26 July 2014

Kickstarting Dragons

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April Brown and colleagues from an online comics magazine called Off Registration have prepared a comics adaptation of E. Nesbit’s The Bo...
20 July 2014

A Touch of Blue

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When DC launched its “New 52” continuity, it redesigned almost all its heroes’ costumes. Nightwing’s new outfit replaced the light blue stri...
18 July 2014

OIP Derangement Syndrome in Crises

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Did the shooting down of a passenger jet over breakaway eastern Ukraine this week prompt America’s right-wing pundits to rise above OIP Dera...
15 July 2014

Baum’s Collaborators, Real and Fictional

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The Wild Things gang are sharing material they couldn’t include in their new book on their blog , including this article about the part...
14 July 2014

Weekly Robin Extra: Grayson Intelligence

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On Saturday I attended a signing by Grayson co-writer Tom King at Friendly Neighborhood Comics , and enjoyed chatting with him about his ...
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13 July 2014

Won Over by Grayson, #1

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I was dubious about the premise of the Grayson comic book until I saw the preview pages. When DC first announced that Dick Grayson woul...
01 July 2014

Beyond Their Comprehension

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From Tim Grove’s A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History (University of Nebraska Press, 2014): During my time at...
03 June 2014

Google’s Scalawagons

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Various forms of The Wizard of Oz are so famous that it’s common to see allusions to that story. But The Scalawagons of Oz , written and ...
01 June 2014

A “Foolhardy Boy Companion” Named Robin

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From Stuart Kelly’s review of Nick Harkaway’s “superhero novel” Tigerman in this weekend’s Guardian : In the suspension of internation...
31 May 2014

The Relationship of Andersen and Dickens

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From Suzi Feay’s review of Hans Christian Andersen: European Witness in this weekend’s Guardian : The relationship with Dickens was fra...