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So I wrote about this the other day, because it’s partly an ad for the new Call of Duty. Like pretty much everything, the more you learn, the less clear-cut it seems, and I want to say simply that you have three choices when it comes to waging contemporary war. 1) Conscription. Draft young men…
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Been meaning to post this for a bit: The astonishing J.H. Williams III’s most beautiful 2-page spread yet from the unbeatable “Sandman: Overture.” Both he and the great Neil Gaiman are really at the top of their respective forms on this one and it’s such a treat to read something with so many characters I’ve…
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My wonderful friend Isaac passed this quiz along to me; I am going to try to find three people with blogs to pass it along to, and will link to their responses at the bottom. You can (and ought to) read Isaac here. He’s a director of note and writes very good, thoughtful cultural criticism…
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At the risk of starting a whole thing, I was watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine the other day and I realized I was seeing something I’d never seen on television before and it made me really, really sad. I’ll tell you about the episode—it’s the B-plot to S01E07, “48 Hours.” Terry Crews’ character, Terry (I get it!)…
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Banksy installation under the High Line. Basically it’s a gallery exhibition with two large paintings in it, on public property, with yellow caution tape guarded by huge guys in uniforms who only let in a few people at a time. The paintings are colorful anti-authoritarian little numbers. Again: Banksy has stationed guards on public property…
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brianmichaelbendis: X-Villains by Dave Johnson This is great.
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jillthompson: mothgirlwings: Eyvind Earle concept art for Walt Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty” (1959) Worshipping this! WOW. WOW and WOW again.
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Man, Chris Weston is killer. Here’s one of his great, scary covers to “Indigo Prime.”
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Here, for no good reason, is a gorgeous page from Kevin O’Neill’s interiors to “Nemo: Heart of Ice,” a fabulous 56-page (well, 48 and one of Alan Moore’s borderline unreadable short stories) “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” adventure. Actually the short story was better than usual this time. This is the best serial comic being published…
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By SAM THIELMAN *****The Glass Menagerie at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Tennessee Williams. Directed by John Tiffany. Set and costumes by Bob Crowley. Starring Zachary Quinto, Cherry Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith. ***** One of the glorious problems that keeps a play from a second life as a book of…
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