In this week’s episode, Mike and Drew take on vampires and magicians in Moscow with the book, The Night Watch!
- Talk Nerdy to Me: Mike falls into the beautiful absurdity of Fooly Cooly (FLCL), buys mediocre games at a good price, and begrudgingly continues Majora’s Mask. Drew is catching up on 2010 video game sleeper hit Darksiders and babbles on about Star Trek.
- This week’s challenge: (courtesy of Kim) Mike and Drew read The Night Watch. The first book in a Fantasy/Supernatural series about vampires, werewolves, magicians and the struggle between maintaining the balance of dark and light. Furthermore, Drew and Mike fail this challenge because they are slow readers. Video games for the win!
- Next week’s challenge: (courtesy of Myles) After hearing Mike’s relative distaste for Marvel Civil War and the inability to relate to the emotional aspect of the comic, Myles challenges us to Read the first 12 issues of Ultimate Spider-Man. Hopefully this one will warm Mike’s cold, black, robot heart. This will also be our last comic challenge for some time.
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Russian naming conventions:
Russian names are comprised of:
. First name, which is the person’s given name.
. Middle name, which is a patronymic or a version of the father’s first name formed by adding ‘- vich’ or ‘-ovich’ for a male and ‘-avna’ or ‘- ovna’ for a female. The son of Ivan would have a patronymic of Ivanovich while the daughter’s patronymic would be Ivanovna.
. Last name, which is the family or surname.
In formal situations, people use all three names. Friends and close acquaintances may refer to each other by their first name and patronymic. Close friends and family members call each other by their first name only.
Excuse me. I have a problem with this week’s rating scale. I don’t think having the super power to shoot spaghetti out of your finger nails is a “zero” out of 10. Do you have any idea how handy that would be?
I have to agree. Having lived on the ramen diet before, I know truly how useful noodles can be!