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Why I don’t trust Scott Snyder
As a writer, that is. I don’t know him personally, so maybe he’s an excellent dude, one you can trust with your life or your money or to babysit your kids. But as a writer … I just don’t trust him yet.
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Flippin’ through Previews – June 2013
It’s time for Travis Pelkie’s favorite column! Huzzah!
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Trade paperbacks, older editions, and miscellaneous for May 2013
“Well he said, ‘One thing, before I graduate / Never let your fear decide your fate.’”
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Review time! with Not My Bag
Note: There are no tentacles in this story. Just so you know!
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Ecce libri cum picturis: The Bounce #1 and Sex #3
“Slip and slide in your wet delight, feel the blood flow / Not too fast, don’t be slow, my love’s in your hands”
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Ecce picturae intra libros: Comics art for the week of 1 May 2013
‘I met Andy Warhol at a really chic party’ / Blow it out your hairdo, ’cause you work at Hardee’s!
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Flippin’ through Previews – May 2013
Previews #296 is out in the world, and I’m going to look through it! What will I find? NO MAN CAN SAY!!!! Continue Reading »
Ecce libri cum picturis: Young Avengers #4, among other books
You know, I hate living in a world where Kelly Thompson is even a little right, confound it!!!
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Ecce liber cum picturis … ex futuro: Chew #33
John Layman was nice enough to send me a .pdf of Chew #33, which comes out on Wednesday, so I’m going to review it!
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The stupid saga of Saga #12
I wonder if I have something to rant about in this post?
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Ecce libri cum picturis: Glory #34 and Godzilla: The Half Century War #5
Two comics finished with potentially depressing final issues that got turned on their heads a bit. Let’s dive right in!
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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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Ecce liber cum pictura: East of West #1
The question is: If you can read a comic in which Jonathan Hickman does everything he does in his Marvel comics, but because he owns the characters, he can go further with them, why wouldn’t you?
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What I bought – 20 March 2013
An old Ukrainian proverb warns, “A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil.”
That is a risk we will have to take. (Tom Robbins, from Jitterbug Perfume)
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What I bought – 13 March 2013
We must harness the revolutionary Poles in the fight against Russia, we must promise the separation of this land from Russia even if it means sacrificing Galicia, so that this giant may be weakened and driven back on Asia, unless the whole earth is not to be sooner or later divided between two powers: the North Americans and the Russians. (Field-Marshal Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld of Austria, 1870)
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