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Belleville Rendez-vous starts with a crackly black and white TV
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— 8 Sep 2003 Pete Baran Comment

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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— 8 Sep 2003 Pete Baran Comment

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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— 8 Sep 2003 Tom Comment

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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  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…

  6. LOL - I'm reading through these, and the "Jaka's Story" one drew my first reaction, and in it I said…

  7. I think the notion that conservatives can't make art is nonsense. J.R.R.Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton are two of my favorite…