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Holy Smokes! My graphic novels have arrived. What a nice surprise, two weeks waiting..
Article source: http://thethinkpot.co.uk/blog/2011/01/19/royal-rtards/
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There are eight-to-ten million parcels undelivered by Royal Mail. This backlog is blamed on the Siberian Winter Britain just experienced for a couple of weeks at Christmas. Okay. But the stuff has long gone, and despite an estimated 13-thousand extra staff, I’m no better in getting my parcels soon!
It’s not Amazon.
My two “booksellers” emailed me despatch notes, sent on the 8th of January. If I haven’t had delivery by the 13th I am to contact them. Well, what can I do? I know – I COULD volunteer to help out …
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What is it with Amazon at the moment? I order two graphic novels on January 6th, they’ve been despatched and I’m STILL waiting a week later! At this rate I’ll be buying a random one to fill in the time before I (hopefully) receive them at last. It’s a cruel world, it truly is..!
Article source: http://thethinkpot.co.uk/blog/2011/01/15/amazon-hello/
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I’m hoping to start a podcast discussion series about graphic novels, comics and reading in general. With trusty stalwart Alan – of “Neverwhere” and “Dead End Forum” – it should be interesting. Now that I have culled my collection of books I discover a whole new world of material I had forgotten. Strangely, both of us had become pretty bored with fiction in our respective genres.
Over the coming weeks I hope to get us to chat about where it started for us, why we left it and what is so …
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If you are familiar with the harrowing first few minutes of the “X-Men” movie, then “X-men: Magneto Testament” will be something of an extension to the early life of Magneto. A collected work comprising a five-comic series, “X-Men: Magneto Testament” traces the young journey of Max Eisenhardt and his Jewish family during the Holocaust.
Writer Greg Pak (“Robot Stories” and “Planet Hulk”) does an amazing job of laying out the rise of Nazi occupation across Europe. Max’s uncle – Erich – becomes something of a fighter which foreshadows the changing of …
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After a personally affecting and tragic 2009/early 2010, I realise that 2010 has started a good trend for me. I want to highlight here and reflect upon what’s been good and why – perhaps so I can trace the even better stuff in 2011.
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I have been indirectly involved with the DeadEnd Movie Forum (and done a podcast), co-founded and left a COD4 clan, set up this and two other websites (my portfolio and latest, antiquity); I’ve been busy creating web-banners for the expansion of DEMF, the City of Blackbridge …
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The two gorgeous looking graphic novels I bought last Saturday – all shrink-wrapped – are daring me to open them and start reading.
But I won’t. I mustn’t.
I want to build the anticipation of actually getting absorbed in story again and so I have to confine them under wraps – a Christmas morning “surprise” from myself for myself.
Having read “Marvel 1602″ in two days along with the excellent “Superman: Red Son” I’m kind’ve hooked. Expect me to start selling body organs to continue this slowly building addiction – not neccessarily my …
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Now, if the concept of laughing at folks who can do unusual things with flatulence, bodily waste and knob gags doesn’t float your boat – well, “Jackass 3D” is not for you. However, if – like me – you know of the drunken moments of Johnny Knoxville, the blood-curdling abuses of Steve-O and the self-abuses of Chris Pontius then you’re in good company!
“Jackass 3D” – directed by Jeff Tremaine – breathes life into the anarchic franchise, with some truly original “skits” and castmember assaults. The beginning – with self-confessed …
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I like adventure-thrillers, but there’s not enough of a “section” in Waterstones. If I liked crime-thrillers I’d be spoilt for choice, but I don’t. That leaves me with an investigation into the graphic novel, because I want to know what I’m going to be entertained by and to what extent: fiction is something that has to be explored, it’s a gamble – with the author being the outright winner each time!
I decided to take the step into the world of the graphic novel. The only real place to go was …
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Article source: http://thethinkpot.co.uk/blog/2010/10/16/think-ink/
