I wrap up my quick sidetrip into the Marvel universe with not just the last two volumes of Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, but a sidesidetrip as well; shortly before the Mary Jane series, Marvel dabbled with novels with a similar conceit (the Spider-Man story from Mary Jane's perspective), though otherwise there's no connection.


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This semester, I'm taking a class called "Victorian Controversies," where we're reading works of Victorian fiction alongside primary and secondary sources that relate to them: stuff about the Poor Law with Oliver Twist, religion with In Memoriam, dinosaurs with The Origin of Species, and so on.  I'm finding it enjoyable, as you might imagine, and ( Read more... )

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A momentary lull in my acquisition of new audio dramas (waiting for that new Paul McGann season with companion Mary Shelley!) has let me catch up on some old stuff: the last three installments in 2002-06's Sarah Jane Smith series.


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I've read a lot of DC series so far in Faster than a DC Bullet, and not all of them were even DC universe: Green Arrow, The Sandman, Gotham Central, Y: The Last Man... But something I haven't done yet is read a single series produced by a different publisher. This is appropriate, given the series title I suppose, but other publishers do make ( Read more... )

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