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Comics: A Beginner’s Guide: Stretching the Superhero
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— 14 Jul 2008 Martin Skidmore 10 comments

Having mentioned ’60s superheroes, at Marvel and DC, and Alan Moore, I thought I’d talk about those who tried to take the genre somewhere else in past years.
Steve Gerber
It was Steve Gerber who got me back into comics in the ’70s, […]

It Only Works Because You’re Here – More MJ Hibbettage
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— 14 Jul 2008 Alan 1 comment

WATCH THIS VIDEO. It’s a LOVE STORY. It’s like REMAINS OF THE DAY 2.0. The greatest love story ever blogged. erm, set against an epic backdrop of the deep south and the american civil war CSS standards compliancy and web-browser wars.[…]

The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 40: Led Zeppelin – “Immigrant Song”
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— 14 Jul 2008 Tom 4 comments

When Jeff Wayne was hunting for a musical way to express the horror and chaos of a Martian invasion, it was to Led Zeppelin he turned. The synthesiser riff on “Horsell Common And The Heat Ray”, so evocative of war-blasted Wokingham and Ch[…]

I Was A Goblin: Keep Magic Live
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— 14 Jul 2008 Tom 3 comments

Live role-playing is a great idea. YES IT IS. All the stuff 95% of gamesmasters are really terrible at – verbal scene setting, establishing who is where when, getting across the physicality of the gameworld (and, indeed, the physics) – de[…]

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