Culturewatch

I think I've given up on trying to successfully write down all the comics I've been reading. There're just too many, but here we go:

COMICS:
-Thunderbolts (a good portion of the first year)
-Spider-man: The Other
-Batman: The Long Halloween
-Blade: Undead Again
-Every issue of the The Irredeemable Ant-Man
-Various current Marvel comics dealing with the death of Captain America and the Initiative.
-Kingdom Come
-Spider-man Loves Mary Jane, Vol. 3
-Most of the Stan Lee meets... 65th Anniversary series.
-A ton of old Doctor Strange Comics
-The complete run of Spectacular Spider-man

Also, I read the first two issues of DC's new Countdown series, which I thoroughly disliked. There's too much going on, and it's too focused on characters that I've never heard of before. This wouldn't be a problem except that they don't introduce the characters particularly well. You have to have been following along for the past year or so to have any hope of understanding the story. Again, this wouldn't be the problem if they weren't the first two issues of a brand new series. A reader should be able to pick up a new series and be able to follow it from the start. Hell, Spider-man mentions his origin in almost every single issue. So I dunno, trying to keep track of all the different alternate universe Robins and Joker's daughter and such makes my head hurt.

Movie-wise, it's just one lonely entry...

MOVIES:
-Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

I actually really enjoyed Pirates 3. Granted, it was way too long, and the plot was utterly incoherent (hey, remember that Calypso story with no payoff?) but it was silly fun summer entertainment. Still doesn't match up to the first one, though... not even close.