Sometimes when you grow up with something as a constant in your life, you get so used to it that you end up not finding it in any way interesting or significant anymore. Then, it takes a bunch of googly eyed surprised people to remind you that this "Thing" is in fact not terribly common.
The larger part of the human population is right-handed [and in general right-sided], the smaller part is left handed/sided. And then there's the negligibly tiny fraction of the population who are both, aka ambidextrous. Natural ambidexterity is extremely rare. Most people who seem ambidextrous are left handed people who due to various circumstances have learned to write with their right hands. People who are naturally ambidextrous can use their hands/feet/body in general with the same comfort on both sides. So yes, it's not usual but it exists.
Every once in a while [a couple of days ago this time] someone catches me in the act, wondering, for instance, why it is that the piece of paper that's been in front of me the whole time looks it was written on by 2 different people. And then I have to explain that it's because the my left hand's handwriting is completely different from my right hand's. [Which is why I have to be careful not to switch hands in the middle of writing an exam or a legal document!] And then comes the big surprise, and the googly eyes.
So yes, ambidexterity exists. It's rare, but it's here... not a myth. I've been naturally ambidextrous since childhood. I write, fence, eat, catch a ball and do just about anything else with both my hands the same way [without need for any special practice] and the same applies to my feet and body in general. I can also write with both my hands, at the same time, in different languages. [On the downside: I have two handwritings and they can both make your eyes hurt.]
I however don't know anyone other than myself with this condition and I would like to. For instance I would like to know if other ambidextrous people have the same handwriting issue! So if you're reading this, and you are one, please do let me know. =)
A few days ago, a very nice Taiwanese friend of mine, Lolita, gave me a pack of Taiwanese beef jerky. Something that I had never before tried. =) At the first glance the package contents looked more or less like any other beef jerky I had ever seen before. But after I opened the package and had a taste... well, let's just say it's like nothing I've ever tasted before!! This was probably one of the bigger surprises I've ever had in terms of foreign food taste. =) Well, the Taiwanese jerky is sweet. And I mean really, truly, cake icing kind of sweet. There's also a ton of cinnamon in there, and it's generally softer than common jerky. After the initial surprise slap has worn off, I'm finding myself stealing bits from the package more and more. The taste is so unusual that keeps drawing me back. As you can see, not much of it remains now.... =P
YAY there's a new Satori demo, and it is as usual awesome! =) In addition to the usual Satori goodness, there's the soundtrack by Chaser to make things even more interesting. [If you've been reading, you've probably seen posts here about a couple of tracks by Chaser in the past... my favourite being "Petarda" so far!] So, check out the demo's Pouet page here.
So is it just me, or does anyone else think that without reading the new "Beyond The Fringe" comics, you basically end up missing out on a lot of important facts? After seeing the latest episode of Fringe, it's looking more clear now that unless all of the comic content is somehow going to show up in the series, anyone not reading the comics will only receive half the story.
The 7 issue comic series 3 of which are already out, covers quite a load of facts that can change one's view of the storyline entirely. Joshua Jackson, who portrays "Peter Bishop" in the series, is apparently writing the comics, and so far he has done an amazing job with them. Out of the 3 sets of Fringe comics that exist up to now, this one is by far the most thrilling to read. The issues are complex, exciting and very well plotted. There are tons of twists and tangles to keep your mind wondering for a good while.
Each issue is divided to 2 sub-issues, where "A" is usually following the main story line and "B" is mostly "what if"s and alternate possibilities. 3A is currently the last issue out, and I can't wait to read the next one.
Recently I randomly came across one of these quotation ecards that fly around the web, and the quotation somehow got into me enough to do a search and find the book that it came out of. It's called "The History of Love", by Nicole Krauss. I got me the ebook, and the 260 pages took me about a month to read [which is the time in which I usually read about 10 times that amount!]. I suppose you could say I meditated on each page. I think this is one of the greatest non sci-fi books I've ever read. Probably will read it again after some time. =) More info here.
A couple of days ago on the train back from Zürich I finally read the recent Marvel woohoow, a.k.a. "Point One". This 1 shot issue consists of 7 pilot stories for Marvel's upcoming story arcs for 2011, only 1 of which was of particular interest to me. I was very excited when I found out there was going to be something related to "Nova" in there, and well, there was. The "Harbinger" chapter is about Nova... except, this is "A" Nova and not "the" Nova. This is some Nova from some possible alternate reality, with a lower rank than "the" Nova... and there's no reason to believe that this story will somehow bring back our Nova. Also, according to the list at the end of the issue, none of the immediate upcoming arcs actually include Nova, so as of yet we can't even have a solid idea as to where this alt-Nova is going to show up. And that, well, sucks. =P
To be honest [and to repeat what gzillion other people have said already] Marvel is doing a pretty huge injustice to their cosmic arcs and characters in general. They've killed Nova and Starlord, and well, Adam Warlock is nowhere to be found. They also cancelled "Guardians of the Galaxy" altogether which I believe was a huge mistake. So at the current state of things, once "Annihilators : Earthfall" is done, there are no more real cosmic arcs. In addition, it appears that Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning [a.k.a. DnA] have absolutely no idea about what's happening with Nova which is horrible, seeing how they're the authors of the best of Marvel Cosmic. And of course whoever's writing FF, has managed to reset the Kree and Inhumans to their pre-Annihilation status which means all of the brilliant work of DnA and the rest of the authors of "Annihilation" and "Annihilation : Conquest" has simply vanished. So yes, a bloody load of injustice.
Anyhow, if any of you guys know anything more about what's happening with Marvel Cosmic, do let me know!
When I first started using Google+, the name on my profile was obviously my nickname which I had always used on my Google account. A nickname which by no means gives me anonymity, seeing that it has been attached to my real name all over the web, and even people in real world very often call me with it. The nickname has been around since my first days of hacker-spaces and various other tech sub-societies and as a result a lot of people would look for me by it, hence my persistence in using it...
When I received the warning message on my account saying that I had to use my real name, despite the bad taste that was left in my mouth, I went ahead and switched to my real name. I figured I was way too busy for the drama that would follow, were I to keep the nickname. That was a bit more than a month ago.
Well, big surprise, the drama came anyway. 2 days later my contacts started telling me that my Google+ profile was no longer accessible, showing a "not found" message. I checked my profile and saw the message on the top of it, saying that my profile was suspended due to my name not being acceptable by their "standards", and was waiting to be reviewed, which would probably take a few days. A week later, my profile was still suspended, I had received no communication from Google, and I had come to realized that my ability to use other Google services was also limited.
That was when I started looking for ways to communicate with whomever was in charge. First thing I noticed, was that there basically are no functional ways for doing that. I tried sending a number of feedbacks which clearly had no effect. Then I landed on the support forums which is apparently where Google intends for you to end up, if you go looking for help/support. Of course what you'll never receive on these forums is help or support. My requests for help were ignored and eventually buried, same as many others. Soon it became clear that a terribly large number of people are on the same boat.
While searching the forums for answers, I came across a few mentions of writing an appeal, using a link that should be somewhere on the suspended profile, but I saw no such link anywhere. Then I found out that the appeal link only shows up once your profile has been reviewed and "really" suspended. My profile seemed to not even qualify for that. So, for the duration of an entire month, my profile was stuck in the proverbial limbo.
By the end of the 3rd week, I was thoroughly inflamed. With everything I had read in other people's complaints, responses and stories, it had become quite obvious what the problem was. My uncommon name and even less common last name didn't look enough like a real name to Google. That's just so deliciously ironic, seeing that a simple Google search would have cleared out my identity. My name's all over the web. I have a couple of domain names and as a result who-is records which happen to tie my Gmail address directly to my name. For Pete's sakes, how difficult would it be to verify my identity?
Doing some more digging, eventually I found a link to the appeal form somewhere and sent a number of appeals through. Then a good friend of mine offered to talk to his contacts in various departments in Google... but what finally did it, was another dear friend talking to her contact in Google+ , and getting my profile released [thanks a lot =) ].
So now, after a month of bloody struggle my account is usable again, and that only because of my friend and her friend. I find many aspects of Google+ quite brilliant, but this experience has been a true disaster, and the whole "real name policy" is looking like serious folly.
As I once wrote in the forums, it was my impression that this was supposed to be a social network for people from everywhere. But these so called policies seem to be shaping the service such that mainly people from North America and certain parts of Europe can use it without trouble. In the past decade Google has slowly taken over the web so that one way or the other you're using some of their services, and now a lot of people who for some reason or the other can't do exactly as almighty Google commands, are in trouble.
There are many people out there who have very good reasons for not using their real names on the web. For instance, just look at the amount of political activity on services like Facebook or Twitter in the past year, by people from the middle east. Well, ban the use of nicknames, and you ban all these people. There goes all that political and humanitarian activity. There goes what was one of the most important contribution of social networks. There goes the platform for freedom of speech.
Of course these are only a part of the reasons people might have, for not wanting to use their real names. Google says that they want people to interact on Google+ the same way they would in the real world. Well, look around you. There are many people who don't use their legal names in their day to day lives. Plus, wake up and smell the coffee, this is the web, it was never supposed to be the real world. Google says that the real name policy is there, so that they can provide users with better service. Sorry, but would it have been benefits for users that you're concerned about and not your own pocket, matters could have been much simpler. Instead of suspending user accounts, you could just warn them of the possible service quality issues, leave them to use whatever names they preferred, and put an end to this grand fiasco. Instead you've bought yourself a great deal of anger....
And then there is of course the small and insignificant problem of those of us who have names that you have not heard before. I even know of people who's accounts have been suspended several times simply because they have uncommon names. So what exactly is it that we're supposed to do? Prove to the almighty gods of social networks that I'm actually called this? Well that would be pretty much the end of both my patience and my interest.
So thanks to my friend, I have my account back which is pretty important for my use of several other Google services, but as to Google+... I don't know. After all of this, I'm no longer certain that I'm all that interested in using the service. For the moment the only reason I'm sticking around is my connections in there. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what will happen next....
Ever since the news broke last year that they were creating a Tintin movie, I've hardly been able to wait to see it. On one hand it's a very exciting prospect to see one of my all time favourite books as motion picture, on the other hand there's always the worry that the movie will not do the books justice. It happens very often that the motion picture adaptation of awesome literature ends up being a pretty weak representation of the work they were based upon. So when the movie finally showed up in movie theatres, [and to my sheer delight, about a month earlier in Europe than in North America! =D] I turned my schedule upside down to find the time to go and see it, and last night I finally did. =)
Well, let me just say that this is easily one of the the very best conversions of a book to motion picture that I've EVER seen! Between Steven Spielber's directing, Steven Moffat's screen writing and some of the best actors in the British cinema, this movie is a real work of magic. And then there's of course the visuals... oh... wow! I can't believe how they've managed to bring the characters to life, exactly as I had always imagined them in my mind while reading the books. Everything is completely perfect, from Captain Haddock's nose to Bianca Castafiore's voice.
So, if you're a fan of Tintin, make sure not to miss this movie, and if by some small chance you've never read the Tintin books, still make sure not to miss this movie. Now I can't wait for the next one... I'm pretty sure there is going to be a next one! ;)
This is something for anyone who enjoys comics, "The Song of Ice and Fire" or both. I just read the first issue of the newly started "Game of Thrones" comics and so far I like what I see. I must say if you've read the books or even if you watch the series, in terms of story line there's basically nothing new in there. But still, the graphics are quite nice and this is generally a great way to visually review everything that's happened so far.
Last weekend Demodays 2011 [aka Buenzli 20] took place in Olten Switzerland, and I was finally, luckily able to attend it. It was an awesome party, and even more awesome was meeting some of the people I had only known by nicknames till then, in person. I also had a chance to meet with the founder of one of my top 2 favourite demogroups, Satori. The weather was quite lovely, the BBQ was great and all in all it was quite a load of fun. I only wish I had taken more photos. But the few that I did take, you can find here.
There was also a good number nice productions this year. The OHP demo compo was as always very cute. In the "interactive" category, someone had come up with a type-writer, auto typing one liners from various scene websites for the duration of the party. In the PC demo category there was a lovely new demo from Satori, and interestingly enough Calodox had a prod after pretty much forever.
The Satori demo, named "Burnside Odyssey" is definitely one of the most awesome demos I've ever seen. It really is a work of wonder, with breath taking visuals and lovely music. Some of those colours and patterns really send me tripping. Seeing that demo on the big screen was quite fantastic. Even though unfortunately due to hardware efficiency issues the demo was running at a pretty much slow motion rate, it still was a marvel to look upon. Below you can see a video of it, but it's best if you check out the exe here.
The one thing that I find somewhat less than fortunate, to be completely honest, is the result of the demo compo. I'm sorry to be saying this, but I find the winning demo completely and utterly dull. To me it looked like a poor remix of scenes from a few previous demos of the same group, dyed with a rather awful layer of gray on top. There were at least 2 demos in the compo that would have deserved the spot quite a bit more... but anyway, it looks to me like the events that followed have caused a bit of a drama... check for yourself here.
Much faster than I myself anticipated I would, I just finished reading the 3rd volume in the "Inheritance Cycle" by Christopher Paolini. Mind you, this is why I love eReaders... I read the 3 volumes, each between 700 to 800 page, in a matter of about 2 month while I've only had the time to do this kind of pleasure reading while waiting for public transit and such situations. The eReader gives you the ability to use every spare moment as such. Anyhow...
The first volume, titled Eragon, I found a tad bit boring. The story went forward a bit too slow for my liking, and it was lacking some depth. The second volume, Eldest, was more interesting. Just a bit more. The third volume, Brisingr, is most certainly the best of the 3. It's a lot more exciting, the plot finally finds its real direction and depth, there's much better character development and altogether it's fun to read. The only problem is that [although the 3rd book was released September 2008] the 4th and final volume won't be out until November this year. I have no idea why there's been such a huge time gap between the release dates of each volume of the series. So the 3rd volume ends at a terrible cliff-hanger, and now wait till the next one happens.... =P
The Inheritance Cycle in general isn't one of my favourites in the genre so far, to be completely honest. However, it's still one of the better ones, and worth a read if you have the time. I guess the main issue that I don't enjoy about it, is the lack of originality. Influence from Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and many other big names in the genre is too obvious, it pretty much slaps you in the face.
I also have to mention that the movie that was based mainly on the first volume, Eragon, doesn't really do the books any justice. Inheritance Cycle may not be the most amazing work of literature, but it's a 100 times better than that trash of a movie they've made out of it, which doesn't even visually resemble the descriptions in the text.
Of course my general view of the series may very well change [possibly improve] depending on how the last volume will turn out. If it ends up being as "good" as has been promised, maybe it'll find it's place among my favourites. ;) So I guess I'll just have to wait till November to find out....
Meanwhile though, I just started the first volume of "The Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin. Yes, the same series that they're basing the TV series "Game of Thrones" upon. The same one with so far 5 [and to be in total 7] volumes, each between 900 to 1000 pages. =D Huge undertaking, but I think I'm going to thoroughly enjoy this....
Earlier tonight, I received an email from the wife of a very dear, very special friend, Jack D. Logan, informing us [his friends] that Jack has passed away. I'm still in shock. I thought he was pretty much through his health problems and well on his way to recovery... I have no idea how this happened. All I know is that I'm sad, and shocked, and cold, and..... *sob*
My heartfelt condolences go to his family and friends, and everyone who was lucky enough to know him.
On a bit of a personal direction... Gosh, this thread of me losing friends has to stop. 2011 has been gloomy in this way thus far... first a childhood friend of mine passed away, almost at the same time someone I thought of as a friend turned out to be anything but, then another friend passed away and now this..... *sight*.... =(
Jack will be sorely missed. I will most of all miss the music he shared with me....
Continuing tonight's share of sorting through pictures, I've finally uploaded a few pictures of Aarau and around the new flat we just moved to. It's very few for now, but I'll add more pictures soon. Pictures from inside the flat will of course happen once I've actually managed to unpack, which is proving quite challenging with the amount of busy I currently am. =P Here's the album.
So far I'm completely loving Aarau. The city has parts like Toronto and parts like Solothurn. The flat is in a high-rise building some minutes away from the more "metropole" looking center of the city, and believe it or not right in the middle of a jungle/park area. Right on the north of our building block the serious green starts, and the river is about 2 minutes away on foot. It's a very unusual setting altogether. =)
So it took a tad long for me to sort through the load of photos me and Genox took from the Swiss National Day [1st of August] fireworks. But it's finally done, and you can check out a selection here in this album.
It was a quite a lovely day, starting with a good load of BBQ and ending with possibly the most exquisite fire works I've ever seen up close. And I'm not putting that lightly. We were on the top of a heal in Niederwil, so that we had a good view to all the surrounding houses and farms. It seems like the people of Switzerland make it very much their personal business [and not necessarily a government responsibility, as it is often the case in Canada for instance] to make the 1st of August celebrations as shiny as possible. Basically, every single house in the vicinity had their own fireworks, some of which were really really amazing. So imagine standing on a top of heal, in the middle of a circle of fireworks, quite a few of which put the Y2K fireworks to shame. Huge colourful glow raining on you from all directions. You try to catch everything with your eyes... and more than a few times I came very close to falling down backwards... It was completely insane and truly awesome.
Wow, SinQ's new track just took my breath away! I've been listening to this non-stop since morning... check it out, and if you like it make sure to visit his FB page here for more.
Don't ask me how this happened but here comes a 2nd new ASD demo in less than a month. And honestly I like this one even better than the previous. "Spin" was just released at Assembly 2011, and so not surprisingly won 1st place. =) This is certainly one of my favourites ASD demos. Download the exe here.
I am spinning out of control Drinking my dark side on a moon patrol Dropping an anchor on a concrete floor The links are dragging me out of the door
Can I close my eyes and see? Can I disappear and be? Can I play the absentee, In this cage I built for me?
Can I stand up where I fell? Can I spiral in my shell? Can I cast a binding spell, On this winding road to hell?
I am spinning against the wall Grabbing on corners when I feel so small Give into impulse as I drop the ball Breaking the habits I cannot recall
Can I close my eyes and see? Can I disappear and be? Can I play the absentee, In this cage I built for me?
Can I stand up where I fell? Can I spiral in my shell? Can I cast a binding spell, On this winding road to hell?
I am spinning and the world is still Pointing the finger on the things I feel You find me exhausted and crawling uphill To colourful nightmares against my will
Can I close my eyes and see? Can I disappear and be? Can I play the absentee, In this cage I built for me?
Can I stand up where I fell? Can I spiral in my shell? Can I cast a binding spell, On this winding road to hell?
Can I burn my wings and fly? Can I justify a lie? Can I turn my back and cry? Can I be there when I die?
TaaDaaaaaaaa! From ASD's magic vault, comes out yet another work of wonder! =) Check it out and enjoy! As always I suggest you download the executable from here. Below the video you can see the lyrics to the soundtrack, which by the way I find quite brilliant.
Who would you rather kiss on the very first date if you had to chose? How big a bet you'd make on your very first game if you couldn't lose? What would you rather wear on the very first dance with the one you like? And how would you really sing on a difficult song with a broken mike?
Small decisions, life incisions, big in retrospect Bracing gently, consequently, the butterfly effect.
Where would you rather go on your very last June that you spent apart? What would you leave behind on your very last smile before you depart? Who would you rather kiss on your very last chance of another start? And how would you rise again on a difficult slope with a broken heart?
Small decisions, life incisions big in retrospect. Scopeless seeding, always feeding, the butterfly effect.
Just finished reading "Silver Surfer: In Thy Name". A 4 volume comic series published during 2008. Totally loved it. Really really enjoyed the cynical theme of the story, very much reminding me of today's global politics. Totally recommended to anyone into Silver Surfer or superhero comics in general.
I just feel like mentioning this, because recently I was talking to a couple of friends about it... ;)
Bones and Castle are both TV series that I like and I watch [whenever I get a chance, which usually means so many episodes at once...]. But seriously, how can anyone not see that Castle is totally a Bones rip off?
I've been a fan of Bones since it first showed up in 2005. I find the series to be a very interesting one, and generally not brainless entertainment. The story lines are complex and sophisticated. Also full of interesting scientific facts, and I can even see a touch of sci-fi in there rather often. I do consider myself a fan of the series and I try to catch all the episodes even if it means late night marathons.
Castle on the other hand... well... let me see how to put this. Castle seems to have borrowed much of Bones' structural elements. The cop and the novelist, the touch of romance, the adventurer and the conservative, the single parent... and many more details of Bones can be seen in Castle. But of course all of that does not in any way mean that Castle's story lines are EVER as interesting as Bones'. Castle is a very usual mystery/crime/cop TV series. It's rather entertaining and often enjoyable to watch, but I watch it for smiles only, and I don't find any thrill what-so-ever in it's plots. So all in all I don't think I'd really call myself a fan of the series, and I don't mind missing episodes here and there.
So yes, that's how I compare the 2. I sort of like Castle but I very much see it as a rather weak Bones rip-off.
Oh, and I must say that I'm so looking forwards to seeing Bones season 7. The way season 6 ended was pretty insane... ;)
And I just finished reading the last issue of Silver Surfer 2011, 5 issue comics. As it is often the case with Silver Surfer, it was poetic, painful, sad and pretty impressive. So yes, if you're a Silver Surfer fan in general, chances are you're going to enjoy this quite a bit. Oh, and don't forget to check out the recent 4 issue "Annihilators". That one's also pretty cool.
Also on my current reading list: The 2011 "Mighty Thor" mini-series, as well as "The Thanos Imperative" which unfortunately I never got a chance to read before. And yes, you're not imagining things, there is a pattern here. It's all story arcs featuring the Silver Surfer. What can I say, I'm obviously a fan. =P
Back when the Angel TV series got cancelled, the fans of the series [including myself] were pretty disappointed. But not long after that IDW publishing and Joss Whedon came together, and in 2007 the first episode of "Angel: After The Fall" comic series was released. Since then I've been following the comics quite eagerly. In some ways I found them even more entertaining the the TV series were... so yes, you could call me a big fan. The series also had a lot of very cool spin-offs and side stories, my favourite of which was probably the "Illyria: Haunted" series.
Now, after about 5 years of pure awesomeness, the series is over. Last night I read the very last episode of the After The Fall story line, and tonight [if I can somehow manage the time!] I'm going to read the end to "Spike", which is the very last spin-off of the series. So yes, no more After The Fall. That doesn't make me a very happy girl. =/
I should say that I'm certainly not disappointed. The After The Fall series had a great story line, and a pretty fitting end. Unlike the TV series ending, with the comic series you get that feeling of closure. Everything has been truly well explained and concluded. But still, I can't help but wish that there was more! =P
Mind you, this isn't the end of Angel comics altogether. The publishing rights are being passed on to [or more like back to] Dark Horse Comics, and they obviously have their own plans for it. In about a couple of months, Dark Horse is realising an "Angel Omnibus" containing whatever they published during the time the TV series was still running [before the fall era!]. After that, as far as I can see, they're starting an "Angel and Faith" mini series, which apparently takes place after the events of the Buffy Season 8 comics [Dark Horse's].
I haven't read the Buffy Season 8 comics yet, but I'm hoping to manage that sooner or later. And I'm looking forwards to Dark Horse's Angel series. On the cons side, Faith was never one of my favourite characters at all... so... meh. But oh well, I guess I can only wait and see how that'll turn out.
On a bit of a different direction... in the entire After The Fall series, I found only 1 serious inconsistency, which is pretty interesting seeing how the episodes were written by so many different people. I sort of have a problem with the whole James turned Myresto Mor scenario. Anybody else find that weird? The James character was supposedly an angel for so long in the series, long enough to come across other angels as well as various representatives of the Powers That Be. So how did he suddenly turn out to be some sort of an evil demi-god? I mean, wouldn't other angels or even more importantly the big parents notice that he's just not one of the family?
I think I read somewhere that perhaps in a try to smoothen the situation, it was said that the Cordelia that came to Angel's help as he was dying, was not really Cordelia. But I think we all know that it was Cordelia. And heck, she wasn't the only one who would technically have easily been able to recognize James as a non-angel. But anyway... I try to think of Myresto as a new character altogether... and the plot was great enough to pretty much hide that little inconsistency.
I just hope that in the new Dark Horse Angel appearances, there's going to be room for Illyria and Spike, since they really are bloody fantastic characters and my favourites in the series. I also would really like to see what Connor may do with his new found powers, but I'm afraid we may never know, if the Dark Horse writers try to not make any references to the ATF series. That would be a huge disappointment, so I'm hoping they're not going to completely ignore everything that happened in ATF.
Anyway... enough comic talk... time to get back to studying... =P
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Friday, January 27, 2012
been able to wait to see it. On one hand it's a very exciting prospect to see one of my all time favourite books as motion picture, on the other hand there's always the worry that the movie will not do the books justice. It happens very often that the motion picture adaptation of awesome literature ends up being a pretty weak representation of the work they were based upon. So when the movie finally showed up in movie theatres, [and to my sheer delight, about a month earlier in Europe than in North America! =D] I turned my schedule upside down to find the time to go and see it, and last night I finally did. =)
were pretty disappointed. But not long after that IDW publishing and Joss Whedon came together, and in 2007 the first episode of "Angel: After The Fall" comic series was released. Since then I've been following the comics quite eagerly. In some ways I found them even more entertaining the the TV series were... so yes, you could call me a big fan. The series also had a lot of very cool spin-offs and side stories, my favourite of which was probably the "Illyria: Haunted" series. 
nconsistency, which is pretty interesting seeing how the episodes were written by so many different people. I sort of have a problem with the whole James turned Myresto Mor scenario. Anybody else find that weird? The James character was supposedly an angel for so long in the series, long enough to come across other angels as well as various representatives of the Powers That Be. So how did he suddenly turn out to be some sort of an evil demi-god? I mean, wouldn't other angels or even more importantly the big parents notice that he's just not one of the family? 
Illyria and Spike, since they really are bloody fantastic characters and my favourites in the series. I also would really like to see what Connor may do with his new found powers, but I'm afraid we may never know, if the Dark Horse writers try to not make any references to the ATF series. That would be a huge disappointment, so I'm hoping they're not going to completely ignore everything that happened in ATF. 
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