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Trade paperbacks, older editions, and miscellaneous for November 2012

by | November 30, 2012 | 15 Comments |

Another month, another bunch of trade paperbacks. Plus: real books? What craziness is this????
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Comic Reviews, What I Bought

What I bought – 21 November 2012

by | November 23, 2012 | 60 Comments |

Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares. (Joseph Conrad, from Heart of Darkness)

Man So many layers in this cover! Is he playing Ultimate Frisbee? Ka-Blooey! It's an ELEPHANT HOLDING A GUN!!!! Where's ... my ... hand lotion?!?!? It's all yin and yang and shit! Analog!!! Were there supposed to be fairies in this issue? So many veins! She might be cold enough to wear a fur-lined cloak, but she also has to show some leg! That's a strange pose I gotta get me some jodhpurs, man! So many phallic symbols! It was fun, Parker! That's an interesting take on the Civil War Fact: Tim Truman is good! I'm giving it the old college try! The Huffington Post likes it! It has aliens! I want so much to like this!
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Comic Reviews, What I Bought

What I bought – 14 March 2012

by | March 15, 2012 | 34 Comments |

‘We are happy lovers. Aren’t we? And happiness makes one stupid. Happiness and wisdom do not go together, just as body and thought do not go together. Because only pain is the thought of the body. In other words, happy people become stupid people. It is only when they get tired of their happiness that lovers can become wise again, if that is what they otherwise are.’ (Milorad Pavić, from Last Love in Constantinople)

No one can see you! Action face KICK!!!!! It can't be comfortable sitting in milk like that 'What do you mean, I have to leave a tip?!?!?!?!' That guy is thinking that it's too cold for this shit What a controversial cover!!!!! How nice for it to show up ...... finally! Aliens ... Hispanics ... oh, I get it now! I kind of wanted the J. H. Williams variant, because it's damned cool Wasn't that a Red Hot Chili Peppers song? I'm hung up on some comics from the Sixties, man! That's a damned fine cover! MCKELVIE!!!!!!
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