Fiction Foundry 13

"Did I hear some of you are planning to go to the Apes' game?" the pastor continued.  "If so, you better hurry.  The opening pitch is at 1:30."

Seizing the opportunity, Mike made his move.  "It's not too far to the stadium. If we left now, we'd have time to walk there."

"Michael, I'm not sure that's a--" Jeanine began...but it was too late.

"Yeah! Let's race!" Mary said as she turned and sprinted for the exit.

Big Mike looked at Jeanine.  "Honey, I'm sure they'll be fine.  Atherton is a safe place."

"Yeah, mom. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease?!" Mike begged.

Her son's puppy-dog eyes were the final straw needed to collapse Jeanine's will-to-resist.

"Okay, okay...I see when I'm beat. Just be careful."

"You got it!" Mike fairly shouted before giving his mother an unusually tight hug.  With that, the kids raced out the church doors and into a brave new world.

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Thirty minutes later, the trio were hot, sweaty, and (with the exception of Mary) considerably less excited about the ballgame.

Marvel's Inhumans: the view from Spring Road

I just finished watching the opening episode of Marvel's Inhumans.  Given the early feedback I'd read on comic blogs and YouTube channels, I was expecting to be dramatically underwhelmed...at best.

Honestly, I don't get all the negativity.  The show seemed pretty good to me.  It did a nice job introducing the internal dynamics of the royal family and slowly revealing what a backstabbing schemer Maximus is. 

While I would've preferred a closer adherence to the classic comic depictions, there's just some things you can't easily translate from the animated world to the live action one. (Exhibit A: the loss of Captain America's classic "head wings" in the MCU movies).

At the risk of labelling myself an unsophisticated boob, I'm going to say that I actually like the first episode of the Inhumans, and am eager to see more.

There. I said it.  Now, let the mockery and nerd-shaming ensue. 😎

Kronies: They're konnected!

From the little perusing of comic blogs I'm able to do, I've gotten the distinct impression that--as a libertarian--I'm part of a minority of superhero fans. 

Imagine my joy, then, when I ran across the Kronies (a tongue-in-cheek gibe at the corruption that comes with leviathan government).  Though these brilliant products of John Papola's Emergent Order are currently just jokes, here's hoping for the advent of Kronies comics.  If the cartoon short is any indication, it would be epic.