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Tag: Reading & Reviews
Forget It Jake, It’s Fabletown, Part 4: The Art Of Urban Barbecue
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Forget It Jake, It’s Fabletown, Part 3: Reporter, I ‘Ardly Know Her
ONCE UPON A TIME, mistakes were made. And as far as community-service sentences go, I reckon yelling about comics while watching Star Trek: Picard is getting off fairly easy. In f–YO WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MY BOY JAMES CALLIS, HOLY SHIT GAIUS BALTAR IN THE HOUSE! Or w–wait, it’s been some years since my…
Auld Langue Mystique: The Ballistic Omniglossia Of Curse Words
I try preeeeeetty hard to make my posts relatable and have as broad an appeal as possible, but this one? Ohohoho, she is just for me, citizens. Yesterday I finished a run-up of Curse Words, the criminal enterprise/war on decency/gift to humanity by Charles Soule (various Star Wars titles, Eight Billion Genies, Undiscovered Country, Daredevil:…
Books Read September 2022
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Forget It Jake, It’s Fabletown, Part 2: Farmful If Swallowed
So, according to these instructions rubber-banded to a can of vitamin soup that just flew through my—thankfully open—window, I’m supposed to review Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm and see what there is to like about it? What the hell? Who signed me up for this? THE MAGNIFICENT BASTARD, HE’S ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD. (Obligatory reminder…
Resurrected Review: Comic Bento November 2015
[Long before I began to Blog, I would periodically do reviews of stuff on my Facebook, frequently the subscription-crate services that were all the rage before we were consumed with actual rage by the 2016 election.I thought it might be fun to share one here now and then as a peek into the past and…
Books Read August 2022!
I don’t wanna straighten upI don’t wanna fly rightI just wanna drive around a whileAnd bust a couple things up with the bad kids
Books Read July 2022
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Books Read May 2022
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