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Fantastic Friday: Foundational

Posted on August 23, 2024 by Mac McEntire

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)

Posted on August 14, 2024 by Mac McEntire

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

Posted on August 9, 2024 by Mac McEntire

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)

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Mac McEntire

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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Fantastic Friday: Sky booms

Posted on August 2, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. It’s not a retcon or a remake, it’s a “Marvel Remix,” as we flashback to the early days of the Inhumans in Fantastic Four: Fireworks. We all love ‘60s Marvel, but they … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 4 (part 2)

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! As the epic act 4 scene 4 continues, Perdita continues to show us what she’s made of.   We just got to know young lovers Perdita and Florizell, and now they’re joined on stage by … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: Son of a Genius

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Time to get all inner child with the kid-friendly Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius. Son of a Genius, from writer and cartoonist Chris Eliopoulos, started as some backup comics appearing in … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 4 Scene 4 (Part 1)

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! It’s taken us a while to get here, but act 4 scene 4 has a lot of what people love about this play. Lots of folks will summarize The Winter’s Tale by saying the first … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: What’s bugging you?

Posted on July 19, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Remember Marvel’s Annihilation crossover? No? Well, issue #578 sure does.   Johnny, in voiceover captions (is that the right term?) describes meeting a woman at a bar called The Other Side of … Continue reading →

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

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! In act 4 scene 3, we meet… the king of thieves! The previous scene established that we’re in Bohemia know, caught us up on some characters, and set up some plot. And now Autolycus struts … Continue reading →

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