Bart King's Blog, page 180
May 17, 2012
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When a bad book review is AWESOME.
When Mike McGrady's novel Naked Came the Stranger came out, the Village Voice described it this way: as being
McGrady probably loved it. To find out why, check this article. Ooh, and just for kicks, here's an unrelated illustration that struck a chord for me. (It didn't suck my soul out of my brainpan, though. Disappointed? A bit!)
“[This book has] such perfectly realized awfulness that it will suck your soul right out of
your brainpan and through your mouth, and you will happily let it go.”
McGrady probably loved it. To find out why, check this article. Ooh, and just for kicks, here's an unrelated illustration that struck a chord for me. (It didn't suck my soul out of my brainpan, though. Disappointed? A bit!)
Library of Canadian Parliament
Library of Canadian Parliament, a photo by YYZDez on Flickr.
"Modelled on the Reading Room of the British Museum, this distinctive circular structure features a ring of sixteen flying buttresses, pinnacles, decorative windows and beautiful ornamental ironwork."
May 14, 2012
May 12, 2012
"Yes Robin, I've become a human 'fish'!"
The interesting book Comics: Between the Panels has a look at amusing comic book covers from yesteryear. For instance, this 1958 issue of Batman #118 (Merman Batman!) provides a chuckle.
But if you want some REAL comic fun, than More Fun Comics (#54, 1940) is for you.
Yeesh.
Crime comics provide smirks of a more pained variety, to wit, this snappy repartee from Headline Comics (#29, 1948).
"Sorry fella! We're hired killers! In our business, we don't make lasting friendships!"
Two more increasingly reprehensible examples after the break.
On the other end of the morality spectrum was the lurid Law Breakers Suspense Stories (#11, 1953).
"I know you are a mute, Miss Kimberly, but even if you COULD yell, the people downstairs couldn't call the police, you see . . . I already cut all their tongues out!"
Yeesh. And to think this was on newsstands in the 1950s.
