The Comic Strip Club (Sat 10/19/2019)
Peanuts Pigskin Saturday Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Sat 10/19/2019)
Category: Books
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Travelogia on the Road: Western Wastes
In the summer 2012, I helped a close friend (who was also named Sam) move from Pasadena, California to Atlanta, Georgia. Instead of taking a normal route along Interstate 10, Sam, drawn in by the search for a rare German … Continue reading Travelogia on the Road: Western Wastes
The Comic Strip Club (Fri 10/18/2019)
Shitter’s Full Friday rolls on Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Fri 10/18/2019)
Comic Book Canon: The Sandman. Issues 54-56
Welcome to a series that I am continuing. I am going to go through Neil Gaiman’s now-classic series The Sandman Issue # 54 Title: The Golden Boy Artist: Bryan Talbot & Mark Buckingham (framing story) Michael Allred (main story) … Continue reading Comic Book Canon: The Sandman. Issues 54-56
The Comic Strip Club (Thur 10/17/2019)
What a Crock! Shitter’s full latrine edition Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Thur 10/17/2019)
Weekly Comics Thread 16-OCT-2019
Here’s the place to talk about the comics you picked up this week, and anything else you might be reading! Not sure what’s out? Check out the handy dandy ComicList! Don’t forget to step on over to the Comic Book Chat, hosted … Continue reading Weekly Comics Thread 16-OCT-2019
The Comic Strip Club (Wed 10/16/2019)
Shitter’s Full! I got dem old outhouse blues again Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Wed 10/16/2019)
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: self-help. It can be a touchy subject, easily dismissed or downright reviled. … Continue reading The Book Nook
The Comic Strip Club (Tue 10/15/2019)
Shitter’s Full! Bears in the woods edition Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Tue 10/15/2019)
Paperback Punk
One of my favorite past times is haunting used bookstores, looking for out-of-print and forgotten classics. My taste in literature tends to run toward fantasy, science-fiction, and horror, and I find modern novels too often weighed down by bloat and … Continue reading Paperback Punk
The Comic Strip Club (Mon 10/14/2019)
Shitter’s Full! at the Strip Club Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Mon 10/14/2019)
The Comic Strip Club (Sun 10/13/2019)
Throwback Snoopy Sunday Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Sun 10/13/2019)
The Comic Strip Club (Sat 10/12/2019)
We leave Leaf Week at the Strip Club Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Sat 10/12/2019)
Let’s Read Yahoo! Internet Life, February 2001!
Yahoo! Internet Life, a magazine that often reads a lot like an annotated map to a much smaller (and yet somehow bigger) Internet in a time that never was, ran from 1995 to 2002. As the Internet search engine pioneer … Continue reading Let’s Read Yahoo! Internet Life, February 2001!
The Comic Strip Club (Fri 10/11/2019)
Leaf Blower Friday Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Fri 10/11/2019)
Comic Book Canon: The Sandman. Issues 50-53
Welcome to a series that I am continuing. I am going to go through Neil Gaiman’s now-classic series The Sandman Issue # 50 Title: Ramadan Artist: P. Craig Russell Collected in: Fables and Reflections Plot: Caliph Haroun Al Raschid, King … Continue reading Comic Book Canon: The Sandman. Issues 50-53
Comic Book Review – Contagion #1
So far in the month of October, we have seen New York City under siege by the undead in Vampire State Building. The same week, we see a threat against New York City in the Marvel Universe in Contagion #1 … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Contagion #1
The Comic Strip Club (Thur 10/10/2019)
Raking leaves with Zits Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Thur 10/10/2019)
Weekly Comics Thread 09-OCT-2019
Here’s the place to talk about the comics you picked up this week, and anything else you might be reading! Not sure what’s out? Check out the handy dandy ComicList! Don’t forget to step on over to the Comic Book Chat, hosted … Continue reading Weekly Comics Thread 09-OCT-2019
Comic Book Chat – Favorite Comic Book Monster
Good morning and welcome to Comic Book Chat! Today’s Discussion – Favorite Comic Book Monster From the radioactive monsters of the 1950s and 1960s to the Legion of Monsters in the 1970s to Swamp Thing in the 1980s and the … Continue reading Comic Book Chat – Favorite Comic Book Monster
The Comic Strip Club (Wed 10/9/2019)
Raking leaves week continues at the Keane Kompound Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Wed 10/9/2019)
