Iâ??ve got 2 weeks before the big day and I need some reading material to take in with me. I havenâ??t really ventured from 200ad, Elektra Assassin , Ronin, a little Wolverine, Sandman and a few others, and Iâ??m hoping someone can suggest a couple graphic novels I can take in with me.
Something I can pick up and put down in regular intervals :) nothing thatâ??s going to get me to engrossed either.
ventured from 2000ad even
i take it this is your first..?
you won't have time to do any reading as the mother-to-be will be too busy whacking you in the nuts, blaming you for all her ongoing misery
i tried to watch 'match of the day' during the lead-up to the birth of child#1, and i bloody well paid for that mistake
good luck anyway - my third's due in 3 weeks
thinky
yep, first one and a boy, 3 you must be mad :)
If it's not plain sailing i'll be sitting outside having a smoke and reading ma comic ;)
well congratulations and I hope it goes well. Don't let Logan pinch your parking space.
Ummm, graphic novels that are good for an event such as that? Nothing too big - if you can't put it away quickly you'll earn the ire of your spouse. The Alan Moore Future Shocks book might be good - lots of good quick stories and it doesn't matter if you lose your place.
I didn't have any time to read when I went in for my son's birth.
Forget reading, sleep. As much as you can. It'll be another 2 years before you get a decent chance to get some kip again.
- pj
(seriously, learn to sleep where ever/whenever you can...)
You should look at Marvels Essential range or D.C.'s Showcase range. The first Superman volume is 500 pages of fun for £7.50 and you can dip in and out at leasure. The Jonah Hex volume is a revelation. As for Marvel, well pick a favourite and run with it. You can't go wrong with early Spiderman though. These have the benefit of being, mostly, self contained tales.
You should look at Marvels Essential range or D.C.'s Showcase range. The first Superman volume is 500 pages of fun for £7.50 and you can dip in and out at leasure. The Jonah Hex volume is a revelation. As for Marvel, well pick a favourite and run with it. You can't go wrong with early Spiderman though. These have the benefit of being, mostly, self contained tales.
To take to the hospital? Comics are great, but seriously, pack a real book instead. You'll want something that doesn't take up much space and that will last you a while, also somehing you don't mind droppiung or throwing to one side or craming in a pocket - you never know how long you might end up stuck in an uncomfortable hospital chair with nothing much to do, and on the other hand you might end up dropping everything in a mad rush.
pj nailed it.
sleep.
once the little one arrives its game over man.
but in a nice way.
Start practising fatherhood now by not sleeping, not seeing your mates and throwing all your money away.
And look forward to the moment, ten years hence, when your son looks up at you and asks "Dad, what does Donkey Shag Time mean?"
Forget reading, sleep. As much as you can. It'll be another 2 years before you get a decent chance to get some kip again...
Ha! Who are you trying to kid???
thinky is absolutely right you will not have time to read. How ever if you convince Mrs -=D0nk3ySh4gT1me=- to have an epidural then you will at least dispense with the her whacking you in the nuts and blaming you for all her ongoing misery.
congrats
Wow a lot of people promoting sleep lol
Don't read!! it will be cast up for years to come, practice sleep, preferably with your eyes open and making sympathetic noises.
But don't, don't sleep while she's awake... in the middle of a 36 hour labour I tried to snatch a quick kip while 'she' was knocked oot on drugs etc only to be awoke with the cry of 'what the hell have you got to be tired about?' Hormones
Have a big pish-up with your mates before she gets out and pencil one in every month there after, its the only way to keep sane
and slip off to comic cons when ever you can
Huff the daddy
Take a broadsheet newspaper. You'll be lucky to get to the end of it.
There's not a lot of time for reading.
- Trout
Also: start working out which of your stuff needs moved to higher ground and start moving it. Won't be long before the wee bugger can grab everything off the coffee table, then the chairs, then the higher tables (and the kitchen table) and finally, and, possibly most horrifically, can reach to your drawing table with a crayon (not happened yet... but it's a close call)
- pj
There will be no reading, nor chance for reading, nor THOUGHT of reading. If by some odd chance you find yourself alone in the corridor during a quiet (or more likley too hectic to have you flapping about in the room) moment in the 'process', you will find it quite fulfilling to press your forehead against a cold windowpane and feel the sensation completely, maybe even open your eyes and look at the world outside for the last time ever as your own person. In a short while, you will stop being you, forget your own name, and instead become a complete stranger's one-and-only "Dad". It's fucking cool. But there will not be time for reading until later. You won't miss it.
And there was me thinking that the story linked below
* was freaky; please tell me that the expectant mother-to-be is not of the four legged braying variety?
* subsequently proved to be a complete bag o' shite by blood tests. Heehaw heehaw heehaw.
Link: PUSSY SCREWED DOGGY-STYLE?
I saw a book called 'you'r the daddy' in the library yesterday, perhaps you could find that ?