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We went up the island reverse-trick-or-treating with a bag of juice boxes, granola bars, paperback books and and pop tarts this morning. Several places were giving away or selling cheaply bread, produce, and anything else that would spoil. A camping goods store was giving away energy bars and fruit snacks, advertising loudly that they were…
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Commuting on foot by way of the Brooklyn Bridge is exactly like commuting by bus or car, except that it makes your feet hurt. Huge men still try to push my tiny wife out of the way, cyclists still get close enough to see if you have something in your teeth, and tourists still walk…
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Canal Street. The state of the ethnic neighborhoods is sad and frightening. Some are totally abandoned—Chinatown’s stores are staffed in part by contingents from several Queens neighborhoods, so this was not a day to buy a knockoff designer purse or go on a dim sum bender. It was, however, a day to buy stolen goods—outside…
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Balthazar is one of the best and most expensive bakeries in the city. Rather than let the bread spoil, the bakers sold their wares on the street for two, three, or four dollars instead of eight, fifteen, or twenty-five. I bought an apple galette. Freezing cold and at least several hours old, it was still…
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Clive Staples “C.S.” Lewis, a perfectly good children’s novelist and passable sci-fi author, has been adopted by evangelicals as the architect of contemporary evangelism in a way that is not merely wrongheaded and foolish but very harmful. “Mere Christianity” is a terrible book, poorly argued, badly written, and borderline blasphemous (seriously, Christianity is the next…
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I like to post larger images than this, but this was the best Melinda Gebbie I could find that I feel comfortable posting—she did some beautiful work on Lost Girls with her husband Alan Moore (far superior to his, frankly), but that stuff is pretty blue and the explicit nature of the subject matter distracts from…
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Various Godzillae, courtesy of Art Adams
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A beautiful page from Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham’s marvelous run on “Miracleman,” my all-time favorite comic book. The first Gaiman arc was a series of interlocking short stories set in the world posited by Moore at the end of his glorious run, and it’s even better. This is arguably the best of those stories,…
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Here’s a fabulous two-page spread from the <em>Daredevil</em> annual in that story, in fact—Davis crams pretty much every major story in the DD canon into this gorgeous illustration of the character’s life flashing before his eyes as he slips off a fire escape. Highly recommended reading.
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A lovely Kevin Nowlan page from his currently running Man-Thing story, based on Steve Gerber’s last script for the character and tying back into an old Gerber story. I’ll be picking this one up in trade, believe me. Marvel is really putting out some good work these days—I bought a Wolverine comic for the first…
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