Avengers Forever: a second opinion
A not-quite rebuttal to the assertion by fellow AJSer Greg Burgas that you *should* own Avengers Forever.
Author: Edo Bosnar
Marvel Comics Digests: a post-mortem
For about a year, we were treated to digests from Marvel; here’s a rundown of what we got.
Successfully scratched itches
Following the lead of another Atomic Junk Shop regular who wrote about some itches that took years to be scratched, I take a look at a few comics stories that left itches I only managed to scratch decades after the fact
Recommended reading: Joe Kubert’s Yossel
A book recommendation for International Holocaust Remembrance Day…
Ursula Le Guin as a YA writer
Taking a cue from a fellow AJS-er, I consider various books by my favorite author, Ursula K. LeGuin, as a literary on-ramp for younger readers.
John D. MacDonald – SF writer?
Before he gained fame writing thrillers and his well-regarded Travis McGee books, John D. MacDonald was also quite a prolific writer of science fiction. He wrote three novels, and published dozens of stories in the pulp magazines.
That time Philip K. Dick wrote a children’s book
A little known, or at least often overlooked fact, is that back in the mid-1960s, Philip K. Dick wrote a children’s novel that was only published posthumously in the 1980s. I read it recently, and decided to share my thoughts on it.