if they’re gonna charge you this much you should at least get your dad back at the end
So sorry, Matt.
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Monday Morning Secret Wars 11: Stumped
Sigh. I’m way behind. It’s ridiculously frustrating to open my iPad and count a ton of Secret Wars comics that I’ve read and haven’t reviewed, and then realize that another ton of Secret Wars comics that I’m still reading and haven’t come close to forming an opinion on. I’m stuck. The purpose of reviewing all these books (and committing to reviewing all these books) was to force myself into the…
Monday Morning Secret Wars: Another Timeout
Need another day to gather my thoughts. See you tomorrow!
Monday Morning Secret Wars 10:
All right, let’s get a couple of review out there! (It’s more fun when I’m behind, right? Right?) Warning: I think I gave out more Thumbs Down than normal. Age of Ultron vs. Marvel Zombies #1 I suspect that when picking up his Secret Wars assignments, Robinson said to Marvel management. “You know, I’m kind of tired of doing all the Golden Age stuff I’m known for. I need a change. Can you give me…
Monday Morning Secret Wars Rain Delay
I’ll have the reviews up tomorrow, as life has intervened. I apologize for the delay. Go read something else on the internet for the next 24 hours, okay? Thanks.
IN CASE YOU HAVENT HEARD YET
!!!!! MUST READ !!!!!!
Dominican Republic to be ‘Socially Cleaned’ of all Hatians/Dark Skinned Dominicans in two days
In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism.
At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans:
According to the decision, Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent, including many who have had no personal connection with Haiti for several generations.
Dominican Republic has always had a longstanding hatred towards Haiti for years but what they’re doing is literally taking anyone who’s family lineage cannot be traced back to 1929, and putting them on a one-way bus back to Haiti, whether they were born in the DR or not. They don’t care.
The US State Department has denounced the Dominican government for this plan, and pointed out that it is a gross violation of human rights according to the U.N. charter.
Below are 5 things you need to know about what is happening in the Dominican Republic:
- The DR government has revoked the citizenship of more than 100,000 Dominicans born in the country of Haitian parents.
- Many of the Dominican-born Haitians facing the looming threat of deportation have never visited Haiti or know anyone there.
- The criteria the government will use in deciding who is to be bussed out of the country is “dark-skinned Dominicans with Haitian facial features.”
- The DR government claims to have established a legalization process for Dominican-Haitians wishing to remain in the country, but the system is close-to-impossible, according to sources on the ground.
- Even though currently the deportation of Dominic-Haitians persists as only a possibility, all evidence points to it happening.
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Monday Morning Secret Wars 9: Weirdworld is Awesome, and So Is Marguerite Bennett
X-Men ’92 #1 and #2 (Infinite Comics version): I am 44. In 1992, I was 21 and a member of Generation X. Here is a partial list of things that people alive in 1992 need to apologize to future generations for: MTV’s Kennedy. Billy Ray Cyrus. (Miley’s okay, but Billy Ray is a sin against music.) Mad About You. Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Overwritten X-Men comics. You can argue the first four- I was…
Monday Morning Secret Wars 8: It’s All-New, All-Different
1602: Witch Hunter Angela That’s Angela killing Wolverine with a stick. I haven’t read the Marvel 1602 series in a number of years, so I cannot say whether or not this book is consistent with that world. But I can say that this book stars famous playwrights Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare,. That has to mean something, right? This is basically an X-Men book in disguise.…
CUNNING PLANS is an electronic book containing the text of most of the talks I have given over the last few years.
This is the link to find it on Amazon in the UK.
And this is the link to find it on Amazon in the US.
It should also be in your country’s Amazon store, should you be blessed enough to not live in the UK or US.
For other devices, it’s available at Smashwords.
We’re still rolling this out, testing and probably failing as we go, so bear with it. And, to address the immediate FAQs – no, it’s not in physical print, we don’t know if it ever will be, and no, it doesn’t affect NORMAL (which is delayed from the original plans because original plans never survive contact with the outside world) or the non-fiction book at FSG, who have been made well aware of my plans for electronic publication and warmly support them.
ROCK AND ROLL FRIDAYS: Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh (Also- Library Stuff!)
Yeah, it’s not really rock and roll, but this is my blog, and I probably owe Slick Rick an apology for Tuesday’s post, so… Look at how much the crowd is INTO this jam. Also: The New Jersey Library Association is asking for your help. NJ libraries have seen a continuing reduction of state per capita aid. The average…
Monday Morning Secret Wars 7: Come and get me, you mugs!
Infinity Gauntlet #1 Possible marketing line: “This ain’t your dad’s Infinity Gauntlet!” And it’s not. It’s a genre mixup, with bits from The Walking Dead, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, and The Last Starfighter mixed in. Ron Lim is nowhere to be found, and Jim Starlin isn’t walking through that door anytime soon. He’s too busy working on his Thanos novel… I enjoyed the story here, expertly…
Monday Morning Secret Wars 6: OK, it’s Tuesday, sue me.
I am committed to catching up on all the Secret Wars books this week. I should be committed for thinking this is a rational thing to do, but hey, Horton said it best- “‘I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!” Yeah, yeah, tell it to your audience, Dumbo. Amazing Spider-man: Renew Your Vows #1 Marriage-related passive-aggressiveness! Here’s my $4,…
Monday Morning Secret Wars 5: The Destruction of the Fantastic Four
Secret Wars 3 is a really frustrating book, a book left me wanting to punch the entire enterprise in the face, flush it all down the toilet, and go blog about something else. But a promise is a promise. And if you’re like me, a lifelong Fantastic Four fan, you just can’t ignore Secret Wars and the effects on the Marvel Universe’s First Family, even if they twist my stomach in knots. Mind you, I’m…
Moonlight Syndrome (PS1 1997)
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