meganbmoore | names that make megan go "urk," comic book covers that make her squee and a bit more (Reply)

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.