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2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novellas – Part 30
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- July 24, 2020
Welcome to the third and final part in a series of articles looking at the works in competition for the Best Novella category at the Hugo Awards.
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Cook Your Comics: Have Tea & Cake, Will Time Travel in Ash & Thorn #30
To fend off an imminent apocalypse the world needs a champion, and every good champion needs a wise mentor. But tensions are rising between saviour-of-the-world Lottie Thorn and under-appreciated guardian Lady Peruvia Ashlington-Voss, in Ash & Thorn #3. In previous installments of Cook Your Comics, Melissa Brinks whipped up some apocalyptic gingerbread and Wendy Browne
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REVIEW: X-Men: Free Comic Book Day Special Draws the First Sword0
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- July 22, 2020
“Some forgotten place. Some forsaken time.” Quick! To what are the opening words of the X-Men Free Comic Book Day special referring: A.) The dying star where, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a Minotaur and a fish woman performed an arcane ritual to appease the Omniversal Majestrix Saturnyne… B.) My
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REVIEW: Batgirl #47 Revisits “The Killing Joke” AGAIN2
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- July 22, 2020
If there’s one constant over the last ten years of Batgirl stories, it’s DC revisiting the time that Joker paralyzed Barbara Gordon. In 2011, when the New 52 launched, it did so with Barbara back behind the cowl as Batgirl, something that hadn’t been seen since 1988 in Batgirl Special #1. The Killing Joke hit
READ MORE2020 Hugo Awards Reviews: Novellas – Part 20
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- July 22, 2020
Continuing our reviews of the 2020 Hugo Awards finalists in the Best Novella category, we move on to To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers and Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang.
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REVIEW: The Art of the Darkness: I Have No Mouth and I Must Screw0
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- July 21, 2020
2007’s The Art of the Darkness (I’m looking at the 2017 ten year reissue) is one of the coffee table burlesque publications you’re likely familiar with—most local comic shops, or comics sections of chain bookshops, will have at least one Frank Cho Heteronomicon on offer and/or display, for example. Many superhero artists who gain acclaim
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A Helluva Thing: Serialized Death in Black Bolt
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- April 20, 2018
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