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B-Fest next week….

It feels silly to say this, considering how inactive I've been, but if I seem even more out of touch than usual for the next, oh, ten days or so, it's because it's time to get ready for B-Fest. I've waited way too long to get started, so my 'hospitality' is going to be…
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Monster of the Day #623
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Monster of the Day #623

No surprise after yesterday, I guess. Although I had seen, way back in the day, the Doctor Who movies when I was a tyke, my sorta of first exposure to the Doctor was catching--sadly, right before they ended showing it--the John Pertwee run on our local PBS channel. Several years later they started showing…
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B-Fest 2013 Line-Up posted….
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B-Fest 2013 Line-Up posted….

Here. Please, no spoilers. If you want to give a general thumbs up or down, please do. However, many in my party go 'stud,' not knowing the schedule, so please avoid even hints about the specific titles. However, feel free to start a thread in the Forum for those who wish to discuss the…
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Four Color Fridays: The Hulk (Tales to Astonish #81)
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Four Color Fridays: The Hulk (Tales to Astonish #81)

Obviously one of the tricks of writing good superhero comics is to create credible adversaries. Although it's always fun to see someone fight out of his weight class, for the most part you want heroes to fight someone roughly equivalent to them. If you're a normal human who relies on his fists, wits and…
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Monster of the Day #621
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Monster of the Day #621

As I noted yesterday, I've run out of Jack the Giant Killer pictures. So let's go from a Jim Danforth kidde pic to one that went in a rather different direction. This and The Stewardesses (in 3-D!) remain the only 'adult' movies I've seen in a  theater, and both of those would probably be…
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Monster of the Day #620
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Monster of the Day #620

And so ends, sadly, our look at Jack the Giant Killer. What a high note, though! The Sea Dragon is fabulous. So goofy and so cool at the same time.
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