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the not so common heritage

When allusions whoosh by to movies that I never saw, like these, I worry a bit less about homogenization of culture. While I’m up: why do some -ize verbs like baptize have nouns in -ism, while others take -ization (half … Continue reading

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webtoons

White House In Orbit is a charmingly retro secret-agents strip by Reinder Dijkhuis and Geir Strøm, or perhaps the other way around.

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are you threatening me?

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

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Grendel

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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