Category: blog posts
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First: Ravi Shankar I lucked into this one. When I was like six years old my parents had tickets to see Ravi in Iowa City, and a few nights before the show my sister broke her leg. My mom wanted to stay home with her instead of getting a babysitter,…
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I became a blog addict because I was a kid who loved movies. In the early 2000s, the movie blogosphere was a very exciting place for developing nerds to find themselves. The first movie website that I got really into was the AV Club, back when Nathan Rabin, Keith Phipps,…
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Stories about characters like Punisher that dig deep into the grimmest, darkest grim darkness are, Frank-ly speaking, a dime a dozen. It takes a writer like Garth Ennis, with a vile and blackhearted sense of humor and a grotesquely sprawling imagination, to make one of these stories feel like something…
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Team-up books can be a lot. Morrison leans hard into the just-too-muchness of an all-in Justice League story by following news broadcasts and other mass communications from place to place and character to character, creating a pulsing rhythm that kept me engaged where I sometimes find my interest drifting in…
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Sarah Wynn-Williams began her career in diplomacy and international relations. At the UN, she found herself working with other bureaucrats who got into their line of work because they care – about peace, about climate and our environment, about improving quality of life for people around the world. She also…
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I love to read a time travel story that’s as well thought out as this one. While tearing through the fast-paced plot, you’ll notice over and over again that something that was set up earlier without even appearing to be foreshadowing thunks perfectly into place. Using the inherent limitations of…
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A strong second outing for forensic accountant/shaggy neo-noir hero Marty Hench. Doctorow writes with a passionate point of view and a strong social conscience. He is mad about the private prison industry and its abuse of human rights in the name of profit, and he illustrates how the whole ugly scam plays…
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This book meanders its way through Cleveland’s history and episodes from Pekar’s life with the rambling cadence of a stroll through an old neighborhood. Even with so much of the focus on historical facts, Pekar finds plenty of moments to delight in the splendor of being alive. He was a…
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I bought this collection after hearing the rave reviews for Tom King’s Batman/Elmer Fudd crossover. It lived up to the hype and then some – the author and artist play the Ed Brubaker-style retro-noir-with-Looney-Tunes-guys angle absolutely straight and allow the humor to emerge naturally, and it hits just the right…
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This book plays out like an exciting transitional episode of a serialized TV show, and I mean that as a compliment. Murderbot finally catches back up with its primary crew of humans, and Wells does a fantastic job revealing important elements of Murderbot and Dr. Mensah’s personalities through moments of…
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