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If you hadn’t already heard, Volton is on Cartoon Network (Adult Swim schedule here).  It’s on at some crazy hour of the morning, but if you’ve got a tivo, then it won’t matter what time it is on.  I doubt it will be as good as I remember, but I’m wondering if it will be more of a case of G.I. Joe (which I had a really hard time watching, except for the 5 episode miniseries, due to the high quality of the comic book and the kind of low quality of the cartoon) or Transformers (which I can see why I thought was good and holds up reasonably well).

As you may or may not know, the Friday after Thanksgiving is known in the shopping world as Black Friday.  I realized the other day that is rapidly approaching when I saw that a couple of websites already had the black friday ad for Best Buy.  If you’re interested, here’s a pretty good site for getting ready for black friday (bfads.net).  As the event gets closer, there will of course be a rundown of all the best deals on techbargains.  There was also a rumor on techcrunch that Amazon will be selling a $100 XBox 360 soon.

I happen to enjoy helping people find media that interest them. I recommend movies, tv shows, books, comics, etc., but the hardest to convince people to try are comic books. I read a bunch of comic books every month (mostly buying online through DCBS) and as I read more comics I find that my tastes have expanded somewhat. These days, there are a lot of comic books in many different genres. To the extent that it should be possible to find comic books for just about everyone. In that vein, I’ve decided to start a series of posts about comic books for people that aren’t into superheroes. Not everyone will find all of these interesting, but I’m hoping to cover a wide array of books that I’ve thought were really good, many of which I’ve had a lot of success with getting friends to read.

This post is going to be about DMZ (Amazon). The general premise is that there an uprising of local anti-government militias across the country that has caused some pretty heavy divisions of the US. (On a side note, this has a lot of parallels to the tv show Jericho on CBS.) Manhattan has been turned into a DMZ with the inhabitants mostly just caught in the crossfire. For the rest of the country, there is a blackout of information about just what is happening there, so a journalist is sent in during a ceasefire. Pretty quickly, the situation goes to hell and the photographer is left there with no support.  With the gear he has left, the photographer has to figure out if he’s going to stay and try to shed some light on the situation or pack it up and go home.  His decision probably won’t surprise you, and as a result, we get to see some of the more interesting people that are still trying to make their homes there.  I can’t promise that you’ll enjoy it, but I can promise no superheroes.

It looks like the 49ers are pretty seriously investigating a move to Santa Clara.  Not quite as cool as if the Bears decided to move to Santa Clara, but this story is a lot more likely.  It might even be easy enough to be able to take public transit over there from Mountain View or Los Altos depending on what the parking situation ends up like.