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Onion AV Club on Daredevil Noir
“The Marvel Noir line has proven an unexpected hit for the company. Sticking classic superheroes in out-of-continuity miniseries saturated with the lowlife atmosphere and doomstruck moral shadings of 1940s noir novels and films was a bizarre idea, but somehow it struck just the right chord with fans, who ate up Spider-Man Noir and X-Men Noir.…
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Baltimore Reading at Metro Gallery May 15th
Smartish Pace/Barrelhouse Release PartyMay 15th, 2009 8:00pm-1:00amLOCATION: Metro Gallery, 1700 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201 (1 block north of Penn Station)COST: $10 (includes magazine) From the Smartish Pace web site: Readings by Matt Anserello, Lucy Biederman, Maggie Glover, Reginald Harris, Alex Irvine, Aaron Poochigian and Mark Wisniewski. Readings from 8:15 PM to 9:15 PM…
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The Next Thing You Bookmark
Should be the World Digital Library. Just sayin’. L worked on some of the translations of the French-language items, and this is going to be a great resource. Also a time-sink without peer. Pictured: a German woodcut of Aesop’s Fables.
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Daredevil Noir #3 Solicit and #4 Cover
“LIAR’S POKER,” PART 3 The Bull’s-Eye Killer is on the loose in Hell’s Kitchen, and every corpse draws Daredevil deeper into the brewing war between Wilson Fisk and Orville Halloran, the Man Who Would Be Kingpin. Guided by the unerring accuracy of his senses, Daredevil plunges toward a confrontation with Halloran — and a devastating…
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Whole Lotta Madame Bovary
Wow. 4500 pages? Transcribed by a team including teenagers and an oil prospector? And no smut? Anyone searching the new site for “naughty bits” scissored by the publishers will probably be disappointed. Although Flaubert was furious that his text was altered to try to avoid a trial, the censored passages are hardly more explicit than…
Crooked House Fictions 