Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon
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The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought...
Spatial Perspectives: Essays on Literature and Architecture
Terri Mullholland and Nicole Sierra
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This interdisciplinary collection explores the dynamic relationship between literature and...
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh and Robert Murray Davis
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Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust...
POW!
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In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Van, a benign old monk listens to a...
Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer
Sylvie Rancourt and Helge Daschler
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In 1980, Sylvie Rancourt and her boyfriend moved to Montreal from rural Northern Quebec. With...
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture
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Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted...
Kirk Bage (1775 KP) rated Venom (2018) in Movies
Feb 25, 2021
Joe Goodhart (27 KP) rated Fables: Volume 1: Legends in Exile in Books
Nov 30, 2020
So, prior to writing this review, I wanted to peruse the reviews on here, to see what others said, reducing the risk of writing something already said. What I found were a number of 1-Star reviews, something I found to be quite surprising!
Not every comic (or book, for that matter) will necessarily start with an amazing first arc. It may be good, yes, but it could also be polished in spots. However, despite little things that could be better, the overall content should be seen as good enough to warrant reading the second story arc.
That is how I felt at the conclusion of this first volume, a mystery of sorts that also served to introduce us to a number of characters who go on to appear as series regulars. Sure, the dialogue was not perfect (really? Comparing it to Gaiman's SANDMAN? Like trying to compare RICK & MORTY to THE LAST UNICORN!), but I can safely say that the series matures, like a well-aged wine, and later issues are much, much better.
Long and short: it's an urban fantasy with the fables we grew up with. Go in without an judgments or comparisons, and you might be pleasantly surprised. Jus' sayin'..
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Creepshow (1982) in Movies
Sep 27, 2019
The Plot: A compendium of five short but terrifying tales contained within a single full-length feature, this film conjures scares from traditional bogeymen and portents of doom. In one story, a monster escapes from its holding cell. Another focuses on a husband (Leslie Nielsen) with a creative way of getting back at his cheating wife. Other stories concern a rural man (Stephen King) and a visitor from outer space, and a homeowner (E.G. Marshall) with huge bug problems and a boozing corpse.
The film consists of five short stories: "Father's Day", "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill", "Something to Tide You Over", "The Crate" and "They're Creeping Up on You!" Two of these stories were adapted from King's short stories, with the film bookended by prologue and epilogue scenes featuring a young boy named Billy (played by King's son, Joe), who is punished by his father for reading horror comics.
The film was adapted into an actual comic book of the same name soon after the film's release, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, (of Heavy Metal and Warren magazines fame), an artist fittingly influenced by the 1950s E.C. Comics.
It is a very great movie and i would highly reccordmend it.
The Last Titan
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On the run from the government and a local gangster, Daniel White thought things could not get any...