![]() Hilarious!" - Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog Man They sound like the Bad Guys, they look like the Bad Guys. ![]() ![]() The third laugh-out-loud Bad Guys episode by award-winning creator Aaron Blabey, now in full colour. We challenge anyone to read this and keep a straight face." - Kirkus Reviews And the nasty little furball wants revenge! Will they survive? Will they be heroes? And will they ever stop trying to eat each other?!?It's time for the Bad Guys to spring into action! ABOUT THE SERIES Full of hilarious line illustrations throughout Fans of Dog Man, Cat Kid and Captain Underpants will love this series Perfect for children who a struggling with reading - or who just want to laugh their socks off Praise for The Bad Guys: "his book instantly joins the classic ranks of Captain Underpants. Wolf and his bad buddies have messed with the wrong guinea pig - one who is secretly an evil mad scientist. ![]() But Mr Wolf, Mr Piranha, Mr Snake and Mr Shark are about to change all of that - whether you want them to or not! The Bad Guys are about to have a very BAD day! Mr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() If you fall to your knees three times it’s over. ![]() In order to protect fighters many bouts have a three knockdown rule. If this was in fact a boxing match then technically the referee could have ended it by now. Y’all, it feels like this thru-hike is knocking me out! After suffering Norovirus, after losing Sapling… we’ll, now I’m dealing with yet another setback in the form of a torn muscle in my lower left leg. He went the distance, meaning he didn’t get Knocked Out by the undefeated champion Apollo Creed. But he did manage to do something no other fighter had done before. Spoiler Alert from the original 1977 film: Rocky loses. They were cool, exciting and had a singular message throughout them all- that if you pour your heart and soul into any endeavor, no matter how badly the odds are stacked against you, you’ll come away from the experience better for having tried. When the Rocky movies were at their peak in popularity they served to influence a lot of kids my age. My career trajectory consisted of 5 main events: I went to the mall to see the greatest movie of all time, Rocky III I walked out of the theater and straight into the sporting goods store across from it to buy a cheap pair of boxing gloves I visited the record shop to pick up a 45 RPM recording of Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” I went home to begin training and finally I retired with a record of 0 Wins- 0 Losses- and 1 Draw. In the summer of 1982 I was 15 years old and took up boxing. ![]() Stjepan sejic aphrodite ix7/4/2023 ![]() #Reading list is Aphrodite IX - Sideways - Daredevil - Venom - more Supergirl - Laila Starr - Street Angel - Chew. #Mandela effect 24/7/365 in the comics fandom. #.people somehow come away with mutually exclusive interpretations of what happened? #Not just comic newbies but also those who style themselves as comic experts. ![]() Aphrodite IX is both an anachronism and advanced technology in a world that she no longer recognizes. #But even when just discussing a singular standalone book like Cry for Blood or UtRH or Woman of Tomorrow. Hundreds of years after a cataclysmic event scorched the surface of the planet, Earth and its inhabitants have been forever altered and new landscapes and political struggles have taken hold between two factions fighting for control. #Though I have been reading through the lengthier O'Neil and Moench runs. #Usually I read those 'sampler' trades with a bunch of different one-shot stories. #Any comics writers who present their perspective as the Objective Definitive Interpretation are utter hacks. ![]() #comics #comic books #DC Comics #Any comics fans who present their perspective as the Objective Definitive Interpretation are utter hacks. I want to cradle a few of you in my lap and hand-feed you grapes. #Maniacs who read decades worth of comics and come out with completely different interpretations compared to others who read the same thing. ![]() ![]() Marie Benedict’s novel is beautiful and sympathetic, a far less traditional look at mysteries and a fresh look at one of the most famous writers in the world. ![]() When a woman vanishes into the life that early twentieth century England expects for her, as a wife and mother and nothing else, is it really any surprise when she vanishes completely? ![]() Author Agatha Christie went missing one cold. In some chapters, the novel feels slow, but at its best it is poignant and quietly aching. Christie: A Novel and read 2 reviews with a 5/5 star rating at Bas Bleu. It doesn’t solve the mystery so much as illustrate it. Christie looks at the matter from two angles: Agatha’s point of view during the years of her unhappy marriage, and her husband’s in the days after her disappearance. That doesn’t mean people will stop speculating. It’s possible we may never know what really occurred. ![]() Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car - strange for a frigid night. What happened during those days has been explored in various media, from other books to Doctor Who. In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. When she was found, she had no memory of the days she was gone. ![]() For several days in December 1926, Christie disappeared from her home, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. While this may not always be true, it definitely is in the case of Agatha Christie. ![]() Louis riel by chester brown7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not hyperbole: each of his major works Ed the Happy Clown, I Never Liked You, and The Playboy have broken new artistic ground in their different ways. To some Louis Riel was one of the founding fathers of a. ![]() Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, an embattled figure in Canadian history, regarded by some as a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer. Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography is yet another landmark work by Chester Brown, an artist considered to be one of the greatest cartoonists living today. Legendary cartoonist Chester Brown reveals in the dusty closet of Canadian history there are some skeletons that wont stop rattling. Brown won the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Metis leader's life. ![]() 2 minutes ago - ▶️▶️ COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD ▶️▶️Ĭhester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel. Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing. ![]() Perelandra cs lewis7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() What is more astounding, is the fact that the Perelandra Opera was the brainchild of none other than Donald Swann (of “Flanders and Swann” fame). ![]() It is surprising to learn, therefore, that Perelandra already has. Some may have wondered if and when any of his space tales might undergo the same treatment. While most of Lewis’ readership will have heard of and are familiar with these tales of interplanetary travels written back when such would have been considered as much a fantasy as travels through a wardrobe to Narnia, it is little known that the second of Lewis’ works, Perelandra (or Voyage to Venus) was made into an opera in the 1960s.ĭuring the years since Lewis first penned the tales of Narnia, these works (and in particular his first, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) have been adapted into numerous stage shows, musicals, audio editions and films. While CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy is somewhat less well known than The Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis fans around the world recognise the brilliance of these beautiful science fiction tales that show a whole different side of Lewis’ creative genius, especially as he writes for an older audience. ![]() Year of yes book7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Laird Barron, and in Wastelands, Vol 2, among others. It's anthologized in Best American Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as the 20 editions of Rich Horton's The Year's Best Fantasy & Science Fiction, & Paula Guran's 2013 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, in The Year's Best Weird Volume 1, ed. Her Nebula,Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy award-nominated short fiction has appeared on Tor.com, and in The Toast, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Apex, The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Subterranean Online, Glitter & Mayhem and Jurassic London's The Lowest Heaven and The Book of the Dead, Uncanny, Shimmer, and more. ![]() With Neil Gaiman, she is the New York Times-bestselling co-editor of the monster anthology UNNATURAL CREATURES, benefitting 826DC. As well, she is the author of the young adult skyship novels MAGONIA and AERIE from HarperCollins, the dark fantasy/alt-history novel QUEEN OF KINGS, the internationally bestselling memoir THE YEAR OF YES, and THE END OF THE SENTENCE, a novella co-written with Kat Howard, from Subterranean. Upcoming in 2019 is a new translation of BEOWULF, also from FSG. Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of, most recently, THE MERE WIFE (out Jfrom MCD/FSG). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I looked at their photos today and searched their eyes for depression and desperation. Paul Eherenfest (1880–1933) killed himself nearly thirty years later. It wasn’t his first suicide attempt, but it was his most successful. Despondent, fearing disintegration of his theories, he hanged himself in 1906. Opposition to his ideas was harsh and his moods were volatile. Over a century ago the Viennese-born mathematician Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) invented statistical mechanics, a powerful description of atomic behaviour based on probabilities. When I can, I like to forget about maths and grants and science and journals and research and heroes.īoltzmann is the one I remember most and his student Ehrenfest. I’d like to describe what I can see from here, so you can look with me and ease the solitude, but I never feel like giving rousing speeches about billions of stars and the glory of the cosmos. The lore is that their theories drove them mad, though I suspect they were just lonely, isolated by what they knew. ![]() Some of the great mathematicians killed themselves. The following is an excerpt from Janna Levin's 2002 book How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space -a personal account of her life and ideas in the form of unsent letters to her mother-republished by Princeton University Press on January 10th, 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The heart is a lipstick rose-iris powder, very pink, very feminine and rather pretty, and considerably quieter than the opening. The top notes are a sweet 'n fruity blend, rather loud, cut by a touch of citrus and saved from toothache - just barely -by mild leather notes peeking through from the base (the notes: bergamot, Bulgarian rose, iris, patchouli, leather and vanilla). Ah well.ĭonna is the feminine counterpart to last year's Valentino Uomo, and it maintains that scent's emphasis on sugar, or to put it as Kevin did in his review, loads of sugar, at least in the opening. al.) and you were hoping for more candied iris powder, do try Valentino's new-ish Donna, which I'd call the latest in the series except that I'm so far behind that Donna has been out for months and there are probably umpteen new fragrances in the same vein that I haven't even smelled yet. If you adored Lancôme La Vie Est Belle 1 or any of its various spawn ( Giorgio Armani Sì, Nina Ricci L’Extase, Salvatore Ferragamo Emozione et. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon Ingrid and Joanna confront similar dilemmas, and the Beauchamp women realize they can no longer conceal their true selves. But then Freya, who is about to get married to the wealthy and mysterious Bran Gardiner, finds that her increasingly complicated romantic life makes it more difficult than ever to hide her secret. And finally, there's Freya, the wild child, who has a charm or a potion that can cure most any heartache.įor centuries, all three women have been forced to suppress their abilities. Ingrid, her bookish daughter, has the ability to predict the future and weave knots that can solve anything from infertility to infidelity. Joanna can resurrect people from the dead and heal the most serious of injuries. ![]() But they are harboring a mighty secret-they are powerful witches banned from using their magic. Their beautiful, mist-shrouded town seems almost stuck in time, and all three women lead seemingly quiet, uneventful existences. The three Beauchamp women-Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid, live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz ![]() |