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Planet of the Marxists

Posted on Monday, 2002 February 11 by Anton

Am I the last to see it? A t-shirt bearing the familiar iconic portrait of Che Guevara – you know, beret with a star – except that the face is from Planet of the Apes.

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you know my name, look up the number

Posted on Sunday, 2002 February 10 by Anton

Peeve: Redundantly numbered lists, such as this list of 134 worst movies, numbered in alphabetical order from 1 to 102. The median date of the champion turkeys, by the way, is 1988. Amazing. Update (December 2003): They took the numbers … Continue reading →

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are you threatening me?

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 07 by Anton

Sinfest borrows a riff from Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

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Grendel

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 07 by Anton

Today I bought Devil’s Legacy, a reprint of my then favorite of Matt Wagner’s Grendel stories. The new color job and slick paper make the Pander Bros artwork even more hard-edged and vivid, unless my memory (of 1986) is what’s … Continue reading →

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