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The Rocketeer (1991)

Updated Sep 18, 2006

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Billy Campbell may have fallen to the 4400, while you might question Jennifer Connoley's artistic choices (The Hulk? Dark Water?), but they were young and fresh and beautiful in this wildlyadventurous, good-humored, and romantic action pic based on a really terrific graphic novel. Holds up great!

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GIANTmicrobes | Calamities

Updated Dec 19, 2006

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How can you NOT love plush toys made to look like viruses, microbes, and venereal diseases? I mean, come ON, people! Really!

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Skeptico

Updated Sep 1, 2006

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*Sniff* .. always my favorite planet, so cold and lonely. And now .. just another planetary body wandering above the ecliptic. Oh, Pluto .. we hardly knew ye. But at least we got to bring home this lousy t-shirt...

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Eggling

Updated Oct 2, 2006

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Okay,this is just too cool for words. I'm buying one for every green friend I know, as the perfect combination of natural beauty and whimsey. Egg-ceptional! (Sorry.)

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Concrete Volume 1: Depths

Updated Aug 30, 2006

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Yes, another tpb compilation (though it's far more elegantly made than most), but here again: there is a really rather wonderful over-arching concept here, about the life of a fairly nondescript political speechwriter who suddenly finds himself trapped in the body of a rock-skinned, super-strong Golem. So what happens next? AMAZING things in this gentle, intelligent, and almost leisurely speculation that shows just how different graphic novels CAN be (and so ften ARE).

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The Rocketeer, by Dave Stevens

Updated Aug 30, 2006

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Dave Stevens pulled off a miracle here: a story of a Depression-era, pre-WWII "superhero" that is funny without being precious, exciting without being manipulative, and just damn beautiful to look at. The film version wasn't bad (Billy Campbell of THE 4400, and the first screen appearance of Jennifer "The Hulk" Connolly!), but the comic is actually better. MUCH better, and charming as all get-out.

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30 Days Of Night: Three Tales (30 Days of Night)

Updated Aug 30, 2006

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Without a doubt the simplest, scariest concept on the list: up in the small Alaskan town of Barrow, where it's dark for a month at a time, the Vampires come to meet ... and to feed. Bloody, awful, ugly, and really wonderful. The newest and one of the best books on the list.

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Batman: The Killing Joke

Updated Aug 30, 2006

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I know, I promised no more Alan Moore. And certainly no more Batman. But look, c'mon, this one is DIFFERENT. For one thing, it really IS a novel -- a single story, conceived as such, and with all the horrific impact that only a single shot (so to speak) can deliver. And Dave Gibbons, of WATCHMEN and GIVE ME LIBERTY has never EVER been better. Not to mention the complete and utter lack of a 'comic book' happy ending. An absolute keeper.

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The Ultimates, Vol. 1

Updated Aug 30, 2006

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Sick of superheroes? Me, too. But just when I think the art is hopelessly overblown, along comes a big, beautiful thinking man's artist like Brian Hitch, and Mark Millar re-imagines the most hackneyed cliches in the biz -- Marvel Comics' Avengers -- as if nobody had ever thought of them before. Not the iconoclastic explosion of the icons like Moore's WATCHMEN; more like a re-boot with a new fifty years' worth of media savvy attached. It's like looking at clips from the greatest superhero movie of the 21st century. And wait 'till you see Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury...

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Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned

Updated Aug 30, 2006

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I generally don't want to confused "tpb's" -- large-format paperback compilations of "pamphlets" -- but sometimes the serial that was forced out in monthly drips was SUPPOSED to be a novel to begin with -- a single story, split unnaturally into chunks by economic reality. Anyway: Y: THE LAST MAN was/is one of those. You can still buy the monthly comic -- maybe you should, to make sure Brian K. Vaughn keeps doing it -- but I truly prefer to wait for the tpb to be published, and enjoy the story in its 'natural' state. And this is a weird one, the opens with the (bloody) spontaneous death of ever single male on the planet Earth ... except fo rone hapless would-be escape artist twenty-something, who suddenly becomes the most important creature in the world. Great dialogue, some interesting speculation that only rarely falls into absurdity or satire. I actually look forward to the almost semi-annual new editions.

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Ronin

Updated Aug 30, 2006

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Yes, I know, I know: you say "Frank Miller" you HAVE to say DARK KNIGHT RETURNS or SIN CITY. Nooooo, don't. This was one of his first, conceived as a real novel and not compiled from 'pamphlets' -- and it reamins a spooky, engaging and VERY different story. Sorry, Frank: still my favorite!

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

Updated Aug 30, 2006

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No, it's not ALL about Alan Moore, but it's very, very hard to build a "best of" list and not mention him over and over. This is another old idea -- P.J. Farmer among many others has done it in text -- but nobody does it better, from his bleak and alcoholic Challenger to his giddily pornographic Invisible Man...it really is classic stuff.

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Ask Moxie - Parenting Advice

Updated Aug 30, 2006

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It's true: Moxie's one of the best of the many many MANY mommyblogs out there. Worth checking in as often as the clock allows. (via lakeline)

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EPICURUS THE SAGE

Updated Dec 8, 2006

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William Messner-Loebs was one of the first of the modernish comics writers to do g.n. that wasn't about masked vigilantes in any way -- in fact, he decided to go as far away in time and space as he could manage, to a slightly goofy and entirely fascinating look at ancient Rome and its sages. The cartoonish and affable ink-brush style that Sam Kieth uses here is perfect for the equally askew story and characters, and the whole book shows just how far from the norm you can go and still do something kind'a wonderful.

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V for Vendetta

Updated May 3, 2007

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Forget the movie. It's like highlights of the best scenes, and nothing more. For REAL depth and danger, look inside the g.n. This isn't about revolution; it's about **anarchy**, about no-government vs. ANY government...and with a deft, cold stroke, Moore paints a future England even more bleak than it is today, utterly brought to half-life (as far as it can manage) by David Lloyd's amazing art. Hard to bleieve this was a middle-of-the-book serial in a British black-and-white anthology comic back in The Day; it reads as if it was built in a single, nightmarish session...crammed with hard things to say.

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Watchmen

Updated Aug 28, 2006

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Alan Moore is a god. That's all there is to it. He was the first and best to 'explode' the superhero myth by bringing it poetically and painfully into a 'real' world, and the only thing as good as this story is Dave Gibbons' exquisite, precise art. Published as a 12-issue mini, but really, TRULY, a novel, it's the best of its kind, bar none.

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Nyokki Pets

Updated Aug 25, 2006

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It's Chia Pets 2006! The kids love 'em and they're actually harder to kill than most other house plants...a real plus for me!

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Turnbull & Asser Shirts

Updated Aug 25, 2006

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I never used to take shirts seriously. Just upper body coverings. Then I got a few REALLY NICE ONES, tailored and everything...and suddenly, I was getting something I hadn't gotten in years: compliments on my clothes. I owe it all to T&A (so to speak)...

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Eames Lounge Chair - 50th Anniversary Edition

Updated Aug 21, 2006

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What's not to love? Beautiful to look at, IMPOSSIBLY comfortable, AND you support the Eames Foundation in he process. Me likey. (via deirdrewallace)

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Muppets' Swedish Chef Kitchen Playroom

Updated Jun 16, 2006

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The best toy EVER for parents playing with kids. More laughs and bad food that a trip to Denny's a 4:00 a.m.

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Soltronix Solar Headphone Radio - Coolbuzz

Updated Jun 14, 2006

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The end of dead batteries! (via CollBuzz)

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A "Heat Battery"

Updated May 26, 2006

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We use most of 'our' electricity to heat something -- the air, ourselves, our water. Here's a fairly amazing heat storage tank from a company called First LIght Energy Ltd. that can cut heat-energy usage by 50%-70%. Following their success in Germany, the company is currently launching its heat tanks in the U.K. Basicall a "heat battery" (via http://www.ecofriend.org/)

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LUNCHBOX-A-LELE's

Updated May 26, 2006

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Literally too cool for school! At first glance this was too great to be true. You can even play the uke (even with a tuna sandwich inside!). Then you notice the price -- $129.99, before shipping -- and you realize that this isn't something for your kids. Or at least not MINE, who have already lost three iPods in a row. Better as a museum piece than applied art and design ...but isn't that Superman uke COOL?

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Middle-Aged Elegance
Updated Aug 25, 2006
Hey, it's a good GOAL, anyway...and these are the things that help me move towards that distant dream...
Everybody's Green
Updated Aug 31, 2006
Green living and design is about more than simply saving energy, sustainability, or recycling. It's about elegance, and cleverness, and a way of thinking...and here are a few gateways and examples worth nothing (at least for me!)
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Pop Cult
Updated Sep 16, 2006
I've been trolling the world for the Really Interesting Weird Stuff for as long as I can remember...but don't be lookin' for the High Brow Here. I'm addicted to the best (and worst, and most revealing) of popular culture...and here it be ...
Parenting: Is that a Verb or a Goal?
Updated Sep 7, 2006
Being a dad, THINKING about being a Dad, telling other people what it's like to be a Dad...lots of fun, pretty crazy, and filled with Good Things. Here are just a few of 'em...
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The Best Graphic Novels in the Whole World
Updated Aug 30, 2006
...and not just the normal ones either. Yeah, the classics...but a minimum of the convenient compilations and none of the "should'a's" if they shouldn't be here. But still: the best graphic novels to come down the pike, picked from 40 years (FORTY YEARS!) of reading the damn things.
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