names that make megan go "urk," comic book covers that make her squee and a bit more

[meganbmoore]

1.  I spent most of today reading Simon Brown's Inheritance, the first book in the Keys of Power trilogy and a rather good coming of age fantasy.  It starts off seeming to be a fairly generic but solid and enjoyable fantasy novel but consistently becomes better and better, succeeding largely because of Brown's refusal to take easy roads and a very well developed backstory(and actually, one that screams "he tried to get me poublished but they rejected me, but one day he'll rewrite me as the prequel.")  But there are 2 names that keep bugging me.

One is a mercenary named Prado.  He's a rather nasty and sinister fellow who shall no doubt have deservedly nasty things done to him in the next 100 pages(roughly what I have left) but I simply CANNOT take a man seriously when his name makes me think of a woman's handbag.

The other is that there's a town called Daavis.  It just...looks like a typo.  A consistent one.  And this is from someone almost incapable of avoiding typos.

2.  The cover of New Warriors #8 makes me a giddy fangirl.

Don't know if I care for the artist, though...

3.  I care nothing about Prison Break.  I haven't deliberately read anything about it since season 1, having realized that, even though it's supposed to be a very good show, it didn't interest me.  However...

When dangermousiementioned the brouhaha in the fandom, I knew she was talking about the male lead receiving a box, and the mass belief(apparently now a confirmation)  that it was the female lead's head inside.  And I realized...I know, in general terms, the events of the first 2 seasons, and various character names, as well as character relationships.  I find this to be rather strange, esp. as I don't think it's true of any other fandom that doesn't interest me save for Battlestar Galactica, and that's because I read a lot of posts ealier this year when I thought I'd like it.

Comments

[foenix.livejournal.com]

*snerks*

I am a Prison Break fan, and I called the box contents last week. Because I've seen Se7en. And Dean made the same reference last week too. =P

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I suspect pretty much everyone knew what was in the box. Even though it doesn't happen a lot, it's a really well known thing.

Methinks Dean had inside information.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

I had three seperate box references on my shows last week. It was kinda creepy synchronicity.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Methinks everyone wanted to get their pop culture-type ref. in before it was old news.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and I also read issue six of the Se7en comic...which details the head in the box scene. The hell? =)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

"Prison Break" lost me in season 2. I Wasn't a particular fan in season 1 neither, but MICHAEL SCHOFIELD IS VERY PRETTY!