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Golden Nuggets

February 4, 2004

Excitement, mayhem and adventure are the order of the day as the Digger girls return. The first Gold Brick collection to be in color sees Gina, Britanny and Brianna going to such places as the Halls of the Extremely Dead, Muthia, the local shopping mall, Jade and the Explorers Society Banquet. Meet such diverse creatures [...]

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Cute Goths

July 23, 2003

Neil Gaimans The Sandman was one of comics most finest slice of story-telling. Alan Moore’s The Saga of the Swamp Thing may have created the Vertigo line, but The Sandman defined it. It also brought about some of the worst aspects of comics. Whilst on one hand it could be witty, daring and exciting, it [...]

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Teenage Kicks

July 16, 2003

Battle Royale is one of the most innovative movies to come out of Japan in the last few years. I’m sure most of us have seen it so I won’t go into the storyline too much, but a few things always bothered me about it. There was no really good reason for the show. It [...]

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Digging for Gold

June 26, 2003

The book for this week is about a young, bespectacled lad, from a broken home who suddenly finds out that he’s to be the greatest magician ever. To be trained by some of the most powerful mages and witches, have enemies constantly trying to kill him. Plus, deal with the general pains of growing up. [...]

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Love Hurts

June 18, 2003

Back again with another recommendation. Something weird is happening in the bookshops of America these days. The biggest growth in book-reading amongst the young and teenage market ( and boys especially) is not Mr.Potter and his cohorts but, believe it or not, Manga. Nobody can understand how this came about, but it seems that good [...]

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Babes and Guns

June 11, 2003

Where do I start when describing the art of Masamune Shirow? One of the first manga artists I was introduced to, with the Eclipse printings of Appleseed and Dominion Tank Police, I knew straight away that this was an artist/writer I would stick with over the years. And so it has proved. A major influence [...]

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