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Tag Archives: Comics
January Reading (From the Books)
I’m going to try, in 2022, to write a monthly recap of the books (and other things) I read each month. I had a good reading month and am well on my way to meeting my annual goal of 52 … Continue reading
Oh wait…the MCU already HAS a talking duck….
Seen on Twitter this morning: he escaped pic.twitter.com/HKeL7m83Rc — Rob (@thegallowboob) November 6, 2021 That duck is on a mission, and no wrought-iron fence is gonna keep him from having his revenge!!! But…revenge against whom, you might ask? Well, because … Continue reading
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Recent Book Notes!
Here’s some recent reading I’ve done! I don’t have pictures of the covers, unfortunately. (Several of them I forgot to snapshot before I whisked them back to the library.) :: Maybe you didn’t know that you needed a graphic novel … Continue reading
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2021 in the Books: Beethoven, Merlin, and the Hardy Boys meet Veronica Mars
Here’s some of my recent reading! :: Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary by John Clubbe is simply superb. I wanted to get this one done in time to blog about it during 2020, but getting it done this year is fine. While … Continue reading
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In which a daily newspaper comic strip delivers the greatest single sentence in the history of the English language
I thought I had blogged about the current incarnation of the venerable comic strip Nancy at some point, but apparently I haven’t! Or if I have, I can’t find the post in the archives. Anyway, today’s installment contains one sentence that … Continue reading
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Richard Thompson and CUL DE SAC
2016 was an awful year for creative people passing away, but one death that I didn’t see a whole lot of comment about was that of cartoonist Richard Thompson of complications from Parkinson’s Disease. Thompson was the brilliant mind behind … Continue reading
PJ is sick of your shit
It was only a matter of time. PJ is gonna f*** Jeffy up.
I hate you, Les.
I stopped reading Funky Winkerbean a while back, because it just got too…too…how to put this…the people in it are all assholes. But I still catch it on Sundays because we get that paper, so now I know that Les Moore … Continue reading
You mean, like those non-educated idiots working at Montoni’s Pizza?
For some unknown reason, I’ve been reading Funky Winkerbean for a number of years now, despite the fact that it’s awful. It’s probably the only real instance of “hate watching” I have. That term came about mostly in reference to … Continue reading