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Star Trek: The Motion Picture Novelizations
I like the Star Trek movies (some more than others), but I would have liked them more if they had hewed closer to the novelizations, which delved deeper into the characterizations and backstories of Sulu, Scott, Saavik, etc. Unique among them is the…
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DC Finest line
A while back, DC announced a new line of reprints, called DC Finest, that packages about 500 pages of comics from various eras into a $40 softcover. From all appearances, it looks to be an attempt to mimic Marvel's successful Epic Collections line,…
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Movies I Have Seen Lately
Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his…
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A Cover a Day
Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow…
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Star Wars Comic Books
I turned my nose up at Marvel's Star Wars comics in the late '70s/early '80s. Fast forward to the early 2K's when I found new volumes of the Dark Horse series of tpbs reprinting it on clearance at Half Price Books. I snatched them up thinking "How…
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Patrick Stewart, R.I.P.
Patrick Stewart, best-known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, has died at the age of 86.He died after ""a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body…
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Comics Guide for Nov. 4, 2026
TOP 10 PUBLISHERS NO. 1: DC COMICS ABSOLUTE ABSOLUTE CATWOMAN #4 (OF 6) ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN #25 ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN #20 MORE DC BATGIRL #25 BATMAN #15 BATMAN #497 FACSIMILE EDITION This is the one where Bane broke Batman's back. I honestly disliked…
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Emerkeith Davyjack's Celebrity Deaths
The death of former child actor Jackie Cooper ( not to be confused with the , somewhat less fortunate as an adult and , infamously , ripped off by his parents Jackie Coogan ) inspires me to start a " Celebrity Deaths - That , Um , Don't Have The…
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My Turn in the Barrel
I've always felt blessed at the good fortune of my senior years. A wonderful wife of thirty-three years. Financial security. Good health. Matinée-idol good looks. (O.K., maybe not that, heh.) I've been particularly smug over my good health. …
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