Full review posted to cxPulp.com.
Story: 2.5/5
Art: 4/5
Overall: 3/5
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I’ve a bit bigger mission ahead of me than I had thought, to track down all all of the Ultraverse comics…and this EXcludes ashcans and most variant/special covers.
Still…I’ve also got a pretty good head start, with an entire run of Prime, and near-entire runs of Strangers and Rune, as well as significant chunks of other titles, and a bunch of the one-shots and several mini-series.
[Thanks to Ultraverse Flashback for the initial checklist.]
Angels of Destruction: 1
Black September: Preview
Codename Firearm: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Collector’s Guide to the Ultraverse: 1
Conan (comic book): 4, 5
Conan the Savage (magazine): 4
Conan vs. Rune: 1
Countdown to Ultraverse: #x
Dream Team: 1
Eliminator: 0, 2, 3
Elven: 4
(All-New) Exiles: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Exiles vs. X-Men: 0
Firearm: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18
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There are so many crappy biographies … would you rather read a poorly-written biography of a fascinating life, OR an exquisitely well-written, wonderful read of one of a not-so-interesting life?
I think it would really depend on who the biography is about…if it’s a fascinating life, then it would probably still be interesting if not well-written. And a not-so-interesting life could surely be made interesting due to being well-written.
I don’t read biographies, though…or at least, it’s been a good 15 years or so. Then again–maybe I’ve read some, or excerpts, for “research” for school. But offhand, the only one I can think of that I read for myself, because I wanted to, for leisure, was actually an autobiography or something close to it, in I Am Spock, about Leonard Nimoy.
I’ve been sort of toying with reading a biographical work about Bill Bright, the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ…though given my track record lately with books vs. comics, it’s not likely to happen anytime soon.
There’s a comics publisher–I’m at a loss as to its name off the top of my head right now–that has been putting out biographical comics on various celebrities and politicians. And though I’m a comics person, I have found myself with zero interest in those.
Running with stream of consciousness here…
I missed last week’s Booking Through Thursday (I caught up this week)…but I enjoyed Dewey, Marley & Me, and Wesley the Owl…which I guess now that I think of it, are autobiographical in terms of the authors…and biographical about the wonderful animals.
In THAT context…I suppose I’m interested in biographical works about animals (primarily furry-pets…cats or dogs) who’ve had a profound impact on their humans’ lives.
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[W]hat animal-related books have you read? Which do you love? Do you have a favorite literary dog? (Snoopy, anyone?)
[I totally forgot it was Thursday last week until Friday…so, doubling up this week!]
Offhand, I haven’t read that many animal-related books. I’m sure I read a number of non-fiction ones back in 1992 or so…I have vague memories of poking through a lot of books about cats shortly after my family adopted Kayla.
I must highly recommend two comic-strip style books: Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Cats are Weird, both by Jeffrey Brown. These are hardcover collections of anecdotal observations of cats that PERFECTLY capture the nature of the beloved pet cat.
There’s also one of those pocket-sized gift-book style hardcover deals, with illustrations and the lyrics to a poem: Weep Not For Me; the words from which remain EXTREMELY cathartic to me, having lost two cats in the last 3 years.
Then there are my top-3 “animal-memoirs.” Marley & Me; Dewey; and Wesley the Owl.
I “discovered” Dewey: The Small-Town Library-Cat Who Touched the World thanks to a Borders email or some sort of ad. It sounded interesting, but I quickly forgot it. Then, just days after I lost my cat Christy, I rediscovered Dewey. Bought it, and read it cover to cover in under 20 hours, including sleep. The book was highly cathartic, to say the least.
Marley & Me I think I had heard about, or else was recommended to me shortly after I read Dewey, so I located a copy and had that read quickly (and this was well before knowing there was a movie being made. The movie’s good, too!)
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