me

I won't be around much this week. I'm doing five days of training (three this week, two next week) for a new volunteer job I'm starting, which I'm very excited about; I'll be working with abused and neglected kids, helping to ensure they get the services they need.

The training is fun -- I've missed taking classes more than I've given much thought to since getting my university degree -- but long, 6-7 hours a day, and a 90-minute one-way commute for me. So by the time I get home at night I'm pretty wiped on top of having most of the day gone. I'll probably need to crash extra-hard come the weekend, on top of needing to do my other volunteer work on Saturday; for those of you who don't know, I help run a Saturday "soup kitchen" serving needy people who can't get to an alternate location on Saturdays, when the institutional soup kitchen downtown is closed.

I'm still thinking writing thoughts, never fear, and hopefully I'll be able to post some sort of fic content sometime this weekend. Or maybe some new-Toon-Titans / JLU-premiere squee Sunday morning.


Incidentally, if anybody is amused by the irony of my current fandom and my new job, you're not alone; and if anybody is horrified and is considering reporting me, let me remind you of three things: I won't have any unchaperoned contact with kids in the program, I'm doing this because I've been an abused child myself and I know they need more help than the system alone often gives them, and you don't know my full name anyway.

Well, of course I need more comics!

So I'm considering adding yet more titles to my pull-box. (How many am I already reading? Er... don't ask. Even I don't actually want to know.)

If you're reading any of these, and have any thoughts about them one way or another, do please share.

CATWOMAN (#33)
I haven't been reading Selina's title, though I don't dislike her much and I enjoy Ed Brubaker's scripting as much as any sane person. The solicits for this month's, though, make me wonder how closely CATWOMAN is going to tie-in with the other Gotham titles for "War Games," and whether I should be reading it for the duration.

JUSTICE LEAGUE ELITE (maxiseries)
Okay, I don't read JLA, so I don't know the setup or background or whatever. The two characters joining the JLE who I already know, I like (Ollie and Wally, and I'm reading both their titles at the moment), and several of the ones I know barely anything about intrigue me already... but, well, being as it's a spinoff from JLA, I'm worried that JLE will be more of the bad crack.

THE LEGION (#35-38)
On the one hand, I adore Gail Simone. On the other hand, I wouldn't know the Legion from X-Force if I ran into them in broad daylight and they were wearing nametags. Is this storyling going to be accessible to me without massive back-issue supplementation?

THE MONOLITH (#6-8)
Bruce and Babs are guesting in this storyline, or at least the first issue of the arc, according to DC. Er... what's this title about?