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[fajrdrako]

Yesterday: apa collation. I went to yoga class, then had a terrible afternoon with menstrual cramps and no energy. Felt better after a nap. Donna came over for supper and we watched the pilot of Lost, and last week's episode Whatever the Case May Be. Love Jack in that one. Sayid too. He has cute smile, distracting me (at least temporarily) from Sawyer's dimples.

I thought the collation at dargit's place went well, and I saw some people I'd been wanting to see, and Alayne, bless her, brought me an old copy of People Magazine because it had a picture of Orlando Bloom she thought I'd like. And so it did, along with Matthew Fox and Johnny Depp.

This morning I read Supreme Power: Powers and Principalities by J. Michael Straczynski, sent to me by rivkat, with a recommendation. And many thanks to her, because it was extremely interesting.... Something I wanted to just read part of, but found I couldn't put down because of the interesting story. It reprints stories from Supreme Power #7 to #12, so it isn't the beginning of the story and it isn't the end.... It reminded me of Watchmen because it was an alternate look at the superhero genre, and because its protagonist is named Hyperion. It seems to be a story about a baby with near-infinite power sent to earth in a tiny spaceship (like Superman)and then raised, with certain brainwashing techniques, by the military as an American weapon. But the technology implied by Mark Milton/Hyperion and his ship has been used to create other super-powered people. When Hyperion learns he has been a dupe, he is mightily angry.

What impressed me wasn't so much the story, which has a lot of fighting and macho stand-offs and big explosions. It was the moral questions raised about uses of truth, and power, and choices. The pacing and layouts were great, but I wasn't too fond of the way Gary Frank draws faces.

Now I want to read more.