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Clash of the Comic Greats

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Cora

It’s the clash of the comic greats of the 1980s: Alan Moore takes on Frank Miller over Frank Miller’s dismissal of the Occupy movement as “louts, rapists and thieves”. I don’t want to dignify Miller’s rant with a link, but … Continue reading →

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Misfits Series 3, Episode 3

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Cora

After a decent season premiere and a lovely character piece last week, episode 3 is another character driven story. And this time around, the focus is on Simon and his strange destiny, which formed the background arc of series 2. … Continue reading →

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Two short links for a grey Sunday

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Cora

The Observer has a portrait of Alan Moore in connection with the now ubiquitous V for Vendetta mask. I’m always stunned by how many people don’t know where masks actually come from. I also have a new post up at … Continue reading →

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Celebrities being arseholes about Occupy Wall Street

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Cora

Legendary comic writer/artist Frank Miller is proving himself to be an arsehole over the Occupy movement. Well, I never liked his work as much as many others, even in my comic reading days – overrated and way too much problematic … Continue reading →

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Busy with something else linkdump

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Cora

I’ve been hard at work preparing the next Pegasus Pulp e-book for publication. This time around, it’s the first of several stories and novellas I wrote about the Silencer, a masked vigilante in the tradition of the pulp mags of … Continue reading →

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A Birthday Linkdump

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Cora

Today is my birthday. I’ll probably post some photos later tonight, but first here is a linkdump with some more on gender and Game of Thrones, some writing advice, heroes and villains, super and otherwise and finally a signal boost. … Continue reading →

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Fictional Riches

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Cora

Who would have thought that Forbes Magazine, that indispensable prop carried around by business students hoping to impress girls (I was that girl and distinctly unimpressed), had a sense of humour? But they obviously do, since they published this list … Continue reading →

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Vampires and Supervillains

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Cora

Here are two posts on vampires from Theodora Goss and Nathan Ballingrud. What unites both of them as well as many others in the speculative fiction community is that they see the romanticization of the vampire in decent years as … Continue reading →

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Superhero Soap

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Cora

As a longtime X-Men reader, I found this amusing: The many graves of Jean Grey. Though I would have thought there would have been even more graves. After all, I remember Jean experiencing a fairly brief “death” around 1991/92. Though … Continue reading →

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Better than expected

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Cora

I chanced to watch Iron Man on TV tonight and enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. I missed the film back when it was in the theatres, partly because I was overly busy with my MA … Continue reading →

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