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I wasn't terribly impressed by it myself, but to be fair I only read the first issue before deciding I wasn't reading any more of it.

No his father isn't particularly famous he is a writer but any fame he has is mostly by association with his son.

 

He is listed in the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Gibson

He is rather noted in some circles as a holocaust denier, though.

 

Of course but I believe his level of notoriety is due to the fact that he is the father of a Hollywood star. Were he not the father of Mel Gibson I for one would not know he was a holocaust denier and neither would many others.

 

The number of people that are aware of his anti-semitism is exponential greater than it would be but for the fame of his son.

Very true, that. The only way he'd get anything like as much publicity for the crap he spouts without his son's career to provide publicity would be the "Nazi" Fred Cowan approach...

It's anarcho-sociological thriller satire whatnot.

 

 

Without Chesterton, there would be no Gaiman. ( iknow that for some that is not a glowing recommendation, but still...)

 

I have spoken.

 

 

Here :

 

http://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/gkc/

Big influence on Terry Pratchett as well, apparently.

Top notch, it's one of my favorites.

 

Also - Father Brown stories, Club of Queer Trades, and his Autobiography.

Thanks, I'll have a look at it when I've finished this Silverberg, then.

Hey, Carm. How's yer Infantino?

 

I am currently in my Chesterton mood again, so if you haven't read Napoleon of Notting Hill, i heartily recommend it.

 

 

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oooh, Bierce is also good for one's mind.

What do you make of The Man Who Was Thursday? I acquired that one on my last trawl through Hay on Wye, but haven't got around to reading it yet.

No his father isn't particularly famous he is a writer but any fame he has is mostly by association with his son.

 

He is listed in the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Gibson

He is rather noted in some circles as a holocaust denier, though.

I've never beaten any five year olds, but I can juggle three of them at once.

Now that's more like it. Good luck DogPoet.

Thanks.

If we're still doing recommendations:

The Arabian Nightmare (Robert Irwin)

The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)

(Amaze Ink/Slave Labour Graphics and Sirius both seem to be missing as well.)

Out of that lot, probably Vertigo.

Just started the Book Of Skulls by Robert Silverberg.

He sure does James. Check out his sig to find out more details.

One can even get a copy from Amazon now: Amazon have finally got their act together.

You can't go wrong with Pynchon!

 

Unless you buy Mason & Dixon! Which I rather enjoyed, but it's not accessible enough to read through comfortably and not rewarding enough to make me want to bother struggling. I think I got about halfway through.

You surprise me: it's a much better read than Vineland. Have you read any of his other stuff?

Dogpoet has a book?

Didn't I mention it before now?

Josh-I was referring to your comments about homosexual sexual politics.

 

Dog Poet-This may be true, but at the same time, isn't it an attempt to integrate homosexual culture more and more into mainstream culture, which would eventually lead to its acceptance?

 

Is wanting to look good necessarily an exclusively homosexual province?

 

Certainly not.

But, isn't it the feeling that metrosexual styles are moving towards what's considered to be homosexual aspects of the masculine persona?

While it all comes downs to generalizations and stereotypes, isn't that the view society currently has of homosexuals?

The wacky next door neighbour on that popular TV show being the way to best example of society attempting to tolerate (mark that I say tolerate) the thought of homosexuals becoming more mainstream? (forgive me. I couldn't care less about popular culture to figure out which TV show features a flamboyant, stereotypically homosexual wacky neighbour. Maybe they all do by now?)

By embracing this metrosexual style over the typical male ideal of "He don't care. He like hard work. Cars good. Me sweaty. Let's have sex, watch sports, and laugh at toilet humour.", it does leave more room for homosexual culture to be embraced by the mainstream culture.

Equally, one could argue that "metrosexual" is itself a dismissive or even pejorative term, though.

The situation with Amazon now seems to be resolved, and not before time.

But it's ideal Vertigo material.

 

Just so long as it involves lesbians and lots of brown on the page.

For heaven's sake: even Vertigo probably draw the line at lesbian coprophillia.

I think the Daily Mail already have it in for me. :icon_frown:

They have it in for everybody who doesn't live in the home counties, as far as I can make out. Strange paper.

Mr. Punch was a mature readers' comic, while Coraline was written for children.

It's a Lovecraft story for the kiddies, really and there's nothing wrong with that.

Actually, now that I think about it, I didn't buy the issue of Heavy Metal featuring Milo Manara's "Gullivera" because I thought the dialogue and the plot would crackle with wit, insight and tension so that's one instance of the art taking precedence at least.

I didn't think the script for Judgement on Gotham was all that bad (parts of it are hilarious and it's a lot better than the second one) whereas a lot of the artwork looked unfinished as Bisley's painted stuff often does: incredible splash pages and wonderful composition but some bits of of it are rather crudely executed, particularly compared to the rest.

I'm struggling to think of a crap story/nice art comic I can really talk up here myself: I like Tom Coker's stuff but not enough to tolerate the rest of Blood And Water, and I haven't even looked at the Chaykin drawn Hawkgirl...

It should at least get a mention - he tried to get an interview with Millar, and apparently got turned down pretty bluntly.

That'll get a mention, I suspect. Morrison could possibly ask him to sit on the details if it's an approved biography, though one would hope not.

It's a lot better than merely okay, spider.

I think he meant the shop.

In which case it's greatly to his credit, then.

I don't know the details, and apparently it's not something either of them has spoken about much publicly (although it was, if I recall correctly, acknowledged obliquely in a response to an audience question at a con at some point) - it was something mentioned on another board by a guy who's been working on a Morrison biography for the last few years.

Right, one of those eternal mysteries, then. Thanks Mark. Hopefully it'll be in the biography when that appears.