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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #374: For as Long as the Path Goes
The path of Promethea is a long one. Or at least it’s a convoluted one. The path, for the most part, is many things and goes in many different directions, sometimes looping back upon itself endlessly. But then that’s a part of the structure of the story Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray, Jeromy… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #378: Time Bandits
The things we watch as kids. Oliver! often made the rounds in my parents’ VCR. It taught me many things such as not asking for more gruel from a portly man wearing a Napoleon hat. He will sing a song about how awful you are in front of the other orphans. Then he’ll take you out in… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #373: And It Continues
Last week I began my first foray into Promethea, a series that I had initially thought had some kind of basis in mythology, but was a fiction Alan Moore had created as the foundation for a sprawling story centered around the idea of his own creation. Not content with only looking at one volume of this story,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #367: Labyrinth
I have to confess something. I don’t have rose colored glasses when it comes to the 1980s. It was the age of Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, and Herself the Elf. Also, don’t get me started on Cabbage Patch Kids. I found them disgusting then. I find them disgusting now. I didn’t like cute things. I liked monsters. Fortunately, tonight’s… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #372: There’s a Continuity Here
There are rather large gaps in my comics knowledge. I only have so much time and there’s always new issues to read, stories to digest, and discoveries to make when plunging into my endless back-logged pile. But there’s other series that I had just missed completely. The global backlog that doesn’t confront me on my… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #366: The Dark Crystal
Does anyone remember that time Kenny Rogers guest starred on The Muppet Show? He performed “The Gambler” in front of a live audience. Instead of Kermit or Gonzo or Fozzie Bear, he shares the train compartment with three muppets designed to look like old men. There are times during his performance, Kenny Rogers is fighting not… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #365: The NeverEnding Story
As many of you know, I had lost my Beanie Baby collection due to that fracas at the Museum of Schlock. But that’s okay. I have a new obsession. Labubu! I just love those little rascals. I have Tycoco, Lychee Berry, Green Grape, Puca, Zizi, and Zymomo. I built a custom oak shelf above my… Continue reading
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MCClurg’s Musicalia #158: Cradle to Candle
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #35: The Ataraxy of Influence
by DMETRI KAKMI In 2006 I excavated a troubled past by writing Mother Land, a fictionalised memoir about my family’s life on Bozcaada, a Turkish island. Childhood memories clashed with my life as an editor at Penguin Books. Some weeks I had one foot in Turkey and one foot in Australia. Sometimes, my sanity seemed at breaking point. I doubted the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #371: It Never Ends, Does It?
It’s 2009 and I’m reading Greg Rucka and a distinct artist begin their run on a character-defining run for Batwoman. It’s 2026 and I’m reading Greg Rucka and a distinct artist begin their run for Batwoman. Sometimes things exist in cycles and sometimes time finds a way to rhyme across nearly two decades. It was that… Continue reading
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