Working Title: The Pearl of Great Price by Cactus Eater Bear What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (quote from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, CA. 1600) We left the city to try our hand at self-sufficiency, or at least to have a…
Comic Book Continuity, Timelines, and Verisimilitude
Post 01 Post 02 Post 03 Post 04 Post 05 Post 06 NOTE: While I didn’t mention it at the beginning of my first post, I want to make something clear about my posts on comic books: I do not strive to be either academically rigorous nor authoritative in my analysis. Other authors have spent a great deal of time…
“Fireworks” by Jeff Cooper – Book Review
by 303Bookworm Colonel Jeff Cooper was an unusual man. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps during WWII. After hostilities with Japan ceased, he signed on with the CIA and took the fight to communism in a variety of small, violent countries. He’s best known for his passionate advocacy for…
“You added way too much garlic” Roasted Chicken Liver Paté
by Modestus Makes about 400ml aka enough for 2 solid sandwiches or 1 potluck party 3 Bulbs Garlic 2 Medium Shallots 1lb Chicken Livers a fat of choice, for roasting 4tbl unsalted butter, cut into cubes ~1/4c heavy whipping cream 1tsp brandy salt spices Quick Directions: 1. Roast garlic and shallots for about 1 hour…
Slaughtering a Sacred Cow
by Ruler of the Doughnuts We all have our sacred cows. There are things in life that we think are so foundationally important that we can’t imagine a world without them. Sometimes these things are just cows, sometimes they are sacred, but we can make either cows or sacred things…
Thoughts on Comic Book History
What is a “Comic Book”?
What are comic books, or at least, what are US comic books? In the parlance of the day (the mid- to late-1930s), a comic book was a book that contained comic strip reprints, typically the Sunday funnies of popular strips (if they could get the reprint rights), short stories of adventure and humor, and some comic stories that were written and drawn by in-house staffers.
This was obviously crafted by DC Comics just before Action Comics #1 was published, right?
Yeah, no.