Posted on July 31, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Comic reviews tonight. Italy seems to be worryingly close to fascism. When you have troops on the streets dealing with crime and an ‘immigrant problem’, that’s not a good thing… Lawyers, Guns and Money have an article which should be required reading for everyone on the link between drug companies and the moral panic over [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
XKCD has a cautionary tale. Power Pop Criminals is sharing a Japanese-only compilation from ten years ago. I’ve not had a chance to listen to it yet, but anything with Chewy Marble and The Mockers on it is at least worth checking out. Speaking of sharing music… Cory Doctorow explains why the new measures being [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
It is far, far too hot today. As a result my brain has shut down and my fingers are typing this on autopilot, so forgive the overly-verbose prose style and higher than usual levels of sarcasm. I don’t intend to post often about superhero films here – much as I love superhero comics, I’m far [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Now I have something approximating a working computer again, I can get back to bloggery. I’ll be doing a proper update tonight, but for now here’s some links. (Of course, I’ve lost the link for the big news, which is Gaiman doing a two-part Batman story. I just hope that doesn’t mean Morrison is leaving [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
I did have a few posts planned for today (some linkblogging, a review of The Dark Knight, a couple of other bits). Unfortunately a pint-mug of coffee and the wiring of my laptop had other plans, and got together to make my computer not work. Normal service hopefully to resume shortly.
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Posted on July 24, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Did Glamourpuss 2 actually come out this week like it was meant to? It wasn’t in my pull list, but my local comics shop do sometimes miss stuff, especially non-big-two things.
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Posted on July 24, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
No comics links today,, as such, as every comic blogger in the world is talking about Geek Glastonbury San Diego “Comic” Con (which seems more of a film/media event from the descriptions, but heigh ho). I’ll hopefully be posting reviews of some of today’s comics tonight. Chris Bird sums up rather well why I won’t [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Apes, Legal Personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky, about the 1970s ‘talking’ chimp, is worth a read/listen. The Sun has been photoshopping black people out of photos. New Labour’s attitude to poor people. Shockingly, I still actually know some people who are going to vote for Labour. But then I look at the Tories’ [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Like everyone else who writes about comics, or even has ever heard the word comic in their life, I am obliged by law to have an opinion on the upcoming film version of Watchmen. (I’m not even going to consider the ‘motion comics’ thing that just came out. This is partly because I couldn’t access [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
I’ll be posting about adaptations tonight, unless something more interesting to write about comes along, but in the meantime a few links. These were meant to go up last night, but I spent my blogging time waiting on the phone for my ISP as my net connection was down, then as soon as I got [...]
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