Friday, July 01, 2016

Monthly Update - June 2016

RESOLUTIONS:

1. No Cancer - All clear! Next CT is in July. So we're halfway through the year on this one.

2. Stay on budget. Picked up AMC's Preacher and season two of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. That's 8 of my 12 seasons, which means I'm slightly past my goal of one a month, but I'm sure I'll have a quiet month or two during the summer. Still only at 2 games, and one of them, No Man's Sky, is delayed until August. So I should hit that goal easily, although E3 is promising a bunch of games I want to buy. PS+ free games and a couple addictive games like Overwatch and Battlefront are making this part easy. Of course, X-COM 2 is getting a port in September, and Injustice 2 has been announced for later in the year...

POP CULTURE GOALS:

1. Read 15 Books (3)
  • None this month, but I got two for my birthday I've been wanting to read
2. Read 100 Graphic Novels (48)
  1. Shade TP
  2. Cluster TP
3. Catch up on TV/Movie DVDs and Blurays
  • None this month
    4. Play 15 New Boardgames (19)
    • X-Com Boardgame
    • DC Deck-Building
    • Pandemic Legacy
    • Cthulhu Realms
    • Bullfrogs
    • Dr. Eureka
    5. Go to 5 Comic Book Conventions
    • Dallas Comic Con (February)
    • STAPLE! (March)
    • C2E2 (March)
    • Heroes Con (June)
    • Alamo City Con (October)
    My Picks of the Week For This Month:
    1. Detective Comics #934
    2. The Fix #3
    3. Spider-Woman #8
    4. All-New Wolverine #9
    5. Star Wars Han Solo #1
    6. Lazarus #22
    7. Nighthawk #2
    8. Power Man and Iron Fist #5
    9. Jade Street Protection Services #1
    10. Cryptocracy #1
        Other Comics I Read This Month (233+68=301):
        • Action Comics #957-958
        • Agents of SHIELD #6
        • All-New All-Different Avengers #10-11
        • All-New Wolverine #9
        • Amazing Spider-Man #13-14
        • Aquaman #1
        • Aquaman Rebirth #1
        • Astonishing Ant-Man #9
        • Astro City #36
        • Batman #1
        • Batman Rebirth #1
        • Birthright #16
        • Black Panther #3
        • Black Widow #4
        • Captain America Sam Wilson #10
        • Captain America Steve Rogers #2
        • Civil War II #1-2
        • Civil War II Amazing Spider-Man #1
        • Civil War II Gods of War #1
        • Civil War II X-Men #1
        • Control #1
        • Cryptocracy #1
        • Daredevil #8
        • Daredevil Punisher #2
        • Dark Knight Returns The Last Crusade #1
        • Darth Vader #21
        • Deadpool #13
        • Descender #12
        • Detective Comics #934-935
        • Divinity II #3
        • Doctor Strange #9
        • Dungeons & Dragons #2
        • Empress #3
        • Flash Rebirth #1
        • Green Arrow #1
        • Green Arrow Rebirth #1
        • Green Lanterns #1
        • Green Lanterns Rebirth #1
        • Heartthrob #3
        • Jade Street Protection Services #1
        • Jughead #7
        • Klaus #6
        • Lazarus #22
        • Lucas Stand #1
        • Merry Men #1
        • Mockingbird #4
        • Moon Knight #3
        • Ms. Marvel #8
        • Nighthawk #2
        • Paper Girls #6
        • Power Man and Iron Fist #5
        • Spider-Woman #8
        • Spider-Women Event Omega
        • Star Wars #20
        • Star Wars Han Solo #1
        • Superman #1
        • Superman Rebirth #1
        • The Beauty #8
        • The Fix #3
        • Titans Rebirth #1
        • Vote Loki #1
        • Wonder Woman #1
        • Wonder Woman Rebirth #1
        TV I Watched This Month:
        • Americans "A Roy Rogers in Franconia" "Persona Non Grata" 
        • Casual "Phase 3" "Trivial Pursuit" "Such Good Friends"
        • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee "Gary Johnson Part 1" "Again? Again." "Tribal Courts" 
        • Game of Thrones "The Broken Man" "No One" "Battle of the Bastards" "Winds of Winter"
        • Humans "Episodes 1-8"
        • Inside Amy Schumer "Madame President"
        • Last Week Tonight With John Oliver "Debt" "Retirement" "Brexit" "Doping"
        • Orange is the New Black "Work That Body For Me" "Power Suit" "(Don't) Say Anything" "Doctor Psycho" "We'll Always Have Baltimore" "Piece of Shit" "It Sounded Nicer in My Head" "Friends in Low Places" "Turn Table Turn" "Bunny, Skull, Bunny, Skull"  "People Persons" "Animals" "Toast Can't Never Be Bread Again"
        • Person of Interest "Pilot" "Ghosts" "Mission Creep" "Cura Te Ipsum" "Judgment"
        • Preacher "See" "The Possibilities"
        • Silicon Valley "To Build A Better Beta" "Bachman's Earnings Over-Ride" "Daily Active Users" "The Uptick"
        • Terriers "Pilot" "Fustercluck"
        • Veep "Congressional Ball" "Camp David" "Kissing Your Sister" "Inauguration"
        • Voltron Legendary Defender "The Rise of Voltron" "Some Assembly Required" "Return of the Gladiator" "The Fall of the Castle of Lions" "Tears of the Balmera" "Taking Flight" "Return to the Balmera" "Rebirth" "Crystal Venom" "Collection and Extraction" "The Black Paladin"
        • West Wing "The Short List" "In Excelsis Deo"
        Top Ten Shows This Month:
        1. Game of Thrones
        2. The Americans
        3. Veep
        4. Silicon Valley
        5. Orange is the New Black
        6. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
        7. Preacher
        8. Casual
        9. Voltron Legendary Defender
        10. Inside Amy Schumer
        Movies I Watched This Month:
        • None this month
        Places I Ate This Month (126+22=148):
        • Bojangle's (x2) (North Carolina)
        • Brooklyn Pie Company
        • Firehouse Subs
        • Frank
        • Fuddrucker's
        • General Tso'Boy
        • Gus's Fried Chicken
        • Hoodie's Subs (x2)
        • Lucy's Fried Chicken (x2)
        • Mert's (North Carolina)
        • Michi Ramen (x2)
        • Popeye's
        • Smokey Mo's
        • Tarka
        • Torchy's Tacos (x2)
        • Vera Cruz Tacos
        • Whataburger