Robin, Vol. 3 by Chuck Dixon6/29/2023 I dipped my toe into the earlier parts of the Chuck Dixon run, but couldn’t stick with it for reasons I could hardly remember. Like with Peter Parker, Tim was a character whom I could admire as being a relatively normal person who always went of their way to do the right thing. I related to teenaged heroesand there was none more iconic than him at the time. I’ve always been a Marvel zombie, but during my childhood years I really latched onto Tim Drake in a way that was only surpassed by Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four. Eventually, Dixon would leave DC under mysterious circumstances, but his name remains synonymous with Robin as well as this general era of comics publishing. There had never even been a solo ongoing Robin series before that, but Dixon would steward the character and the entire Bat Family franchise across multiple series for roughly a decade. Although not his original creator, Chuck Dixon would go on to write the definitive run for the character which totaled over 100 issues. In 1989, the world would be introduced to Tim Drake, the third teenage superhero to operate under the title Robin as Batman’s sidekick. Our focus this week is the Tim Drake Robin series by legendary writer Chuck Dixon. Each week in Late to the Party, someone posts about an older piece of media that they’ve just experienced for the first time.
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The warlords of mars6/29/2023 After traversing the stars, conquering world after world, they made their way to Barsoom. The Kahori took him to their ship, sparred him as they found him to be curious, and he worked his way through their ranks to become their warlord. After surviving his battle with Carter and continuing to fight in the war, he eventually came upon The Kahori “one clear, cold night” while he was alone in the Dakotas. It’s been left uncertain as to how Clark was transported from Jasoom (Earth) to Barsoom (Mars), but in issue #4 he finally informs us of his back story. Unfortunately, for our hero, he did not and Captain Clark has made his way to Mars not resting until he kills Carter. Union officer Captain Joshua Clark is a tenacious foe whom Carter believed to have killed. In the current “John Carter Warlord of Mars” series, our hero has come upon an enemy he once faced during the Civil War at the Battle of Manassas 1861. It’s a fun series that I strongly suggest picking up. Thanks to the good people at Dynamite Comics, if you’re a fan like me, you could still follow along on his adventures with the monthly comic written by Ron Marz and illustrated by Abhishek Malsuni. “John Carter” is based on the series of stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs and is still very much alive today. I, however, was one of the few people who sat in a dark theater on opening night and loved it. Three years ago Disney released a film called “John Carter.” Unfortunately, it didn’t do as well as they hoped, a franchise was never born, and it eventually became forgotten by most people over time. The history is all you left me6/29/2023 McCain was a fierce critic of Obama administration policy there while stopping short of backing U.S. John McCain, quietly slipped into Syria for a meeting with anti-government fighters, whom he supported the U.S. history, federal prosecutors charged seven people with running what amounted to an online, underworld bank, saying that Liberty Reserve handled $6 billion for drug dealers, child pornographers, identity thieves and other criminals around the globe. Ten years ago: Calling it perhaps the biggest money-laundering scheme in U.S. At least seven people were shot as gunfire erupted during a protest in Louisville, Kentucky, to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was fatally shot by police in her home in March. Protesters in New York defied a coronavirus prohibition on public gatherings, clashing with police demonstrators blocked traffic and smashed vehicles in downtown Denver before police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. In 2020, people torched a Minneapolis police station that the department was forced to abandon amid spreading protests over the death of George Floyd. In 1998, comic actor Phil Hartman of “Saturday Night Live” and “NewsRadio” fame was shot to death at his home in Encino, California, by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself. Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright6/29/2023 He introduces the movie as a metaphor to explain that natural selection is a delusional hypothesis engineered by robot overlords, controlling everybody. The Matrix makes its audience wonder if they too may inhabit a grandiose illusion does someone or something control them all the time? Wright believes that people’s suspicions are justified. Neo takes the red pill, determining to search for the truth and embrace personal freedom. Swallowing the blue pill will return Neo to his dream world, but taking the red pill will allow him to be free of his literal constraints and loosen his mental bonds. The only means to experience the full picture is “to see it for himself.” Morpheus offers Neo two pills. He says that he cannot convey the totality of the Matrix. Morpheus explains to Neo that the dream world is a prison for enslaved people known as the Matrix. He encounters Morpheus, the leader of a rebellion against the overlords. The life he thought he had is really a detailed hallucination orchestrated by robot overlords. In a scene from the original Matrix movie, a science fiction action film from 1999, the main character, Neo, finds out that he has been living in a dream world. The author, equipped with a modern perspective and a confident understanding of both evolutionary history and psychology, addresses Buddhist philosophy and argues Buddhist philosophy’s validity is rooted in science. Today we will unlock the book Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. The ninefox gambit6/29/2023 Kel Cheris, a disgraced captain of the hexarchate, is given the opportunity to redeem herself by recapturing the formidable Fortress of Scattered Needles from heretics. The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own.Īs the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao - because she might be his next victim. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress. Cheris's career isn't the only thing at stake: if the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.Ĭheris's best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. When Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for her unconventional tactics, Kel Command gives her a chance to redeem herself, by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles from the heretics. When Puller and Cole discover a dangerous situation in the making, Puller finds he must turn to the one person who can help avert certain catastrophe. It is an investigation where nothing is as it seems, and nothing can be taken at face value. As the web of deceit is revealed, it quickly becomes apparent that there's much more to this case than they had first thought. It soon becomes clear that the case has wider implications and as the body count rises he teams up with local homicide detective Samantha Cole. Zero Day is the explosive first instalment in David Baldacci's thrilling John Puller series.ĭistinguished as a top investigator in the US government, John Puller is called in to conduct an enquiry into the brutal murders of a family in a remote area of West Virginia. The Gift by Marcus Attwater6/29/2023 Ro McCarthy, single in her fifties and working a quiet job, is sustained by her love of books and her deep friendships. The Arrow Garden is a delicately-wrought tale of truth, selfhood, and acceptance, which transcends time in its lyrical exploration of what it means to live. To visit the past or the future, even in imagination, is to change it. Setting out on a hike to a mountain village shrine, away from the charred city, she begins a life to which she is not sure she is entitled, a life which feels like living on the other side of the sky. In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents' fire-bombed home with only hazy recollections of how she survived. When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled. Amanda foody all of us villains6/28/2023 Because a tale as wicked as this one was never destined for happily ever after. no matter how many lives are sacrificed in the process.Īs the curse teeters closer and closer to collapse, the surviving champions each face a choice: dismantle the tournament piece by piece, or fight to the death as this story was always intended. 9, 2021 A bloody tournament will determine whose family controls the only high magick in the world. And a new champion has entered the fray, one who seeks to break the curse for good. New York Times Bestseller READ REVIEW 31 ALL OF US VILLAINS From the All of Us Villains series, Vol. Reporters swarm the historic battlegrounds. Release date: Enter for a chance to win a paperback of ALL OF US VILLAINS by Amanda Foody and C. The boundaries between the city of Ilvernath and the arena have fallen. “I feel like I should warn you: this is going to be absolutely brutal.”įor the first time in this ancient, bloodstained story, the tournament is breaking. Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark tale of ambition and magick. Herman’s New York Times bestselling All of Us Villains duology that's The Hunger Games with magic. An Indie Bestseller An Indie Next Pick The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and C. The epic conclusion to Amanda Foody and C. Nearly found elle cosimano6/28/2023 With both of their lives on the line, Smoke will have to decide how much he’s willing to risk, and if he can envision a future worth fighting for. The web of lies, deceit, and corruption that put Smoke behind bars is more tangled than they could have ever imagined. With Pink’s help, Smoke may be able to reveal the true killer, but the closer they get to the truth, the more deadly their search becomes. Now Smoke is on a journey to redemption he never thought possible. That is, until he meets Pink, a tough, resourceful girl who is sees him for who he truly is and wants to help him clear his name. Convinced his future is only as bright as the fluorescent lights in his cell, Smoke doesn’t care that the “threads” that bind his soul to his body are wearing thin-that one day he may not make it back in time. After a near death experience leaves him with the ability to shed his physical body at will, Smoke is able to travel freely outside the concrete walls of the Y, gathering information for himself and his fellow inmates while they’re asleep in their beds. A dangerous juvenile rehabilitation center in Denver, Colorado, known as the Y, is Smoke’s new home and the only one he believes he deserves.īut, unlike his fellow inmates, Smoke is not in constant imprisonment. John “Smoke” Conlan is serving time for two murders but he wasn’t the one who murdered his English teacher, and he never intended to kill the only other witness to the crime. Yabookscentral: Staff Pick: Holding Smoke Shannon hale best friends6/28/2023 The narrator experiences symptoms of depression, which offers a good chance to talk with readers about mental health. Eighth-graders bring alcohol to a friend's house, and the narrator has a strong, negative reaction. Bullying kids at school use name calling to humiliate and physically harass a smaller student. The author also talks more about it, and how to handle it, in the note afterward. An incident of sexual harassment is vaguely illustrated, but the victim's fear and disgust afterward is clearly shown. A few illustrations show kissing that's partly obscured. Shannon's in eighth grade now, so some kissing and romantic dynamics become a big part of the story. Parents need to know that Friends Forever is a graphic novel that continues author Shannon Hale's memoir about her childhood begun in Real Friends and Best Friends. |