Time Marches
Even in times of tragedy, time marches forward. The Angels played their first game without Tyler Skaggs last night and while they had a moment of silence to honor their fallen teammate, nothing is gonna make up for missing him. …
Tag: The Rook
The Rook Chapter 5 – Controlling the Action
Heading in to chapter 5 of The Rook, I feel kinda a sense of relief. We got through our first meeting with Gestalt, in the last chapter, without any trouble and we confirmed that the interrogation we’re headed to is …
Fate Keeps Slowing Me Down
The first episode of The Rook TV show came out on STARZ over the weekend and I loved it! I was all set to put together a post talking about my thoughts when I learned of the tragic news from …
The Rook Chapter 4 – Meet Gestalt
Heading in to chapter 4 of The Rook by Daniel O’Malley, we’ve been given a purple folder view on our counterpart, Rook Gestalt, and I’m not sure I’d feel very comfortable meeting him. Not only is this basically the first …
Reading from Week 26 of 2019
Seventeen comics this week and a couple of chapters of The Rook…I think I put a decent dent into my current reading list but I’m still falling behind. At this point I’m not sure I’ll ever get through my backlog. …
Lanterns, Rooks, and Bour…A Good Start
Meet Gestalt, The Rook Chapter 4 The work day has started and after a cab ride, a drive in a Rolls-Royce, and a confrontation with conspiracy theorists, Myfanwy finally made it into the office. As a leader in the …
A Typical Workday Where Loki Takes Over
The Work Day Is Just Getting Started Today, in chapter 3, Myfanwy headed in to work and learned quite a bit more about the people her prior self used to deal with. She’s no closer to figuring out who …
The Rook Chapter 3 – Heading in to Work
Heading into Chapter 3 of The Rook, I begin to wonder what life would be like were I to work for an organization that dealt with the supernatural. I mean, the X-Files were part of the FBI, a part that …
First Days, Tedious Politics, and Hope
There are good reads and there are bad reads…The Rook chapter 3 turns out to be a pretty good one since we start to meet some of the other characters in the story. Who can be trusted and who is …
Supernatural Bugs and Too Many Comics
Today started out with our regular bug exterminator dropping by to spray around our yard to keep the number of nasties down and it quickly got busy. So busy in fact I didn’t have much time to throw together my …