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Minimalist memes
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Ramblin' with Roger. Roger Green: a librarian's life, deconstructed. January 31st, 2011. First one from Jaquandor. Which puts me into the spirit of Fiddler on the Roof, specifically If I Were A Rich Man. If I were a month, I’d be March. If I were a day of the week, I’d be Sunday. If I were a time of day, I’d be 10 am. If I were a planet, I’d be Neptune. If I were a sea animal, I’d be a dolphin. If I were a direction, I’d be northeast. If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be an ottoman. If I were an emotion.
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Flashmob Fridays - A Trouble With Comics Joint: February 2012
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Alan Moore's Twilight Proposal. Introduction by Alan David Doane:. Honestly I didn't intend the irony, but this week's FMF, looking at Alan Moore's never-published Twilight proposal. Also represents the twilight of Flashmob Fridays. This is our final outing. So thanks for hanging out with us here every week, and I hope you'll check out our efforts over at Trouble With Comics. With that, here's our final Flashmob Fridays. Take it away, gang. Is correct, it was the Mattel merchandising that dictated at lea...
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Flashmob Fridays - A Trouble With Comics Joint: Conan The Barbarian #1
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Conan The Barbarian #1. Introduction by Alan David Doane:. I didn't find myself falling into the world of Conan in this latest relaunch of the series in comics form, but then again, I almost never have. Love and Rockets and Elfquest, but Howard and his world still eluded me. Amazingly, when I met Barry Windsor-Smith in-person to interview him back on the next-to-last day of 1999. I still hadn't read much Conan. I was by then well aware of the general outline of the character's mythology (hotly debate...
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Flashmob Fridays - A Trouble With Comics Joint: September 2009
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Flashmob Fridays #001: Final Crisis. Here's the deal: Flashmob Fridays here on Trouble with Comics means that every Friday, the TWC gang will receive last-minute notice that it's time to review a particular comic or graphic novel (or movie or novel or who the hell knows what? And we'll aggregate them all here on Flashmob Fridays. This week's inaugural edition covers Final Crisis. By Grant Morrison, JG Jones and company. TROUBLE TEAM GO. 100, or even Crisis on Infinite Earths. He's been trotting out the s...
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The Tearoom of Despair: May 2015
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The Tearoom of Despair. I bow down not to masters, gods, nor managers, cause all the greatest artists, they were amateurs. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Tying the world together (and getting your end away) with Philip Jose Farmer. Philip Jose Farmer was tapping into something powerful when he had Doc Savage and Tarzan literally cross cocks that one time, and we're not just talking about the obvious throbbing members. Farmer was always the totally harmless, slightly inappropriate and enormously entertaining drunk...
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The Tearoom of Despair: April 2015
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The Tearoom of Despair. I bow down not to masters, gods, nor managers, cause all the greatest artists, they were amateurs. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. 2000ad on the shelf: Another face of comics. I'm a deep comic nerd, and I'm often left wondering how packed comic shelves look to the general public. Sometimes I wonder what they make of entire lines of comics. And sometimes I wonder what they make of individual issues, especially when it's been coming out every week for decades. The comic is still going st...
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The Tearoom of Despair: You can't go home again
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The Tearoom of Despair. I bow down not to masters, gods, nor managers, cause all the greatest artists, they were amateurs. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. You can't go home again. I went back to my old home town over the weekend, and suffered the usual bouts of discombobulating nostalgia. Driving around the streets I grew up on, every street and ever corner is infused with meaning and experience, and it's almost overwhelming. It's the comics. It's always the bloody comics. But I'm not sure this is always such a ...
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The Tearoom of Despair: Everything is wonderfully pointless: Who's Who and Official Handbooks
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The Tearoom of Despair. I bow down not to masters, gods, nor managers, cause all the greatest artists, they were amateurs. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Everything is wonderfully pointless: Who's Who and Official Handbooks. They're 30 years out of date, and are obsessed with a continuity that has been rewritten four or five times since. They're totally useless in this 21st century, but that's just another reason why I can't bring myself to get rid of them. It's all about the context. Unless you're 70 year...
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Warren Peace Sings the Blues: Love and Rockets: One out of two ain't bad
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Thursday, September 24, 2009. One out of two ain't bad. Let's get straight to the good stuff:. Love and Rockets: New Stories. By Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. Well, I didn't think it was possible, but Gilbert Hernandez finally lost me with his portion of this year's volume. I've stuck with him through plenty of head-scratchers like Sloth. And Speak of the Devil. That would explain some of the anatomical improbabilities, at least in terms of cartoon genetics). Maybe Gilbert is trying to make a point, o...
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