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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: 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: 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: October 2014

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Monday, 27 October 2014. The Sun Also Rises. Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises. William Burroughs said of the cut-up technique he introduced to literature - as formalised by himself and Brion Gysin - something along the lines of the novel being some twenty or so years behind painting, the art world having dispensed with the purely representational in the wake of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Of 1915 immediately to mind. Anyway, The Sun Also Rises. Reckons that in The Sun Also Rises. But personal...

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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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