Fantagraphics
Trade paperbacks, older editions, and miscellaneous for April 2013
“And for a while things were cold / They were scared down in their holes / The forest that once was green / Was coloured black by those killing machines”
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It’s time for a COMICS FACT!
You will not read a more beautiful comic book this week or possibly this month than 50 Girls 50, the new collection of Al Williamson EC science fiction stories that is published by Fantagraphics. SO STATES OBVIOUS MAN!
Obvious Man is obvious!
Flippin’ through Previews – April 2013
I’m back on schedule, so let’s dig into Previews #295 and see what’s what!
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What I bought – 27 February and 6 March 2013
George looked at his granddaughter’s empty suit. He thought of Job. Satan lacked imagination. To crack a man’s faith, one need not resort to burning his flesh, ruining his finances, or any such obvious afflictions. One need only take a man’s species away from him. (James Morrow, This Is The Way The World Ends)
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What I bought – 9 January 2013
She said, “In every age, there must be truths people can’t fight – whether or not they want to, whether or not they will go on being truths in the future. We live in the truth of what Freud discovered. Whether or not we like it. However we’ve modified it. We aren’t really free to suppose – to imagine – he could possibly have been wrong about human nature. In particulars, surely – but not in the large plan –” (A. S. Byatt, from Possession)
Flippin’ through Previews – January 2013
So the wheel turns back around, and a fresh catalog of Previews arrives on my doorstep. Issue #292 is here!
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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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Review time! with Blacklung
Pirate comics! Everyone loves pirate comics!
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What I bought – 19 December 2012
“And the good thing about feeling really happy, you know, Valentin? … It’s that you think it’s forever, that one’s never ever going to feel unhappy again.” (Manuel Puig, from Kiss of the Spider Woman)
What I bought – 7 November 2012
Out of the seven days of creation, four were successful and three were unsuccessful. Only one day held sway and made this world a successful world. That was the seventh day, the day of rest, when the Creator did nothing. (Milorad Pavić, from Landscape Painted with Tea)
Flippin’ through Previews – November 2012
Hey, what do you know? Another month has passed, and Previews #290 has dropped! Let’s check it out, even though all of this has been available on the Internet for two or more weeks!
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Flippin’ through Previews – October 2012
I will never be so jaded about comics that I don’t enjoy a good stroll through Previews! It’s time for catalog #289!
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Flippin’ through Previews – September 2012
Every month, I’m so excited to write up these posts and I think to myself, “This time I’ll write a lot about DC and Marvel and how cool their stuff is!” And then I start reading Previews … and, yeah. Maybe this month will be different, so let’s jump right into issue #288!
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Trade paperbacks, older editions, and miscellaneous for July 2012
As I noted last month, some of the stuff I bought in June ended up in this post. Oh well – we don’t stand on ceremony here at ye olde blogge!
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What I bought – 11 and 18 July 2012
“How do you feel, Yossarian?”
“Fine. No, I’m very frightened.”
“That’s good,” said Major Danby. “It proves you’re still alive.” (Joseph Heller, from Catch-22)
