Poster of the Year?

Having just come from the Pittsburgh Comicon Festival (more - much more - on that later), I'm more than a bit hesitant to go into fanboy mode (long story short, Comic Book Guys = Creepy). Nevertheless, this is some blisteringly iconic imagery, deliberately cool but inventive enough that it not only avoids, but leaps over the usual pitfall of blatantly clamoring for attention. My most anticipated summer film just went up three more notches on the excitement scale.

A word on the direction I'm hoping to take this blog in. Recently, I came to the somewhat obvious realization that this blog has been, in more ways than one, something of a diary for me. Having never been able to effectively keep one in writing (despite many tries), this is something I'd like to run with. Therefore, you can expect more consistent posting on more random topics: things I read in the news, feelings on our political landscape, and whatever idiots I may run into when I see Iron Man.

For starters, I'll point you to this fascinating news piece, concerning the largest giant squid ever caught, actually designated as the 'colossal' squid, an even larger species. A fan of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea since I can remember and an aspiring marine biologist during much of my grade school existence, this has always been a fascinating arena for me, the deep ocean being a greater mystery to us than much of outer space. Maybe this would help to explain the borderline-profound experience I had with The Wild Blue Yonder....