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The second promised blog post about Marvel Comics X-Men! I don’t mean the on-screen X-Men of the past twenty years. I do not mean the fighting game characters in Capcom’s video games. I also do not mean the 90s Saturday morning cartoon that had a smashingly good sixth season produced this year...

Although it was mentioned in the last blog post that the X-Men stuff would have more than one entry, it will arrive on a later date. Instead, today we will be talking about a volume of the incredibly bombastic writings of James Ellroy; American Tabloid.

Published in the mid 90s. It...

If you have been reading the blog posts here, especially the last few dozen, you could see a common theme among the books being read and critiqued here. This has already been addressed (probably around the review of the DARPA book by Annie Jacobsen a month or so ago) and it will be addressed...

Although the two books being reviewed today are the direct subject, the comic book landscape in the early 90s will be the larger target. Within that already esoteric field, we are going to be talking about one particular design tendency among comic books in the early 90s; guns! Back then, it was...

Twice the normal content on this blog post. Two books reviewed! Well, maybe not two complete critiques of two books, but at least one with mentions of another. Both deal with the theme of ‘hacking’. Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley and This is How They Tell Me The World Ends by Nicole...

This is the first post breaking the tradition of reporting on the blog updates, unless I suppose I generate an ‘update’ tag to assign to this blog post. Oh, I need to make those schema changes to the blog_post model. I won’t mention it again, but there are always updates going on. Check the git...