Just started binge watching Stranger Things this morning. Very entertaining 80s tinged sci-fi in a small town. Pretty similar to JJ Abrams Super 8 movie from a few years ago. Anyone else watching this?
Read more…"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars
In Flash 203 we get the startlingly revelation that Iris was born native to the 30th century. They even reveal the year she's presently in (corresponding to her age) where the Flash arrives. Given that the LSH is also based in this time...it's drasti
Read more…The first season of Preacher ends where the comic book begins, with Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper0, Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) and Tulip O’Hare (Ruth Negga) on a road trip to find God. Photo Credit: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television/AMC
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This One Summer
Mariko Tamaki, writer; Jillian Tamaki, artist
First Second, 2014
This had been on my "to read" list for a long time. The recommendations of Wandering Sensei and JD DeLuzio finally got me to try it, and I'm glad I did. As a story about
Read more…"Complete aside, but is it true that George Marshall was given the special title 'General of the Army' because otherwise he would have been called Marshal Marshall?"
-- Figserello
Read more…For some reason, the memory just came back to me that when I was a real little kid, I never had any problem with eating bread crusts, but I knew plenty of kids that did - they would eat bread OK, but would be horrified at eating the crusts. As for m
Read more…I used to work retail so I know some holidays are real and some aren't, as a retail person the real holidays are few and far between. But I think've seen signs on just about every store in the area saying that they'll be open on July 4th. Isn't this
Read more…OK. We all know the Herman's Hermits song "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter"; BUT, there was a response to this song recorded. I've heard the response once, and only once, in my lifetime. I heard it on an oldies radio station. The DJ did state
Read more…Great Comics of the 1990s
1990s comics often get a bad rap. It’s partly because the big two of DC and Marvel responded to the rising challenge of new companies like Valiant and Image by flooding the market and there simply wasn’t enoug
Read more…A-FORCE #8 CW2
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I'm racking my brain trying to find information somewhere on the 'Net about a parody version of "12 Days of Christmas", but I'm not having any luck. I'm hoping someone can help me out. I can't recall who performed the song, and here are the few thi
Read more…Most of us, watching Godzilla or Gamera films, have always assumed Godzilla, Gamera and those other monsters really had it in for each other. But it turns out it's not so.
All those battles were really arranged by promoters. And they fixed the resu
Read more…I just got his one in my store e-mail box:
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"i need your help to be my guardian and help me claim the fund $3.5 on my behalf, if interested, get back to me on this email address:
xxxxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com, so that i ca
Pick any musical group, what song is their greate hit? Rolling Stones? Beatles? Pink Floyd? Michael Jackson? ZZ Top? Devo - Whip It The Knack? The Who - My Generation or Pnball Wizard or Baba O'Reilly (although not many people know it by that name)
Read more…When the new animated Earth-2 film hits the shelves in February, it'll have the first original DC superhero short in decades. According to comicsworthreading.com: A new animated short! DC Showcase: The Spectre is written by Steve Niles (30 Days of N
Read more…Alex + Ada Volume 2
Sarah Vaughn: story, script; Jonathan Luna: story, script assists, illustrations, letters, design
Image Comics, 2015
The first volume culminated with the procedure to make the female android named Ada sentient. It's an illegal
Read more…When US Army intelligence agent Lieutenant Steve Trevor crashlanded on the island of Themiscyra in 1941, Queen Hippolyta of the Amazons decided to return him to his own people accompanied by an Amazon who would serve as an ambassador of love in a wor
Read more…Bruce Wayne was born in Gotham City, New Jersey, mere weeks before the beginning of the First World War. While much of the world was in turmoil, young Bruce lived the comfortable life typical of the son of wealthy parents. It was only when his parent
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