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More Comics for Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone!I hope everyone had a good dinner and received at least one present. Please remember to be nice to yourselves and enjoy some fine readings during the holidays:You can't go...
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2022 Comic Books: Arion's Achievement Awards
I never get tired of reading comics and that remains as one of my favorite activities. Once a month I get my package of comics and it’s always a thrill to get them out, selecting which ones I’ll read...
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December Films / Películas de diciembre
Happy New Year! We can celebrate the beginning of 2023 combining December films with the Best of 2022 List. So let’s start with one of the best films of the year, directed by Luca Guadagnino: Bones and...
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Adventures of Superman # 429 & 430 - Marv Wolfman & Jerry Ordway
As I’ve mentioned before, it might seem like a peculiar paradox to observe that, in the 80s, most of the new characters in the Superman mythos showed up for the first time in Adventures of Superman,...
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Amazing Fantasy # 1000 - Gaiman, McNiven, Slott, Cheung et al
In October 2022, Marvel decided to commemorate their first superhero, Spider-Man, with Amazing Fantasy # 1000, a delightful anthology that reunites some of the most popular creative teams in today’s...
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December Comics / Cómics de diciembre
It might seem like I didn’t get enough comics this time, but if you look closely, that Thing omnibus has over 1000 pages! I got lots of first issues and they were all good, Night Club was surprisingly...
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Un-American Chronicles on Amazon
Hi everyone! I think it's about time to revisit Un-American Chronicles, 4 stand-alone stories in one very special issue: The Outsider (a horror story about a group of immoral kids that punish a...
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January films / películas de enero
January was a good time to relax and watch movies. Let’s start with Im Westen Nichts Neues (2022), also known as “All Quiet on the Western Front”; based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, this...
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Arrowsmith - Kurt Busiek & Carlos Pacheco
It might seem at the beginning that this is an alternative past but it is so much more than that. This is a world in which the laws of reality are not the ones that apply to us; it is a world where...
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January Comics / Cómics de enero
I have to say I’m thrilled with my February comics. First a shout out to this beautiful hardcover edition of America: Lost & Found, one of the best Judge Dredd stories of all times! I really...
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Eternals: Thanos Rises, Celestia & The Heretic - Kieron Gillen
Eternals very quickly became one of my favorite ongoing titles from Marvel comics in recent years. Lately it has become so difficult to find good monthly titles; in general, they are muddled with...
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February films / películas de febrero
Last month I decided to concentrate on productions from 2022. Let’s start with Oscar nominee The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), written and directed by Martin McDonagh. A unique film full of unusual...
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February comics / cómics de febrero
In the shortest month of the year I got the shortest amount of comics, but they were all really good. Danger Street and Where Monster Lie continue to surprise me. And the conclusion of Superman: Space...
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Captain Britain & Spider-Man - Chris Claremont & John Byrne
The most typical excuse of college students for being absent is “I overslept”; and that is how the story begins. Peter Parker has to meet the dean on campus early in the morning and, of course, he...
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March films / películas de marzo
In March I basically rewatched some of my all time favorite films. When I decided to create a list of the best films of the 20th and 21st century, I immediately included Låt den rätte komma in (2008),...
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March Comic Books / Cómics de marzo
With barely half a dozen comics in March, I still can’t explain why it took me a while to read them. I was glad to see Milligan and Allred back in X-Cellent, Danger Street continues to be good, Doctor...
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April films / películas de abril
In April I had the chance to travel to sunny Santa Barbara, but I also had time to watch recent productions such as Matt Ruskin’s Boston Strangler (2023), a historic thriller in which two brave female...
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April Comics / cómics de abril
Last month we only had half a dozen comics but now, lo and behold, there are over 20 comics, including quite a few FCBD books (some of which I might not have included here). So let’s start, shall we?...
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Newuniversal - Warren Ellis & Salvador Larroca
I remember that the first time I heard about the New Universe, John Byrne was making a parody of it in the pages of a Superman comic. I had no idea about the New Universe but thanks to the guys in the...
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May films / películas de mayo
In May I had the chance to watch new productions and rewatch old ones. Marc Forster directs A Man Called Otto (2022). After losing his wife, Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), a lonely...
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