THE BOOK #1
Author: Ian Fleming
Date: 1955
THE PLOT
The owner of M's private club is worried that one of the members is cheating at bridge, and asks M if he'll look into it. He agrees, and asks James Bond to give the alleged cheater a look, given B
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Story: James TynionIV | Art: Klaus Janson | Art/Cover: Michael Avon Oeming | $4,.99
From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning cocreators of Something is Killing the Children, Th
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Tyler Boss & Matthew Rosenberg, storytellers; Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, lettering
Image Comics, 2022
This is a dystopian tale, although it's not obvious at first. We just
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TALES TO ASTONISH #90-91:
Emil Blonsky has led a tragic and convoluted live every since the spy mission he undertook in the Spring of 1967 to steal secrets from General Ross's missile base to sell behind the "Bamboo Curtain." First he tried three se
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Batman is the most difficult, I think, as he is probably the most-often portrayed. He
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James Tynion IV, writer; Martin Simmonds, artist; Aditya Bidikar, letterer; Elsa Charretier, Tyler Boss,John J. Pearson, David Romero, Alison Sampson, Jorge Fornes: artists; Matt Hollingsworth, Boman Tito
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe, author, illustrator
Oni Press, 2019
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Loring played Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family (1964-1966). Her passing leavies John Astin as the sole surviving member of the show's regular cast.
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1.2 The Top of the Tree - p
1.3 The Light Keepers - p
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2.1 The Evolving Dead - p
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With everyone else dipping their toes into the water--and given that lately it seems I'm more snarky than appreciative of comics--I thought I'd dip my own toes into the water with a reading project. So I'll be covering Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck.
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