Once Upon a Time at the End of the World Book Two – The Rise and Fall of Golgonooza. Jason Aaron and the art teams hit it out of the park again. The last panel says "Concluded in Book Three." It will be interesting to see how the team does on sticking the landing.
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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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What Comic Books Have You Read Today?
Report what comic books you have read today--and tell us a little something about it while you're here!
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Atlas Era Venus
Venus was one of several heroines introduced by Marvel at the tail end of the 1940s. Her title underwent a curious sequence of transformations in comics genres in its 19-issue run, starting as a glamour comic, becoming a romance comics, then a…
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X-Men: The Hidden Years
With the advent of "Hereos Return," Avengers once again became my favorite title, a status it maintained right up until the launch of X-Men: The Hidden Years a year later. the premise of the series is that it would fill the gap from #67-93 when…
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Re-Reading the Oz Books
We start with The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, first published on May 7, 1900.The illustrations are by W.W. Denslow, who depicts Dorothy as a young girl (maybe around eight) with dark hairBaum's "Kansas" is very bleak. From what I've read, it's…
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Deck Log Entry # 248 Overture
Some of you may have noticed that I’ve resumed making entries in my Deck Log column and are wondering what that speaks to developments in my personal life. As you’ll recall, I’d suspended my regular Deck Log entries (other than my annual Silver-Age…
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Walt Simonson's Thor
This will be a discussion of Walt Simonson’s run on Thor. I’ll be covering issues of Thor from 337-382, as well as the Balder the Brave mini-series.
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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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