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Comics: A Beginner’s Guide: Westerns
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— 25 Aug 2008 Martin Skidmore 9 comments

I can’t say this is a genre that I think has seen many of comics’ great peaks – some of the best comes in bits and pieces here and there: old stories in comics by various publishers by Alex Toth and Jack Kirby and the like. Frankly,[…]

the 2012 london olympics opening ceremony
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— 25 Aug 2008 mark sinker 10 comments

question: who should create and direct it?
preamble: the chinese capitalised (er haha) on A: a known gift for fireworks, B: a known gift for people prettily running with flags, C: spectacular oriental spectacle, D: a population as numberless as the p[…]

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