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book review: watchmen by alan moore and david gibbons

i am again trying to catch up with lost history. i don’t know why i didn’t know about the watchmen. it’s true,  i have never been a DC fan. something awkward about DC heroes. however watchmen transcends the usual canons of DC comics. Alan Moore imagines a different world , not the cold war balanced [...]

Book review: The league of Extraordinary Gentlemen

just read, too late perhaps. it’s a great story and great comic, but , I am sorry to say, it just doesn’t do it for me.. my loss..

William Gibson and the RCA, London

god himself, william gibson, has just send a re-tweet on the royal college of arts in london: I went to the RCA show last year, but it was too crowded and hot to enjoy the items on display. besides there was free beer (or not?) but no water to be had. an absolute disaster in [...]

Book review: JG Ballard, The Wind from Nowhere

first book by JG Ballard. i see now that there is in  at least some of ballard books, a theme that repeats itself: something in the natural environment breaks out of its normal parameters; becomes lethal to humans;  few survive and we happen to follow the stories of some of these “survivors”; finally the condition [...]