Shipping this week we have House of M #5, a Fantastic Four “House of M” tie-in, and Essential Daredevil Vol. 3, DC’s Villains United and Rann/Thanagar (both 4 of 6) plus #0 and 1 of the new Supergirl series, Dark Horse’s Concrete Vol. 1, and more.
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Most of this episode takes place four years before the pilot, as Jade plays hardboiled detective. All of this, of course, connects to the current story, likely in more ways than we realize.
And people still laugh about as much as they ever did…. If a bunch of them are lying around the beach, and one of them farts, everybody else laughs and laughs, just as people would have done a million years ago.
–Galapagos
Vonnegut wrote his best novels in the 1960s; his work started to founder in the 1970s. Critics often called his 1985 novel, Galápagos a comeback. Uneven but often brilliant, it would prove one of his last really good books.
In short: the future of humanity falls in the hands of the people who most likely would have been voted first off the island.
Larger than Pluto and farther away from the sun, 2003 UB313– “Xena”– may be the tenth planet in the solar system. On the other hand, maybe Pluto should lose its status.
Charlie Jade returns home, and the toxic waste hits the fan.
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nkuzmik writes, If nobody else will start the discussion, I will, and I’ll do it with a question: Is Dex enhanced in some way? I mean he has been killing Wraith singlehanded for seven years, and he went hand-to-hand with Super-Ford.Any thoughts?
This special clip episode was created for those who haven’t seen every episode, or were otherwise having trouble making sense of the show.
I suspect everyone knows that the first shuttle launch in recent years occured yesterday. The latest news (well, not for long) may be found here.
The first sentence of The Books of Bokonon is this:
“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”My Bokonist warning is this:
Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book, either.
For July, my ongoing reviews of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s best novels features Cat’s Cradle, a very funny book about the end of the world. As it’s divided into many very short chapters, it also makes good summer reading—- despite the fact that it may induce actual thinking.
