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The other day my remote car lock/unlock device died. I discovered this when, after a dental appointment, I could not remote-unlock the car. And as the remote-lock automatically sets the alarm, if you manually open the car, the alarm goes off and the car won't start.
After much fiddling, I phoned the dealership to ask how to manually turn off the alarm... and was told that you can't, and I'd either have to take a taxi to the dealership to get a new remote and then take it back to the car, or have to have the car towed! Alternatively, he added, the remote battery might be dead.
I proceeded to walk for half an hour,uphill and in the snow in the sun and on a street with no sidewalk, to the nearest hardware store to get that battery. Luckily a woman heard my hopeful inquiry about a bus back and gave me a ride. And yes. The car now starts. Has this ever happened to anyone else?
To relieve my stress (car, long hot walk, very painful tooth-cleaning), I went to the comic store where![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cyberpilate, who just won an Eisner Award (with others), works. I was really only looking for Tsubasa 18 DO NOT SPOIL and... er... more Moon Child. She pounced and proceeded to sell me Greg Rucka's Electra, Queen and Country, and Whiteout; Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba's Casanova, Lea Hernandez's steampunk Cathedral Child, and a Thor one-shot called "Reign of Blood:"
Me: "I'm not into Thor."
Carla: "Look! They're raising a blood colossus!"
Shows me awesome splash page of giant zombie mecha.
Carla: "And there's Thor! Look, he's saying, 'I will pilot your blood colossus!'"
Me: "Sold!"
Also, I sold myself books one of DNAgents (collected-- blast from my past) and From Eroica With Love.
I should note that lots of this was on the 60% off shelf.
Anyone read any of these? Without plot spoilers... comments?
After much fiddling, I phoned the dealership to ask how to manually turn off the alarm... and was told that you can't, and I'd either have to take a taxi to the dealership to get a new remote and then take it back to the car, or have to have the car towed! Alternatively, he added, the remote battery might be dead.
I proceeded to walk for half an hour,
To relieve my stress (car, long hot walk, very painful tooth-cleaning), I went to the comic store where
cyberpilate, who just won an Eisner Award (with others), works. I was really only looking for Tsubasa 18 DO NOT SPOIL and... er... more Moon Child. She pounced and proceeded to sell me Greg Rucka's Electra, Queen and Country, and Whiteout; Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba's Casanova, Lea Hernandez's steampunk Cathedral Child, and a Thor one-shot called "Reign of Blood:"Me: "I'm not into Thor."
Carla: "Look! They're raising a blood colossus!"
Shows me awesome splash page of giant zombie mecha.
Carla: "And there's Thor! Look, he's saying, 'I will pilot your blood colossus!'"
Me: "Sold!"
Also, I sold myself books one of DNAgents (collected-- blast from my past) and From Eroica With Love.
I should note that lots of this was on the 60% off shelf.
Anyone read any of these? Without plot spoilers... comments?
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If you like Queen and Country you might also look at the BBC series The Sandbaggers, which is similar and also excellent, and out on DVD. I liked Whiteout, about a US Marshal in Antarctica. There's a sequel, Whiteout: Melt. I found Cathedral Child confusing but intriguing. Lea Hernandez had another series called Rumble Girls: Silky Warrior Tansie set at a girl's school for powered armor gladiators.
DNAgents Industrial Strength is coming out October 29th, "the entire Meugniot-drawn DNAgents are collected in one volume with extensive notations, never-before-published artwork, and bonus features." It's author, Mark Evanier, has an interesting blog News From Me, RSS syndicated to LJ as newsfromme_com.