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STAR TREK: GOLD KEY ARCHIVES: VOL. 4 – graphic novel
STAR TREK WEEK Featuring issue numbers 19-24 we continue to look at the Gold Key Star Trek comics collection. The stories have gotten better – to the point where some of these stories could have been filmed episodes (and some of them feel like rip-offs of episodes). The art is still stunning, but often very Continue reading
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STAR TREK: GOLD KEY ARCHIVES: VOLUME 3 – graphic novel
STAR TREK WEEK Star Trek. Comics. An absolute winner, right? Well… Gold Key Comics made the early gamble and purchased the rights to publish a comic book series based on the then new television program, Star Trek. The artists and writers during the first year of publication had actually never seen an episode of the Continue reading
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STAR TREK: GOLD KEY ARCHIVES: VOLUME 2 – graphic novel
STAR TREK WEEK There isn’t much to say about this book. This is a collection of the Star Trek comics that were initially published in the early 1970’s by Gold Key Comics. The art is mostly pretty bad with the occasional panel looking like one of the TV show characters (usually when the panel was Continue reading
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STAR TREK 1 – James Blish
STAR TREK WEEK I first read this book in the mid-to-late 1970’s. I was an early Trekkie. Youngsters today forget that there was no Netflix or Hulu or DVRs and we watched our favorite shows when they were being broadcast, and shows like Star Trek you could only see if your local station purchased the Continue reading
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STAR TREK: GOLD KEY ARCHIVES VOL. 1 – graphic novel
I became a Star Trek fan in the early 1970’s (just after the regular broadcasts ended) and searched for anything Star Trek that I could get my hands on. The Gold Key Star Trek comics were one of the only ways for a teen to keep the Star Trek adventures alive back then. I’d heard that Continue reading
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UFO-1: FLESH HUNTERS – Robert Miall
THROWBACK THURSDAY – REVIEWING A BOOK FROM MY SHELF Guilty pleasure time! As a latch-key teen in the 1970’s, I grew up watching a good deal of television. My favorite was Star Trek, but when I got wind of a new sci-fi show coming out of Great Britain and that one of my local stations Continue reading
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HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS
What is it about He-Man and the Masters of the Universe that it manages to have a lasting appeal? I was not aware that there had been a newspaper comic strip (daily and Sunday). 1,674 days worth of comic strips. So when I saw that Dark Horse gathered as many of these strips as possible Continue reading
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FRAMING FAN FICTION – Kristina Busse
I have a tremendous interest in fandom and fan interests having been one of the early participants in fandom (mid-1970’s). I’ve been interested in other books published by the University of Iowa that have been about fandom and fan interests, and those that I’ve read have been quite interesting. Unfortunately I can’t say that about Continue reading
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WILLFUL CHILD – Steven Erikson
I requested this book four years ago and over time I’ve forgotten what it might have been about so I began to read this ‘blind’. Lately I’ve also been interested in reading some humorous fiction, so imagine my delight to begin reading and discovering that this isn’t just a humorous story, it’s a parody that Continue reading
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THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER – Harlan Ellison
If you don’t know Harlan Ellison then you should correct that immediately by going out and reading some of his work. He’s an under-recognized, under-appreciated author – though certainly not for a lack of trying, as Harlan was often pretty vocal about his talent. One of Ellison’s biggest claim to fame was for writing the Continue reading
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Four Longmire novels by Craig Johnson
Having watched the Longmire series on Netflix, and awaiting the final season, I went back to the original books and found them much more interesting and delightful than the television series (which I enjoy). For my daily commute I’ve been listening to the books on CD. The narration by George Guidall is incredibly spot on and Continue reading
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MY LUCKY LIFE – Dick Van Dyke
There aren’t very many performers/actors that I admire as much as I do Dick Van Dyke. I grew up watching this man. On television it was The Dick Van Dyke Show and then The New Dick Van Dyke Show. On the big screen it was Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. His talent, to Continue reading
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