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Belleville Rendez-vous starts with a crackly black and white TV
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Belleville Rendez-vous starts with a crackly black and white TV showing an animated dance number by the charatcers the Belleville Triplets: an homage to all those Merry Melodies and Silly Symphonies which cluttered up the cartoon times of my youth. I[…]

Last week I went to The Oval
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Last week I went to The Oval to watch the first day of the last test between England and South Africa. Now a lot of people, and I mean a lot of people (if you consider the populations of any non-commonwealth country and lots of them too) do not under[…]

GOLDEN OMELETTES
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Continuity, Fandom and Pop
Anyone with more than a passing interest in the geekier elements of mass culture – superhero comic books or genre TV, for instance – will be aware of the idea of continuity. (more…)[…]

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  1. "In fact, I’ve only encountered one blogger with good things to say about Latter Days, and he ended up collaborating…

  2. "at one point a character literally dusts him". That part was hilarious!

  3. "Dave Sim sticks the landing." That is my feeling too. As frustrating and borderline unreadable as the last 50 issues…

  4. One thing I think you missed and one thing I have to shamefacedly admit: 1) The Krazy Kat homage, brief…

  5. " ... it’s also an ominous indication of where he’s going as a creator. He’s laying out dialogue so as…