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Pig-Pen Monday Spotlight “Pig-Pen” is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. Whilst amiable, he is a young boy who is, except on rare occasions, extremely dirty and attracts a permanent cloud of dust and bugs. … Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Mon 10/21/2019)
Snoopy Sunday Roundup Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Sun 10/20/2019)
Peanuts Pigskin Saturday Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Sat 10/19/2019)
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
Shitter’s Full Friday rolls on Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Fri 10/18/2019)
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
What a Crock! Shitter’s full latrine edition Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Thur 10/17/2019)
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
Shitter’s Full! I got dem old outhouse blues again Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Wed 10/16/2019)
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
Shitter’s Full! Bears in the woods edition Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Tue 10/15/2019)
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
Shitter’s Full! at the Strip Club Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Mon 10/14/2019)
Throwback Snoopy Sunday Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Sun 10/13/2019)
We leave Leaf Week at the Strip Club Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Sat 10/12/2019)
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!
Leaf Blower Friday Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Fri 10/11/2019)
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
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
Raking leaves with Zits Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Thur 10/10/2019)
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
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