I decided that we deserved some alone time so we handed of the kids to my in-laws and went for a weekend get-away at Hotel Vejleford.

The hotel and spa was simply great. It was a weekend of relaxation, beautiful nature and great food. I highly recommend it – and while the wife was getting an hour-long massage I managed to sneak off and go read some comics :-)

Previews September

Angel & Faith #4 Rebekah Issacs Var Cvr (p. 28 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Btvs Season 9 Freefall #3 Jeanty Var Cvr (p. 29 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Dollhouse Epitaphs #5 (of 5) Phil Noto Cvr (p. 48 – SRP: $3.50)     Dark Horse
X-Factor #227 (p. 68 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics

The runaway flip-flop

Don’t expect anything about electronics here – by flip-flop I mean the shoe.

I get home from work on Friday and I notice that the daughter’s flip-flop is looking kind of lonely.

I feel so lonely...

I ask her about it and get the reply “it’s on the roof” as if that’s the most natural thing in the world. She goes on to explain how it got up there and apparently it all makes perfect sense to her but all I am left with are more questions. Kids.

The roof, the roof...

Luckily for me the son is an avid collector of all kinds of stick, twigs and branches so I pick out a nice long stick with a V-shape at the end and lift the flip-flop down from the roof. Yay, dad is a hero!

Together again

Not the most interesting story but it felt absurd when I was in the middle of it, so I had to write it down.