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Consideration of Works “Past”: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Posted on June 16, 2013 by

Usually I talk about works I read when I was younger now rediscovered. But in this case, I’m going to talk about something that I’ve read relatively recently– not the film version of Nausicaä.The manga. In a way, this is … Continue reading →


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Webcomics of Interest

Posted on June 2, 2013 by

(Picture from here.) I follow about four hundred web comics. A bunch of them can be seen here. Fortunately, the update schedule for most of these brings it down to about fifty or so a day. Is that a lot? … Continue reading →


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Censoring Comics

Posted on October 5, 2012 by

By Brenda Clough This image could be one of those Facebook memes — if you know what this is, we know how old you are! There was a time when almost every single comic book had one of these seals at … Continue reading →


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The Dark Knight Rises: A Very Short Review

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

By Brenda Clough Now more than ever, it is important to go and see The Dark Knight Rises. So in a sense it is not that important, whether it is a good movie or not. But a show that everyone sees … Continue reading →


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Writing Nowadays–What DC and Marvel Did

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

The media went BLIP! when Marvel Comics announced that Northstar, one of the X-Men, would marry his boyfriend in an upcoming issue. The media went BLIP! again when DC announced that Alan Scott, a Green Lantern, was being rebooted as … Continue reading →


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Astro City Vol. 2: Confession: A Very Short Review

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

By Brenda Clough I am famously a slow adopter — good grief, I knit and write fiction!  I may acquire my very first laptop this year, if the budget holds up, and only this month did I pick up a … Continue reading →


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Justice League of America #1: A Very Short Review

Posted on September 5, 2011 by

By Brenda Clough As you probably have heard, DC Comics is rebooting its entire superhero line.   The basic idea is to shed some of the accreted back story and complications, starting over so as to attract new readers. The first … Continue reading →


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Comics at Worldcon: A Very Short Review

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

The 2011 World Science Fiction Convention was held in Reno, NV last weekend, and it was a blast!  I was on a couple of panels about the state of the comics world, and we discussed the plague of massive crossover … Continue reading →


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A Padawan’s Journal #38: Terra Incognita

Posted on February 9, 2011 by

Well, I finally did it. I stumped the experts. Michael and I determined to set Shadow Games in a variety of locales but, as things transpired, a little-used location will be the scene of the penultimate confrontation and an epic … Continue reading →


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Knight and Squire: A Very Short Review

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

The number of Batman spinoffs is probably nearly infinite, with more coming out every month. But here is an unusual one: Knight and Squire.  The conceit is that other nations, unable or uninterested in generating their own superheroes, borrow the … Continue reading →


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