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Fantastic Friday: The original School Daze

Fantastic Friday! In issue #581, we’re time traveling back to college. No Triple Lindy, though. To recap: Reed has recently formed the Future Foundation, a sort of combination school and think tank composed of genius kids and others. Some time … Continue reading

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 4 (part 6)

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. The super-long act 4, scene 4 continues, with equal parts romance and duplicity. The usual for Shakespeare. After spending all this time with Autolycus, the shepherd’s son, and Mopsa, the scene now shifts back over … Continue reading

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Fantastic Friday: Hot dad

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Annual #32 offers killer cyborgs, shrinking into a microscopic world, and… fears of parenthood? The great Bryan Hitch is back on pencils, with Andrew Currie on inks. But the really big deal … Continue reading

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Fantastic Friday: Fun with Dragon Man

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. But it’s been a hectic week, so instead let’s get to know one of our new Future Foundation members, Dragon Man! * * * * Want more? Check out my ongoing serial, … Continue reading

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 4 (part 5)

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! As Act 4, scene 4 continues, it’s more talk of music and songs, but it there something more to it? Picking up from where we left off, there’s more tomfoolery between the shepherd’s son (or … Continue reading

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Fantastic Friday: Not Woody and Buzz

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Now that we’ve met the Future Foundation, issue #580 gives us our first look at what they’re up to. To recap, Reed and the FF have assembled, either by design or by … Continue reading

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Fantastic Friday: Foundational

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Speaking of starts, this is a brand-new one for Fantastic Four and for Marvel in general as the Heroic Age begins. You might say this time in comics is… foundational. What’s all … Continue reading

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 4 (part 4)

Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! Time for some comedy (naughty comedy!) as more characters join the already-stuffed act 4 scene 4. The attention shifts to the shepherd’s son (or the clown, as he’s called in the Pelican and Oxford editions) … Continue reading

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Fantastic Friday: Let’s everybody get mythic

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. We’re going all the way back to the beginning with Mythos: Fantastic Four. What’s Mythos? This was a series of one-shots allegedly created to bridge the gap between Marvel Comics and their … Continue reading

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 4 (part 3)

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! The epic act 4 scene 4 continues on with more romantic poetry, but also a little darkness underneath. Where were we? It’s springtime in Bohemia, and Polixenes the king, in disguise as a farmer, gets … Continue reading

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