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Pamphlets of Destiny: August 2015
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015. Star Wars: A Long Time Ago. Archie Goodwin, Carmine Infantino and many, many others. Star Wars: A Long Time Ago. I was twelve when Star Wars. Came out, and naturally I was excited about the whole thing before I'd even seen it. I'd read the two giant-sized Marvel specials - weird collectors editions the size of tabloid newspapers - and I'd read that first issue of Starburst. And a couple of those other tie-in making of. Didn't disappoint when it arrived, although on close inspec...
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Pamphlets of Destiny: November 2014
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Sunday, 23 November 2014. Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore Voice of the Fire. There aren't any pictures to keep you going, and the bearded one throws us in at the deep end with the first chapter, Hob's Hog. Make she a cat-noise, as for say that I make more loud as I may. Say she that chewing-thing is make in fire with dusts from sun-grass take, as grow here by, with little waters put to they. Eat I, and it is good, and good is fire-meat now in mouth of I. Is ox, by lick of he. Actually, there are. The humou...
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Pamphlets of Destiny: Perdido Street Station
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015. China Miéville Perdido Street Station. I'd heard good things about China Miéville, and it seemed like time to give him a shot, encouraged somewhat by those less favourable online reviews promising an author who liked to show off. Begins well with vivid and engrossing descriptions of the world it inhabits, a world Warren James describes - in the selection of quotations from reviews serving for preface - as a cross between. Blade Runner and the London of Charles Dickens. Is none of...
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Pamphlets of Destiny: Animal Man: Animal vs. Man / Rotworld - the Red Kingdom
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Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Animal Man: Animal vs. Man / Rotworld - the Red Kingdom. Jeff Lemire, Scott Snyder, Steve Pugh, Travel Foreman etc. Animal Man: Animal vs. Man. Animal Man: Rotworld - the Red Kingdom. China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. Comic seemed to fit the bill, not least because of my having two whole unread volumes in which to immerse myself. Interestingly enough, the thematic shift is probably not that pronounced, given the emphasis on biological horror in Perdido Street Station.
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Pamphlets of Destiny: September 2014
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Saturday, 13 September 2014. Granta 128: American Wild. Sigrid Rausing (editor) Granta. Often state cases amounting to because real life is boring innit. Which probably says more about them and their lives than it does about literature of any form. I would rather gouge out my own eyes out with a spoon than sit through the tedium of a Mike Leigh film. Opined one facebook dwelling Doctor Who. And the future changes now. Because no-one had bothered to write a script that week. The key word here is fan.
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Pamphlets of Destiny: March 2015
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Sunday, 29 March 2015. Red Lanterns: Blood and Rage. Peter Milligan, Ed Benes and Rob Hunter. Red Lanterns: Blood and Rage. There used to be a couple of DC comics of which I was quite fond way back in the mists of time - the Keith Giffen version of Justice League. The New Teen Titans. A couple of months ago, Junior - who is eleven - began to babble about the Red Lanterns. I say I remember liking a few things by Pete Milligan, but I suppose I mean mainly Bix Barton. And his run on DC's Animal Man. The art...
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Pamphlets of Destiny: February 2015
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Wednesday, 25 February 2015. The Trail of Cthulhu. August Derleth The Trail of Cthulhu. Yes, I know. My to-be-read. Hadn't yet been invented so his traipsing along to Hanna-Barbera with a proposal would have been a complete waste of time. Of course, none of this is specifically Lovecraft's fault, and as always the worst element of any cultural success story will usually be its stupid fucking fans. So, The Trail of Cthulhu. The Trail of Cthulhu. Fuck me - it. Wasn't just my imagination after all, and.
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Pamphlets of Destiny: The Nargun and the Stars
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Tuesday, 28 July 2015. The Nargun and the Stars. Patricia Wrightson The Nargun and the Stars. Back in the 1970s when I was a kid, Australia was England's closest neighbour - closer than France, closer than even. A fifteen minute daily broadcast of a book read by somebody vaguely famous - joined in with its recital of Patricia Wrightson's The Nargun and the Stars. As featured on Jackanory. The Nargun and the Stars. Oddly, not very much actually happens in this novel. Events unfold at a leisurely rural...
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Book Giveaway Contest: The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi - The Steampunk Librarian
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Laquo; Contest Winners - Osiris Curse! Contest Winner - The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi ». November 12, 2013. Book Giveaway Contest: The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi. We have another Burton and Swinburne adventure to give away to some lucky person! Three years ago, we started our review of. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack. The first book in Mark Hodder’s series, thusly. 0160;Now, in. The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi. To meet his Royal Highness Prince Albert, when. It’s a welcome return. More information on au...
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Book Giveaway Contest: The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi - The Steampunk Librarian
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Laquo; Contest Winners - Osiris Curse! Contest Winner - The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi ». November 12, 2013. Book Giveaway Contest: The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi. We have another Burton and Swinburne adventure to give away to some lucky person! Three years ago, we started our review of. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack. The first book in Mark Hodder’s series, thusly. 0160;Now, in. The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi. To meet his Royal Highness Prince Albert, when. It’s a welcome return. More information on au...
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