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    Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await

    Take a Trip Down the Lynchian Rabbit Hole

    L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion

    Strangely Hairless Concept Art From Frankenstein's Film Noir Revamp

    23rd Century Muslim Cyborgs in "Budayeen Nights"

    KOP And Ex-KOP Are Pure Noir Candy

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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    09/15/09

    In reply to Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await
    Good to see Ex Machina is back this week.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    09/15/09

    In reply to Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await
    This may sound like a weird question, but how can a future be alternate?
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: We can't, because if we travel into the future from this point in time, it will be the future of THIS reality, in which Biff is corrupt, powerful, and married to your mother, and in which THIS has happened to ME!! [holds up newspaper reading "EMMETT BROWN COMMITTED"] No, our only chance to repair the present is in the past, at the point where the time line skewed into this tangent. In order to put the universe back as we remember it and get back to our reality, we have to find out the exact date and specific circumstances of how, when, and where young Biff got his hands on that sports almanac.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/15/09

    @redqueenmeg: Alternate or not. As long as I get to have a go on a GOD DAMN HOVERBOARD!!!!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/15/09

    @redqueenmeg: Have I mentioned that you are going to be like the coolest Mom ever?!
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Well, they don't work on water, you know.
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @Grey_Area: Aww, thanks! :) Here's a secret, though, I already have a 4-year-old. But he thinks I am cool too. And he watches LOTR. So we have that going for us, which is nice.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    09/15/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: If you're referring to the description of Frank Miller's Martha Washington, it works out like this:

    1.In the 1990s Frank Miller wanted to write a political satire. He set it in the future so it wouldn't be about any specific person but about general concepts in politics and socioeconomics.

    2.In the 1990s the 21st Century was still in the future.

    3.Much of the story takes place in what is now our present day --the early 21st Century.

    4.Frank Miller is a good writer but not a prescient one. His fictional details of 21st Century life are entertaining but of course have no connection with the actual 21st Century we find ourselves in. They diverge quite a bit.
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    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    09/04/09

    In reply to Take a Trip Down the Lynchian Rabbit Hole
    Burnt through all of this yesterday and it's fantastic. Easily one of the best comics I've read in years.
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    09/02/09

    In reply to Take a Trip Down the Lynchian Rabbit Hole
    It lay eggs now. Enjoy!
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/02/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!:
    Mmmmmmmmm. Xenomorph caviar...

    *It is recommended that you chew the eggs before you swallow...
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    08/26/09

    In reply to L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
    I was going to turn up my nose to this, but how can I resist "L.A. is what happens when a bunch of Lovecraftian elder gods and porn starlets spend a weekend locked up in the Chateau Marmont snorting lines of crank off Jim Morrison's bones. If the Viagra and illegal Traci Lords videos don't get you going, then the Japanese tentacle porn will..."

    HOW CAN I?
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    Image of bookling bookling
    08/26/09

    In reply to L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
    I just read this book, and it is indeed awesome. I definitely recommend it.
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    Image of Eldritch Eldritch
    08/26/09

    In reply to L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
    This came into my bookstore a few weeks ago and I keep wanting to get it, except that it is a TINY hardcover and still the full hardcover price. No idea why, but I'm not gonna shell out $20 for a hardcover the size of a mass market paperback. Maybe when it's out in paperback I'll try it.
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    Image of William Mercado William Mercado
    08/26/09

    In reply to L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
    Just finished it last week

    It's a good read, if you've been around the block gritty fantasy wise there's nothing new. If you're a fan of Gaiman, Westlake and Tarrantino this is recommened.
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    Image of Batmanuel Batmanuel
    08/26/09

    In reply to L.A. Is A Magical Cesspit, And Sandman Slim Is Its New Champion
    Didn't Desolation Jones have a similar premise, except LA was a dumping ground for retired secret government agents?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/26/09

    @Batmanuel: Only in the sense that the protagonist comes back to take revenge on the people that screwed him over. And that plot has been done before as well. At least twice.
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    Image of it must be bunnies it must be bunnies
    08/11/09

    In reply to Strangely Hairless Concept Art From Frankenstein's Film Noir Revamp
    These images are sooo dark I now have a headache and eye strain!
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/11/09

    In reply to Strangely Hairless Concept Art From Frankenstein's Film Noir Revamp
    This could be a disaster !!
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    08/11/09

    @gorehound: So, you've changed your repertoire...
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/11/09

    @Bill-Lee: It's good to see him doing something fresh and original.
    Oh wait...
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    02/27/09

    In reply to 23rd Century Muslim Cyborgs in "Budayeen Nights"
    Good review, Grey! I read these stories as they were published but didn't know they'd all been gathered up.


    (BTW, Geo. HATED the Muffy Birnbaum stories. Refused to talk about them after they were done and would basically bite your head off if you dared mention them.)

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/27/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: [Hides book behind back]

    Muffy, Muffy who?? Yah, I heard that.

    Funny stuff pays the bills and, sister, did he have a lot of bills.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    02/27/09

    @Grey_Area: Although those were earlier-ish stuff, and he quit writing them and got all snarly even after he had plenty more bills and selling more would have helped.


    Maybe he just wasn't capable of writing light and funny later on?

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/28/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: That makes a great of sense. Marid's adventures have a lot of Dark Humor but it'll never be mistaken for a comic romp.
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    Image of OldDog1 OldDog1
    02/27/09

    In reply to 23rd Century Muslim Cyborgs in "Budayeen Nights"
    Like it says on my book bag...


    If I have a little money, I buy books. If there is anything left over, I buy food and clothes.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/27/09

    @OldDog1: Good dog. Good, good dog!
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    Image of NinoKlien NinoKlien
    02/27/09

    In reply to 23rd Century Muslim Cyborgs in "Budayeen Nights"
    Sounds interesting, but there is no need to pander to the muslims with that 'nobel koran' junk. it's as nobel as the enquirer, just for a wacked story.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/27/09

    @NinoKlien: I panda to no bear.

    I was just trying to get some of the flavor of the writing across.
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    Image of ConAnt ConAnt
    02/27/09

    In reply to 23rd Century Muslim Cyborgs in "Budayeen Nights"
    I read these books over the course of the past 20 years. It doesn't surprise me Effinger wrote for Playboy...they're smart, and sexy. I found the original nigh-impossible Budayeen hardback a few years ago, and was thrilled to revisit "old friends". It's such a shame Effinger died. These books rock.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    02/27/09

    @ConAnt: Also, remember was paying top money for fiction back in the day. Some great stories came out between the T&A. Nice to hear from a fellow blazebrain. Salaam 'n' stuff!
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