Gaz: Big in Japan

..bleh..

That’s about how I feel right now. I never mentioned this on my blog until now, as I knew some people would worry unecassarily or continually remind me with random messages of “You ok?” etc., which I couldn’t really be bothered with. Going back to the cancer incident of 3-4 weeks ago, I got my blood work back from the docs, the blood work that “Didn’t need to be taken” and it showed irritatingly high results for a serum that is indicative of oesophagus cancer. In order to completely eliminate this as a possibility I had to have gastrocopy (the camera in the throat dealy). Believe me, that thing is not as “micro” as they say, and if you ever have it done, take the general anesthetic not the local, I have never wanted to spew so badly for so long, it was like watching a Martin Night Shaylaman movie. Anyway, needless to say I don’t have oesophagus cancer thankfully, I in fact have an unusually pretty oesophagus apparently. So there.

In other news, I’ve finished watching the first season of Gundam 00. Whilst I’m generally in favor of Gundam, it is a massively volatile entity. Series’ such as Gundam 8th MS Team, Gundam SEED and Gundam ZZ have been little short of masterpieces, whereas the like of Gundam Wing, Gundam SEED Destiny and G-Gundam have been frustratingly bad. Despite the initial fear of four overly pretty boys meaning another Gundam Wing fiasco, 00 falls nicely into the superior group of series’ with a sequel series to come in the near future. Of course, with lessons learned from Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny, we know that a good first season doesn’t necassarily mean a good second season, but we can live in hope. Give it a watch, you can find all the episodes floating around on bittorrent subbed by a group called Nyron.

I’m undecided as to whether I should be excited by DC’s “Final Crisis” or not. I enjoyed Infinite Crisis and Identity Crisis well enough, but after 52 weeks of “Countdown to Final Crisis” I can’t help but wonder if it’s horribly over-hyped. My major issue so far is how (spoiler alert!) my favorite DC character went down like a bitch in first few pages – of course we know that death isn’t much of a thing in the world of comics, particularly for the big guns. Even if DC to kill of a number of the hall of famers as they have been indicating they may well do, one can’t help but see them buzzing back into existence with the thanks of super pseudo science. Still, it’s niceto reminded that whatever Final Crisis turns out for us, we’ve come a long way.