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Nick Abadzis. Laika.

Last year I read a very short and monumentally affecting novel called Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles by Jeanette Winterson. Its reworking of the Atlas/Heracles myth was thoroughly modern and true to the source materials, but what I found most moving was the final passage where Atlas, long forgotten by humankind and, ( Read more... )

I was bound and determined to finish reading the three foot tall stack of comics I've been stockpiling since August before I go back to work tomorrow and I have finished...and learned something. The very low quality of many of the books that we buy is far more evident when series are read 3-5 books at a time...we are buying a lot of sh*t. To whit:

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Comics Reporter has a fascinating story today about the 50 things that every great comic collection needs to have. I'm pleased that we've got at least 20 of them already. In particular, I was pleased to see the recommendation to have some Osamu Tezuka. Buddha is awesome! We need to get more of them.

Read. Discuss.

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