comic books
My Hero: Guided View
Took a few years, but the tech finally caught up to My Hero‘s unusualness: I didn’t get the frame quite perfect for the recording. Looks great on a Fire, though (this is through a browser).
Best of 2018
wow, THIS in Drafts as well. looks like it’s what I meant to by my Best of 2018, but then forgot I’d started it, so did it all over. Novel: The Outsider NF: Atlas of a Lost World, Close Encounters with Humankind, The Neanderthals Rediscovered Non-Horror Movie: The Rider Slasher: The Strangers: Prey at Night,
Best Reads from Lately
Excerpts from AI-Written Rom-Coms That Prove Human Writers Are Obsolete – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.science.org/content/article/modern-humans-and-neanderthals-may-have-overlapped-shared-culture-western-europe https://rapozacomics.carbonmade.com/projects/5313679 https://willchristopherbaer.substack.com/p/move-37 300,000-year-old snapshot: Oldest human footprints from Germany found Network of ancient Maya cities reveals well-organized civilization – The Washington Post Image Comics ditches Diamond for Lunar to get its comics into comic shops after a 25+ year relationship
Best of my February 2023
(was on tour for a couple weeks this short-short month, so was imbibing media at a much slower rate . . . )
Best Reads from Lately
Humans have been wearing bear skins for at least 300,000 years – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News Danny DeVito Is A Revered Comedy Legend, But It’s Past Time For Him To Be Acknowledged As A Vibrant, Important Director | Decider https://www.emcarroll.com/comics/meat/ https://www.barrelhousemag.com/onlinelit/2017/10/4/final-girl-slumber-party Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white | Madison365 Amateur archaeologist uncovers ice
So many book links (lists, reviews, etc)
Wish I could embed them all, but some of them are going to be links, I’d guess: http://litlists.blogspot.com/2022/09/ten-quietly-effective-suspense-novels.html Western Horror – Mystery and Suspense Magazine October & November Reads – Bookshop.org https://www.ghoulsmagazine.com/articles/4-must-read-horror-books-for-slasher-film-fans https://www.polygon.com/2022/9/9/23341203/new-comics-2022-fall-preview https://previewsworld.com/Article/264444-Start-Here-Five-New-Comics-for-October-5 https://www.whichbook.net/book/12706/The-Only-Good-Indians-Stephen-Graham-Jones/ https://justaword.fr/un-bon-indien-est-un-indien-mort-465314f8dc4e https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/435387/the-babysitter-lives-review-a-fun-and-scary-reinvention-of-familiar-horrors/ https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Babysitter-Lives-Jones-Stephen-Graham/pid=9768294?_zs=Q1UiW1&_zl=Hm3b8 https://ryanthomaslabee.com/blog/the-babysitter-lives-a-review
Best of 2021
Novel Plural. Because: two is always better. And, both of these are doorstoppers, too. Doorstoppers I didn’t want to go over, whose labyrinths I’m still plunging through, faster and faster: Poetry It came out in 2020, but I only read it in January or so of 2021. Stuck with me all year. And I’ll probably
All over the place linkage
Which—man. I should have worded that differently. Feel like Pauly Shore, now. Anyway: Cool lists and reviews for: Night of the Mannequins Memorial Ride The Only Good Indians Mapping the Interior The Only Good Indians again More Memorial Ride Not for Nothing And, a video review that doesn’t embed nicely in bullet-point lists: And of