Odds and Ends

ABC is going to burn off the remaining episodes of The Nine in August. I'm happy. BTW: I finally watched the eps that aired, and I liked it. The pilot was one of the best I've seen.

Speaking of The Nine, former cast member Camille Guaty (who was also a Prison Break Maricruz) got cast in Las Vegas. I just may have to watch that show again...

Guaty's on the left.

The Bill Engvall Show's premiere was the third-highest rated basic cable sitcom telecast ever. Pray that it drops next week. That show is a turd-- even with Nancy Travis.

I picked up The Flash #13 where [spoiler alert], Bart gets killed by the Rogues. Kinda weird that the last issue I picked up was #1 when he became The Flash and the second I picked up, he gets killed. I didn't like the fact that DC made him The Flash a year ago (by aging him to an adult from a teenager during Infinite Crisis), and I also didn't like feeling that he was killed because sales of the book sucked. But the issue was pretty powerful-- even if I didn't understand everything going on. Bart sacrificed himself for personal as well as "world-saving" reasons, and that's about all a character can ask for in a death story. If there's any good that comes from it, it's that Mark Waid is back writing the newly repowered Wally West's Flash adventures.

I kinda wonder what's gonna happen to Tim "Robin" Drake. The kid loses his dad (killed by Captain Boomerang), friend/crush Spoiler (killed by Black Mask), best friend Connor/Superboy (killed by Superboy Prime) and now Bart (killed by The Rogues) all in the space of, maybe, 18 months of comic book time. Sounds like there is lots of potential for future Robin stories if DC plays its cards right. No way a teenager should brush off that kind of death surrounding him.

I may have to start picking up some titles again if my budget allows...