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30 Day Book Challenge Day 20: Favorite Book By Your Favorite Living Author
For me, the 90s were a kind of hard period for my enjoyment of media. We had some good shows in syndication going on but it was always a struggle year to year to see if they’d get renewed. I … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 20: Favorite Book By Your Favorite Living Author
The Comic Strip Club (Sat 9/19/2020)
30 Day Book Challenge Day 19: Your Favorite Romance Novel
While science fiction and some fantasy is largely my wheelhouse, I cut my teeth on a wide range of books. Granted, I took only the SF/Fantasy stuff to school to read between classes but at home I had access to … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 19: Your Favorite Romance Novel
The Comic Strip Club (Fri 9/18/2020)
30 Day Book Challenge Day 18: Favorite Book By Your Favorite Dead Author
There was a time where I was frustrated by the types of books that were coming out in an area I was interested in that I just took a pass on it all for awhile. I used this time to … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 18: Favorite Book By Your Favorite Dead Author
Comic Book Review – Alpha Flight 0.1 (May 2011)
Written by Fred Van Lente and Greg Pak Art by Ben Oliver It’s Election Day in Canada and a day off for the members of Alpha Flight until each of them are called into action by Department H. Rolling blackouts … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Alpha Flight 0.1 (May 2011)
The Comic Strip Club (Thur 9/17/2020)
30 Day Book Challenge Day 17: The Book/Series You Want To See Adapted
Adaptations of books into film and TV is always a dicey thing but it has felt like things have gotten better and fans of the source material are allowing for a bit more freedom when it comes to adapting things, … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 17: The Book/Series You Want To See Adapted
Weekly Comics Thread 16-SEP-2020
Folks, you all know what time it is. It’s time for you tell us all about them funnybooks you’ve been enjoying lately! Whatcha buyin’? Whatcha readin’? Whatcha think about it? If you need to see what’s out this week, check … Continue reading Weekly Comics Thread 16-SEP-2020
Comic Book Chat – Detective Comics #1027
Good morning and welcome to Comic Book Chat. Today’s discussion – Celebrating Detective Comics #1027 DC Comics is celebrating Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics #27 with this milestone issue! Are you picking up this over-sized comic book this week? … Continue reading Comic Book Chat – Detective Comics #1027
The Comic Strip Club (Wed 9/16/2020)
30 Day Book Challenge Day 16: Your Favorite Crime Fiction Novel/Series/Writer
While I do tend to read science fiction more than anything else these days, largely because I spent my formative years reading a whole host of things and now just focus on what I want to read, I don’t read … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 16: Your Favorite Crime Fiction Novel/Series/Writer
The Book Nook
Welcome to the Book Nook! This is the weekly thread for Avocados to discuss books we’re currently reading, recommendations, genre, and serious literary criticism. This week’s recommended discussion: Which books are you proud to have read (weirdly proud or just … Continue reading The Book Nook
Comic Book Review – Batman/Superman #9
“Atomic” Writer – Joshua Williamson Artist – Clayton Henry Atomic Skull is wreaking havoc in Gotham City. Batman tries to stop GCPD officers from opening fire and causing unnecessary harm to Atomic Skull, but the men fail to heed the … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Batman/Superman #9
The Comic Strip Club (Tue 9/15/2020)
30 Day Book Challenge Day 15: Your Favorite Science Fiction Series
With this question, we’re going to split it into a few areas so people aren’t quite as narrowly focused or stressed in trying to come up with that single top-tier favorite. I grew up on science fiction, being a seven-year-old … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 15: Your Favorite Science Fiction Series
Classic Comic Book Read-a-long – Silver Surfer Parable
This month’s selection is Silver Surfer – Parable by Stan Lee and Moebius. We will be starting our read-a-long tomorrow, Tuesday September 15. This is a fairly short miniseres so we should have it wrapped up by the end of … Continue reading Classic Comic Book Read-a-long – Silver Surfer Parable
The Comic Strip Club (Mon 9/14/2020)
30 Day Book Challenge Day 14: Your Favorite Fantasy Series
Oh, what a frustrating question this one is. I grew up on Dungeons & Dragons so I’ve read a lot of those early novels when the first Weis & Hickman books arrived and so forth. I spent years reading Myth books … Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge Day 14: Your Favorite Fantasy Series
