A successful summer simmers to an end

This summer was really great. I worked full-time as an intern at Walgreen's and after the 12 weeks there they continued to keep me on the schedule. This is excellent as I have been out of work.

Then on top of that my girlfriend won the Seventeen Magazine Pretty Amazing Girl Contest. Out of thousands of girls she stood out as an achiever, a beauty-face, and as a teen with "it-factor." Check out her blog, Zoe Damacela Apparel: http://zoedamacela.blogspot.com/ and buy the magazine, Seventeen, on newsstands as of last week (9/10/11).

Zoe Damacela, cover girl for Seventeen Magazine September 2011

I also got to catch up on some reading of comics. Some of the best were by Warren Ellis, such as Global Frequency which features a different artist for each issue. The one I really really enjoyed was Planetary. It's a love letter to comics all around, both past and present. The art is really fantastic, the storytelling is nicely paced and very smart. Overall, it was awesome. Planetary by Warren Ellis is a recommended must-read.

Now, I also read a bunch of other comics such as Crossed, by Garth Ennis and later by David Lapham. Then the Perhapnauts. Ultimate Fantastic Four is good too. Stray Bullets, Deadpool, Tom Strong, The Authority. Supergods was just the craziest shit. There are so many great comics out there and I believe that people underestimate the medium. There are stories that can only be told through comics in the same way that there are only stories that work in prose or on film. If you are a comics fan and have some knowledge of pop culture and various storytelling mediums then Planetary will please you to no end. It's really the comic that keeps on giving. And though it came out in 1999 it reads very fresh and has a timeless quality.

Farewell summer, until next year.