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Flippin’ through Previews – February 2013
Oh, DC – you never fail to amuse, and Previews #293 is a perfect example of that!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines Archive!
Yes, it’s a list of all the posts in which I’ve been looking at the first pages of comics. You could just click the category tag, but in this post, I’ve organized them! Whoo-hoo! I placed this on 1 January for the entire year, but now that the year is over, I thought I’d move it to the final day of the year!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 115: Crécy
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be doing theme weeks (more or less), with each week devoted to a single writer. This quasi-week: Warren Ellis. Today’s page is from Crécy, which was published by Avatar and is cover dated July 2007. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 113: Strange Kiss #2
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be doing theme weeks (more or less), with each week devoted to a single writer. This quasi-week: Warren Ellis. Today’s page is from Strange Kiss #2, which was published by Avatar and is cover dated January 2000. Enjoy!
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Flippin’ through Previews – December 2011
Are you looking to do a little Christmas shopping? Well, too bad – Previews #279 is NOT for you! (Because it, you know, has books for February and beyond, so it’s too late for Christmas shopping, so it’s funny that it’s the “December” issue, right, and … oh, let’s just move on.)
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What I bought – 26 October 2011
I understood it this evening: the author has to die in order for the reader to become aware of his truth. (Umberto Eco, from Foucault’s Pendulum)
What I bought – 19 October 2011
My granddaughter Andrea wrote a composition for school in which she said that she liked her “grandmother’s imagination.” I asked her what she was referring to, and without hesitation she replied, “You remember things that never happened.” Don’t we all do that? (Isabel Allende, from My Invented Country)
Flippin’ through Previews – July 2011
Oh, no – is it the Apocalypse?!?!? Only Previews #274 knows for sure!
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Flippin’ through Previews – June 2011
Let’s check out this month’s Previews with the full knowledge that these are the last times we’ll see all these DC titles in their current incarnations!
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What I bought – 9 March 2011
She told him about God, who resembled her strongly, an amiable, loving and sad person given to losing things, and dropping things. He it was, struggling to hold aloft so much, that fumbled and let fall their mother from out his tender embrace. (John Banville, from Doctor Copernicus)
Flippin’ through Previews – August 2010
Can you stand the suspense?!?!?!?
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What I bought – 30 June 2010
The difference between men and sheep seems to be that men, unlike sheep, need not be led to the slaughter but are carried there on the wings of their own enthusiasm. (William Gerhardie, from God’s Fifth Column)
Flippin’ through Previews – July 2010
One thing really cracked me up about this month’s Previews … and then someone else pointed out how stupid it was before I could. Damn it!!!!!!
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Flippin’ through Previews – June 2010
You know, I always thought Superman needed a Bill Belichick hoodie. Thanks to Previews #261, I no longer have to wonder what that looks like!
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