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My Top 10 Thoughts on Kill Bill
I've watched the films a lot lately. I saw them on AMC, couldn't bear to see them all edited, dug the DVDs out, and still haven't put them back.10. If you're rolling through a parking garage in a...
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Top 10 Thoughts On Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
10. I thought it was good. I didn't think it was great. I don't think any of the Harry Potter films were great. 9. I was glad to see the Slytherin students were put in the dungeon. I wonder if they had...
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Review - Lone Wolf & Cub Vol. 3: The Flute of the Fallen Tiger
Lone Wolf & Cub Vol. 3: The Flute of the Fallen TigerBy Kazuo Koike and Goseki KojimaPublished by Dark Horse; $9.95 US311 pagesThe third volume of Lone Wolf & Cub finds the father-son team of...
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Review - Lone Wolf & Cub Vol. 4: The Bell Warden
Lone Wolf & Cub Vol. 4: The Bell WardenBy Kazuo Koike and Goseki KojimaPublished by Dark Horse; $9.95 US319 pagesThe world of Lone Wolf & Cub is brutal and unforgiving, and children are not...
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This is me fighting crime
Mick Martin War Journal:Tuesday morning, 8/16/11:I ate too much pizza.I am back on the night shift, but only for a week. It is the closest I will ever come to the world of Batman. I don't fight the...
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Review - Lone Wolf & Cub Vol. 5: Black Wind
Lone Wolf & Cub Vol. 5: Black WindBy Kazuo Koike and Goseki KojimaPublished by Dark Horse; $9.95 US288 pagesWhile each chapter of Lone Wolf & Cub is part of a larger story beginning with Yagyu...
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Learning to love Star Trek: The Next Generation
After I returned from the night shift this morning, I was trying to think of ways to keep myself up for a few more hours. A discussion with some friends at a recent party stirred some tentative...
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Week In Review
This morning my review of Feynman, the graphic novel biography of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, went up at PLAYBACK:stl.In a turn of events so stunning it would have had some kind of serious...
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Review - Lone Wolf & Cub Vol. 6: Lanterns for the Dead
Lone Wolf & Cub Vol. 6: Lanterns for the DeadBy Kazuo Koike and Goseki KojimaPublished by Dark Horse; $9.95 US287 pagesOne of the most haunting questions about Lone Wolf & Cub is the question...
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52 Chances to Learn to Love DC, plus Highlander
I'm looking for the help of other comics folk for a bit of a long comics reviewing project. Over at Alex Ness's group blog Poplitiko, I'm looking for 52 Chances to Learn to Love DC. I'm looking for 52...
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Just a little fyi...
I just wanted to let any regular Superheroes, etc. readers know that things got really, really busy and then turned really, really slow not because Superheroes, etc. is going dark again - and it isn't...
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Learning to Love Star Trek: The Next Generation, Part 1
My relationship with Star Trek and its offspring is turbulent. I enjoyed a brief, intense love for the original series in my teens but it didn't last. I saw a chunk of Star Trek: The Next Generation,...
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Aliases
A brief piece of conversation recorded in Joe Simon: My Life in Comics from a deposition Joe Simon testified at while attempting to reclaim the copyright to Captain America."Do you know any of the...
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Breaking Bad is a period piece about an ancient time we have not forgotten,...
Last week I watched all of Breaking Bad's first 3 seasons on Netflix streaming. After watching so many episodes in a row, I couldn't help but notice that no one uses smartphones on the show. All the...
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Capital Region Folks - Comics and Cards for sale
I've been steadily shaving away my floppy collection for a few years. I'm moving in May and I figure it's time to finally get rid of the whole thing. I also have a bunch of Magic: The Gathering cards I...
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My imagination is Borg
At 4 am I woke up, thinking I'd heard the doorbell. I tried to imagine why someone would ring the doorbell at that hour, and because of my enduring faith in humanity my only answer was that someone was...
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Flying into the Sun
I hate doing this, and yet I do it again and again.I review, I blog, and eventually I stop. I go dark for a few months, a year, or more. Eventually I come back and feel the need to explain my absence,...
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Review - Hulk: Season One
Hulk: Season OneBy Fred Van Lente and Tom FowlerPublished By Marvel; $24.99 US136 pagesIf you know me and/or if you've ever been a regular reader of the blog, you probably know Hulk is a favorite of...
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Top 10 Thoughts About Todd Akin
So, clearly I'm a little late to the Fuck Todd Akin party, but I'm trying to wrap my head around a few things.10. Now, let's say there were anything at all that Todd Akin said that was based on...
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Learning to Love Star Trek: The Next Generation, Part 2
You can read Part 1 here.Shortly before I let the blog go dark, I started a project to watch and review 21 specific episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation recommended by Alan Doane. The idea came...
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