Currently reading...

The last of the 30 Day Book Meme questions. I'm going to miss these.

30 Day Book Meme: – Day 30 – What book are you reading right now?

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. It was on my 'to be read' list a few days ago.

Also a huge pile of comics: Wolverine, Wolverine: Origins, Dark Avengers and Dark Wolverine.

The plague...

I woke up this morning with a sore throat and a horrible cough and seriously considered never getting out of bed again. After vast quantities of fruit juice and chicken soup I'm feeling a little better. Even walked over to the library to return (and get) library books, and buy bird seed. Little feathered guys must not go hungry.

I can't complain too loudly: everyone I know, just about, had this last week.

So now: curling up under blankets with a book sounds like a good idea.

Daken's Top Ten Moments...

Just because I'm having fun playing with Daken, Wolverine's son, I thought I'd list his ten best moments, in chronological order:

1. Seeing his mother. ( She died... )

2. Hunting with ( his father. )

3. Baiting Ares. ( Who would have the... )

4. Propositioning Venom. ( Yes, Venom... )

5. Mind games with ( Norman Osborn. )

6. Daken turns down the gods themselves. ( The Norns... )

7. Daken kisses Bullseye ( on the battlefield )

8. Daken escapes the siege. ( It's a disaster... )

9. The pickpocket in Rome. ( On his own... )

10. A phone call from Johnny Storm, the hothead ( of the Fantastic Four. )

And a special bonus moment from Dark Wolverine #84: on the battlefield, seeing his side being annihilated and their cause lost, Daken finds his own values: