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Remember when I told you guys I’ll be publishing a Weekly Haul post every Sunday or Monday? Sure you don’t. But let’s pretend you regularly visit my blog and you remember what I’m talking about. OK. Well, it seems I bit off more than I can chew. Seeing that whenever I get drunk on a Friday night (or is it Saturday morning?), I spend the whole weekend recovering from a bitchin’ hangover. And I’m trying really hard to cut down on my comics buying spree every freakin’ week. Then there’s the matter of laziness while wondering if anyone’s interested in what I’m talking about, except for other comic book geeks. But I’m not doing this for the masses, am I? Am I? No. Err… no.

So with that lame excuse for a “late” blog post, let me go ahead and bore you some more with this week’s haul. Boring SPOILERS ahead!

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Ahh. Do you smell that? The smell of change. Of development. Of movement. And it’s all around me. And I love it with all my constantly-in-flux heart.

Several of my brethren in UPLB MASS are graduating in a few weeks’ time. A cause for celebration and intoxication, which will start next week when we’ll invade Ilocos for a good ol’ fashioned summer out-of-town beachfest. Road Trip!

Another cause for celebration is the end of my probationary period in my current job. Yes, ladies and gentlefreaks, I am now regularized. And with this change in my employment status comes a few more changes in responsibilities and nature of tasks. I can’t wait.

Finally, the recent transformation of my social life from “totally non-existent” to “Holy shit, what day is it?! I’m drunk again! Yeah!” is requiring me to cut back on my comic book consumption and focus more on accumulating loads of cash for my beer fund. Priorities, priorities.

It’s just so refreshing to see things moving again.

And with that sentimental crap over, I now present to you this week’s haul. SPOILERS blah blah.

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It’s so freakin’ hot. Seriously. Cheryl Cosim said this morning that today, the temperature could reach 37 degrees Celsius. I suck at Science so I’ll just have to assume that that temperature is hot. Scorching even.

I always think hard before I decide to take a cigarette break during work. If I smoke, I’d have to endure the heat on my face, the sun on my bare head, and the stink of perspiring fellow smokers. I smoke anyway since I’m a slave to the nicotine. Feh.

This summer, there are only two options for me to keep myslef cool: the beach and white-hot ladies in bikinis, or an air-conditioned room, with a bunch of comics. If only life was that simple. *sigh*

What’s fun with the intense heat, though, is that when things get hot enough, you start to see things that aren’t really there. A mirage. It fucks with your brain. It changes your perspective. It gives you the hope of finding an oasis. Most of the time, you get disappointed. But sometimes, when you least expect it, you get surprised. There it is. Something real out of something that’s supposedly just bullshit.

Anyhoo, it’s been a slow week in the comics haul department so let’s just get on with it. SPOILERS ahoy!

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Thanks to my vacation mode, which technically just lasted 5 days but my mind stayed on it for two weeks, I missed a week of the Weekly Haul. So this week, I’ll be talking about 2 weeks worth of comics. Yay!

Civil War is still fresh in everybody’s mind, what with all The Initiative shit going on. But that’s not the only war in comics right now. This week, there’s going to be a clusterfuck of DC characters when World War III commences in the pages of the weekly comic series 52. And over at Marvel, the countdown has already begun for World War Hulk, where the Hulk basically punches everybody in the face! Probably even Aunt May! If she’s still alive.

Anyhoo, let’s start with the comic book goodness, shall we? And as usual, SPOILERS bitches!

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One year. 52 issues. 52 weeks. And it all comes to a head with the psychedelic return of DC’s Multiverse. I don’t know what to say.

DC’s weekly series, 52, finally ends this week. I can’t believe I stayed on for all 52 issues. There were some totally awesome issues and scenes, but there were also some sucky episodes and WTF moments. All in all, it was a fun ride. But I won’t go through another weekly series again. Yeah, I’m skipping Countdown. Why? I need more money for beer and videoke battles. And probably for my future kids’ college fund.

With that totally wussy statement, I end my weekly love affair with the whole DC universe. And since I missed two (count ‘em, two!) Weekly Haul posts, this is going to be a long one. Three weeks worth of comics, coming up! With SPOILERS on top!

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