Quentin's Weeknotes 4/17/22-4/23/22

This Week:

• ….Was weird. I had one kid home monday from a previously scheduled snow day and the other home for being sick, then an actual snow day on Tuesday, with massive power outages rendering workplaces and schools alike without power.
• We had a great Easter, with a visit from the Easter Bunny, babka, decorated eggs, and a gorgeous roasted lamb for dinner.
• I finished reading “Tomorrow’s Cthulhu” a good Lovecraft-inspired collection that puts the Cthulhu Mythos into various imaginary futures.
• I devoured, basically in one sitting, the entire 900 page collection of Mark Waid’s masterful comic series “Irredeemable”. It’s a morally and emotionally complicated deconstruction of superheroes, that takes as its fundamental question–what if Superman (in this case, a superman-like character called The Plutonian) had a nervous breakdown and began destroying the world? Powerful, electric stuff. I couldn’t put it down.
• I finished reading Kameron Hurley’s novella collection “Apocalypse Nyx”, set in her “Bel Dame Apocrypha” world. The books are brutal and dark and sort of funny, about a group of mercenaries trying to survive and live in a world of perpetual violence.