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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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Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day
This thread is a companion to the "A Cover A Day" discussion. Click here to visit that discussion. It is intended for the discussion of potential new themes and topics for "A Cover A Day", voting on these themes, and the gathering and reporting of…
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Captain Action & Action Boy
This mini-comicc was my introduction to most, if not ALL, of these characters.
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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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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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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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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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