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tintin had bad hormones

January 2, 2005

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Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602 is out in trade paperback (or at least Volume 1 is). This is Gaiman’s retelling of the marvel comics universe 400 years back. I missed this series when it was out in comics because I have massive unresolved guilt about buying comics and never reading them (I still have huge stacks [...]

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I just finished reading Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude. It was a good book, although not quite what I expected. I had been led to believe it was a book about comic books, something like the Marvel or silver age equivalent of Michael Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay (which if you haven’t read you should run [...]

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Spider-Man Quiz

July 1, 2004

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Yeesh. I never even really read Spider-Man (I was an X-Men fan) and I still got 80% of the questions on this quiz right. Of course I suspect that when you hang out in comics stores your entire life you just sort of pick up Spidey stuff whether you want to or not.

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Because this seems to be a week of exposing to the world exactly how incredibly nerdly I actually am, today I will forward links to the The Marvel Directory and the Unofficial Who’s Who in the DC Universe. Note the inherent superiority in design of the Marvel directory, thus reflecting the superiority of the Marvel [...]

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