Novel Review: Spook Country

William Gibson made his name with the cyberpunk trilogy, written in the 1980s and set in the twenty-first century. Since the twenty-first century increasingly looks like something from a Gibson cyberpunk novel, he has been setting his recent work in the present. This novel follows Pattern Recognition. Although the two works share some characters, references, and plot elements, this is not in the usual sense a sequel.

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History of the Marvel Universe – Incredible Hulk

In addition to the existing chapters about Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer and Spider-Man, we now have an Incredible Hulk chapter in the “History of the Marvel Universe” series. Sadly, due to the loss of license reported here, some of the chapters I had planned to write (and looked forward to researching) won’t happen, as I simply won’t have access to the source material. I still plan to write an Iron Man column in time for the movie, followed by the Avengers, Captain America, Ghost Rider and the Uncanny X-Men, but new names won’t be added to the list.
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Comic Editorial – “Spider-Man: One More Day”

Deus Ex Machina: When a writer can’t figure out how to properly end a story, so the Gods step in and rewrite reality to make things go the way the writer wants them to go.
Deimos Ex Machina: When a benevolent God won’t set things up the way the writer wants, so he brings in a demon to do the job instead.

WARNING: stop reading now if you don’t want to be spoiled.
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World War Hulk – Review and Wrap Up

With the new Loeb/McGinnes Hulk series launching next week, I felt this was a good time to do the review wrapping up the series that led to this new status quo. Tomorrow, you should expect the History of the Marvel Universe – Hulk chapter that I originally had planned to post next June, just before the movie, but then decided to get it up in time for this new relaunch.
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