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What I bought – May and June 2011
Hey, look at that! I’m back in Arizona and I picked up almost two months’ worth of comics! Yeah, I’m not going to review them properly here – that would take waaaaaaaay too long. This is more of a “What I bought and the random thoughts I have about the issues and, why not, what [...]
She Has No Head! – Ladies Comics Project: Phase II, Part Three
Welcome to Part Three of The Ladies Comics Project Phase II in which a handful of my colleagues, family, and friends – both new and old – and both those familiar with comics and not – read and reviewed a graphic novel or trade from my own personal library. For more details about this project [...]
What I bought – 26 January 2011
For if the sun is at the center and not the earth, then there are no crystal spheres to hold us in; we have only and always fooled ourselves, we men, kept ourselves within the spheres which our own flawed and insufficient senses perceived, but which were never there at all. The way to ascend [...]
What I bought – 21 April 2010
“It is something so monstrous it is past sin and becomes necessity,” he said. (Greg Bear, from “Petra”)
What I bought – 14 April 2010
You stay in prison, what your time calls duty, honor, self-respect, and you are comfortably safe. Or you are free and crucified. Your only companions the stones, the thorns, the turning backs; the silence of cities, and their hate. (John Fowles, from The French Lieutenant’s Woman)
Flippin’ through Previews – February 2010
The Marvel Universe has apparently never existed before … because it starts in Previews #257!
What I bought – 23 December 2009
Ah, villains, hath that Mortimer escap’d? With him is Edmund gone associate? And will Sir John of Hainault lead the round? Welcome, o’ God’s name, madam, and your son! England shall welcome you and all your rout. Gallop apace, bright Phoebus, through the sky; And, dusky Night, in rusty iron car, Between you both shorten [...]
What I bought – 18 November 2009
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh’ hath seal’d thee for herself, for thou hast been As one in suff’ring all that suffers nothing, A man that Fortune’s buffets and rewards Hast ta’en with equal thanks; and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are [...]
What I bought – 11 November 2009
“I love my dead gay son!” The Anchor #2 (“Five Furies Part Two: Bark and Hide, Bone and Root”) by Phil Hester (writer), Brian Churilla (artist), Matthew Wilson (colorist), and Johnny Lowe (letterer). $3.99, 22 pgs, FC, Boom! Studios.
