Did I forget to do my last Three Good Things entry? I did! Well, extra perspective, I guess. Of course, so little happened Sunday that I feel sort of like I don’t have three things to list.
1: BUT WAIT, that was one of the good things!
2: Also, my sister made leek and potato soup. God I love this soup. It’s buttery and tangy and filling and just so good.
3: I got back to (some of) my roots by binging on Transformers comics. I’ve always loved Transformers. Even though the old cartoon was simplistic, even as a kid I could see there was so much potential in the idea of a race of ancient alien robots fighting a war of millennia across the stars. And while Michael Bay’s movies are certainly not a place to find much of that potential realized, in comics there have been some really great attempts. A now-defunct comics publisher called Dreamwave made a really good, interesting attempt at it several years ago, including a version of Megatron who owned a certain brand of warrior mysticism to go along with Optimus Prime as both military and spiritual leader of his people. These days, IDW has the rights—which is splendid because IDW does one hell of a comic, with smart writing and art high-quality art and printing.
So, I dove back into the digital collection of issues I’ve accumulated over time. (Gave myself an annoying virus when I installed a reader for the file format they’re stored in.) The psychology of a species that never dies of old age and is also hard to kill otherwise. The culture and caste systems that might evolve over millions of years with minimal turnover in population. Alien robot mysticism! Alien robot gender! (They’ve got individuals that ID as ‘female’ but it’s not like they actually have sexes. No, seriously, they’ve got a spotlight issue devoted to a transgender Transformer.) Plus, now and again a deft touch of the dystopian horror of a war that has lasted for longer than entire geological ages of the earth and left their own home planet a shattered, lifeless husk. Perhaps most interesting is seeing what ancient alien robots might consider body horror. It’s not breaking the boundaries of sci-fi or anything, but it’s so satisfying to read stories exploring the same sorts of things my imagination went cruising after.
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