In some interview I read, Terry Moore was keeping hush-hush on who the new Runaways penciller would be (or maybe that was for Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane…), but Joe Q spilled the beans. First art from new penciller, Humberto Ramos! Check it:

In the same Q&A, Joe Q tried to sneak it in that both Runaways #30 and Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1 have been pushed back again. They had been scheduled to come out May 21st (after being delayed for what now? 4 months? 5 months?), but now Giant Size is coming out on May 28th and Runaways on June 11th! What is the deal? Get these over with already so the new creative teams can come aboard.

I hope all you Whedonites stick around on Runaways for Terry Moore’s run because you can bet your Buffy Chosen Collection DVD box sets that he’s gonna mop the floor with Joss (no disrespect, sir)!!

Days in Los Angeles: 30

Days employed: 15 (not bad)

Miles driven: 831.8
$$$ for fuel: $180.25
Per mile cost: 21.6 cents (very high!)

Trips to Ralphs: 4
Trips to Trader Joe’s: 4
Trips to Vons: 8
Trips to Whole Foods: 11 (What?! The show I was working on is next to a Whole Foods, so Whole Foods wins this time)
Number of Pom Ice Teas consumed: 14 (This is what I bought at Whole Foods every night)

Concerts: 1
Movies in theatres: 9 (I was still unemployed for part of the month)
Movies on video: 5

New t-shirts: 2
New hoodies: 2

$$$ on movies: $116.50
$$$ on concerts: $166.60
$$$ on music: $236.96
$$$ on comics: $383.87
$$$ on laundry: $3.50
$$$ on parking: $16

Games of Monopoly played: 1
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books attended: 1 (both days!)
Book Fest panels observed: 3
Wendy Pini autographs obtained: 1 (+50 EXP!!)

A new MoS track! If you are like me and don’t care about the video part…then just press play and close your eyes.

…to hearing a new Mates of State track in recorded form:

More on Babble Blog.

Guess the movies I watched last month from these stills:

Check the file names for the answers. How many did you get right?

Days in Los Angeles: 28
Days in Los Gatos/San Francisco: 3

Days employed: 4 (uh oh…not good)
Number of unions eligible for: 1 (very good!)

Miles driven: 912.3
$$$ for fuel: $100.80
Per mile cost: 11 cents
(…not accurate because I didn’t get an exact amount of miles from my car before I…well, see below…and I think my dad bought me a tank of gas, too!)

Number of cars crashed and totaled: 1 (Don’t worry. I’m okay!)

Number of trips to emergency room: 1 (Don’t worry. I’m okay!)

Trips to Ralphs: 7
Trips to Trader Joe’s: 4
Trips to Vons: 6
Trips to Whole Foods: 1

Concerts: 4 (it would have been 5, but I missed The Magnetic Fields due to my car crash. Sad.)
Movies in theatres: 14 (Best movie: tie between The Band’s Visit and Doomsday…also…I think the American way to spell theatre is “theater”, but all the movie theatre chains spell it “theatre,” so I am changing to that spelling now.)
Movies on video: 12
Movies on television: 2
Pages read: 0
Books finished: 0 (…no new book club book this month, so I only read comic books.)
New t-shirts: 2

$$$ on concerts: $69
$$$ on movies: $150.50
$$$ on music: $78.49
$$$ on comics: $435.70 (…I know! That’s a lot…but it includes this original page from Scott Pilgrim…

$$$ on laundry: $5.25
$$$ on parking: $6

Best purchase of the month: Duh! See above.
Best purchase of all time: Duh! See above!

Baseball games: 1 (…1 Dodger Dog, 1 garlic fries, 1 low quality beer, 1 ice cream malt: $24.25)
Easter egg hunts: 1
Bryan Lee O’Malleys met: 1
Goose lamps spotted: 1

…or what am I doing with my life?

Wow. Secret keys.

And thus concludes the only enjoyment any of us will ever get out of these stupid hats!

Beth’s showing nudie photos of herself with a paper bag over her head. Check it out.

I think it might be appropriate at this time to also have a moment of silence for Mr. Ben Kingsley, who, as we all know, played Mahatma Gandhi in the film of the same name.

Ben Kingsley’s not dead!