grrr.

Sometimes I hate my neighbors. Like when they play really awful, thumping techno music at volumes that I hear it in my apartment almost louder than I normally turn up music I'm listening to myself. I mean, I get the appeal of music played so loud that you don't hear it as much as feel the vibrations in your guts, and that's fine at clubs, or concerts, and I'm not against neighbors having parties sometimes, either, but that volume level just isn't appropriate for playing music on normal occasions, at least not if you are in a building with many apartments and almost no soundproofing.

bitching about continuity. again.

Maybe I should just give up on DC continuity. This afternoon and evening I've been reading The Long Halloween and now Dark Victory, both by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, and I really enjoy them, except for the continuity glitches. I'm in the middle of Dark Victory now, and this version of the death of Dick's parents contradicts current continuity in a major way: in Dark Victory, after the death of Dick's parents Bruce doesn't appear as Batman in the circus, but Tim Drake's origin story as Robin III (in A Lonely Place Of Dying) hinges on Tim seeing Batman and Dick Grayson together, because that was the starting point for Tim to make the connection between Bruce Wayne and Batman, and Dick Grayson and Robin.

On the upside, I really like Tim Sale's artwork. I think his use of lots of bold shadows contrasted with the thin lines is gorgeous and works really well for Batman. Back to reading (and ignoring continuity) now...