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Revisiting the Teen Years … with less fingerless gloves and dayglo tees
The good thing that happened yesterday (apart from putting the new bed together without the loss of fingers and only a modicum of swears) was that my Amazon UK thingies arrived.
1. The Ballad of Halo Jones (Alan Moore and Ian Gibson)
2. Nemesis the Warlock V.1
3. Nemesis the Warlock V.2
So I was up
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Watchmen … or The Philosopher-Slaughterers … or Why I Always Fight Crime Wearing Suspenders
Have just returned from the almost three hour (i.e. bladder busting) movie Watchmen. I admit my ignorance straight up – I do know Alan Moore’s work on 2000AD and ‘The Ballad of Halo Jones’ is one of my all-time favourites – but I did not know Watchmen. Having seen the movie, I’m still not sure I know Watchmen.
The aesthetics were
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