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Kaizoku Sentai Goukaiger as Super Sentai’s “Flashpoint”

by Adrian J. Watts on April 5, 2013, no comments

I haven’t had the world’s best luck getting into DC comics. I was born around the time the first Crisis on Infinite Earths event happened, so by the time I started reading I already had the “But what if they do another Crisis and all the stuff I’ve invested in is retconned?” feeling in the back of my head. [...]

Writing: just do it

by Adrian J. Watts on March 27, 2013, no comments

It has been a very, very long time since I have written anything productive, either for fun or profit. Recently, I became quite attached to an idea, plotted it all out, and decided to give it a fair go; I’ve set aside quite a chunk of writing time to get this project done. Today, I started. And… [...]

Writing in your head

by Adrian J. Watts on March 26, 2013, no comments

Over the years, particularly my first couple of years at university, many people have been amazed by how I seem to be able to start writing as soon as I’m allowed. I don’t need to crack open books and look up references, or spend days studying and memorising information before an exam. I’m cool and [...]

Avengers Alliance Hero File #001: Hank Pym

by Adrian J. Watts on March 22, 2013, no comments

For a long time I’ve wanted to post about various comic characters and what I think of them. There hasn’t been much of a chance to segue into it, but I realised earlier today that with the recruitment system in Marvel: Avengers Alliance there is a chance to consider each character individually and think about how I [...]

Sometimes, things I read on the Internet irritate me

by Adrian J. Watts on February 21, 2013, no comments

I occasionally come across things online that irritate me. Most of these things can be dismissed, as most people know they’re rubbish. But sometimes there’s a “perfect storm” that lets these things get to me – in this case, I’m very ill (so very irritable); the material is absurd; and it is published on a [...]

Australia’s choking waterways and why flamingos are pink

by Adrian J. Watts on January 9, 2013, no comments

Yes, yes, even I sometimes forget that I am a science nerd, but after waking up to the news every morning about the Tweed River being “choked” with blue-green algae, all I can think about are flamingos. Why? Well, have you ever stopped to wonder why flamingos are pink? You might imagine it is because [...]

My play philosophy in Marvel: Avengers Alliance

by Adrian J. Watts on January 9, 2013, no comments

After initially being put off by it, I am now addicted to Marvel: Avengers Alliance on Facebook, to the point of planning work, meals, other hobbies and sleep around it. (Seriously – I adjust my alarm clock to make sure I wake up when a long remote ops deployment is finished so I can re-depoly ASAP.) [...]

2012 Tops

by Adrian J. Watts on January 1, 2013, no comments

I just posted a list on Facebook of my favourite “new” things from 2012, and figured I’d also post it here – starting the new year by wrapping up the old! My top (new) things of 2012: MOVIES 1. The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Kamen Rider Fourze x OOO: Movie Taisen MEGAMAX 3. Dark Shadows 4. [...]

Dredd and the reality of heroic icons

by Adrian J. Watts on November 6, 2012, no comments

I saw Dredd a couple of weeks ago. I am typically not a fan of UK comics, with the exception of the 1990s Marvel UK stuff and the 1980s Death’s Head, Transformers and Dragon’s Claws books by Simon Furman, but I saw this after hearing the eponymous character’s actor talking about how, in a costume like that of Judge Dredd, you [...]