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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Comics Guide for Oct. 28, 2026
As I noted somewhere else this week, Oni Press dropped out of the Top 10 in Q3 (according to ICV2.com), with Titan Comics moving up (all the way to No. 9). Dynamite and Viz Media dropped a few notches. None of that is a surprise. What is a surprise…
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The "Forgotten" Hulk Comic No One Remembers
Rob's recent post in the "DC Finest Line" discussion (see p.85) sent me scrambling for Marvel Masterworks Hulk v10, where I found the instruction booklet for the Aurora "Hulk" model tucked between the pages. This series of super-hero models was…
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