Series

I don't remember the last time I put a list on here. I think Evernote's been satisfying my list-making cravings for a while now.

But anyway, a list of series I've been getting into in the past year. Because I like obsessing over different series, particularly if it has a wiki associated with it (my other source of obsession. >_>). As of late:

1. A Song of Ice and Fire (the book series that spawned the Game of Thrones TV show, which I also like)
The books tend towards being too verbose and long, with lots of pages where it feels like nothing's actually happening, but the clever dialogue and all the moments where stuff actually happens kinda make up for it. This actually got me back into reading book series again. I'd forgotten what it was like to get all giddy and excited to read the next book in a series, or at least since Harry Potter ended... 4 years ago now? I guess technically, I read Dune and Ender's Game not too long ago either, but those novels ended on a note where they didn't necessarily need a sequel and could easily stand alone on their own right. With A Game of Thrones on the other hand, it was kinda harder to ignore how it was pretty much setting up for the rest of the books.

2. MS Paint Adventures - specifically, Problem Sleuth and Homestuck
I'm a sucker for anything that remotely resembles a text adventure game (aka interactive fiction), and these web comics are just that. Problem Sleuth had a noir-ish kind of setting and Homestuck had references to data structures... and then they both kind of exploded into something else. According to wiki they're estimated to be the longest comic on the internet, and probably with good reason.

3. Batman comics
Trying to read most of the important stuff in chronological order (which is a lot harder to do for American comics because they like to retcon stuff all the time - it took me a while to understand the release cycle). Started with Year One, currently on Knightfall, although I've been holding off on it for a while cause Knightfall is a lot bigger than any of the past trade paperbacks I've read.

4. Outer-space based sci-fi (Mass Effect, Battlestar Galactica, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien)
I'm lumping all of this in one category, but lately I've been realizing that I'm a bit of a sucker for anything based in outer space. Although I never could really get into the Star Wars universe for some reason. I think the whole idea of the Force was a little too mystical for me for a space-themed setting.

5. Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra
I never got into it too much originally because seemed too much like a western imitation of anime, but after recently marathoning through everything in order this past week, I am now beyond obsessed. Great animation, great characters, great setting. I feel like this show is the realization of all the elemental power stuff I used to like daydreaming about, the stuff that didn't make it into X-Men or whichever.

and now currently:
Baldur's Gate
So like Planescape: Torment previously, I've been meaning to get to this RPG series since high school but never really got around to it. Ironically, talking about Diablo 3 as it was released earlier this week made me really want to play Baldur's Gate, so I started. It took some getting used to the user interface and the nature of gameplay, though - this game was clearly made for patient people. Will see how it turns out.

The Earthsea Trilogy
Just started the first book, but I like the writing style so far. It's only around 160 pages, but compared to the ~1000 page books of the Game of Thrones series, it feels like a breath of fresh air. My perception of it is slightly eschewed by the fact that there's a Studio Ghibli Earthsea movie, so I keep picturing some of kind of mystical pseudo-Miyazaki fantasy world when I'm reading it.