war stories
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WARNING SPOILERS!!! As I read David Almond’s The True Tales of the Monster Billy Dean Telt By Hisself I kept thinking of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. Both stories center around preadolescent boys who have become part of an ad hoc families. Gaiman’s Bod is adopted by the graveyard’s ghosts and Almond’s Billy, while still
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TV ad using the Panasonic Orbitel TV set. In her depiction of the robots, Fiona Staples gives us a sort of disturbing sideshow representation of an alien race that is grotesque in a very good way. The race of robots in Saga have human bodies and old 1960s-style 12 inch televisions for heads (complete with
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I was going to go with the traditional protest song “War” but then thought this Austin Powers clip delivered the anti-war message just as well through humor. Through research, imagination, and an empathetic prowess Katey Schultz has provided us with glimpses of basic human desires stunted by war. Flashes of War, her collection of war-based
Vincent Young 