![]() As writer Layman told Paste, they’re “a great way to get attention.” This isn’t the first time Layman has done an unlikely crossover his long-running creator-owned series Chew (with artist Rob Guillory) joined with fellow Image series Revival in 2014. But innovation likely isn’t the initial motivation for such mash-ups. On paper, such comics should be a clusterfuck, but in reality they often yield inventive, bizarre narratives that stretch the boundaries of the medium. The Dark Horse title, written by John Layman and illustrated by Chris Mooneyham, is further proof that corporate properties get a lot more interesting when smashed together. Predator and the new four-issue series Predator vs. ![]() But when such intra-company meet-ups run dry, the corporate overlords of Hollywood should look to an unlikely source for inspiration: crazy multi-property crossovers, such as Batman/Teenage Mutant Turtles, Transformers vs. In comic-book movies, a certain giddiness still erupts when a starry-eyed Ant-Man meets square-jawed Captain America, or when Wonder Woman interrupts the Batman/Superman bro-fest. ![]()
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![]() She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD - a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. By the age of thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: she had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. I want to have words for what my bones know. ![]() Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. Print What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex TraumaĪ searing memoir of reckoning and healing which investigates the little-understood science behind complex PTSD. ![]() ![]() An ode to Myles’ 16 years with their beloved pitbull, Rosie, Afterglow opens with Rosie’s decline and death and thereafter wanders through time and space, itself like the unhurried ambling of a dog. To help a beloved dog die is the final act of this kind of care.Įileen Myles’ extraordinary Afterglow (a dog memoir) emerges from the wound of this loss. But caring for a dog means speaking on behalf of an animal who cannot speak. This is what haunts me: the anticipation of a death for which I’ll bear ultimate responsibility. Assuming good health and good fortune, my fiancée and I will decide the time of her end. It’s not just that it’s nearer or that I’ll live to the other side, where silence will replace the dashing of her paws across the floors. ![]() Fear of my dog’s death preoccupies me more than fear of my own. ![]() ![]() ![]() The question being debated is: does a God who created and designed the universe, who has all the traditional properties of God, such as omniscience, omnipotence, omni-benevolence, etc. All arguments that assume specific theological or moral doctrines or specific religious history are irrelevant to a debate on generic theism. ![]() Now the important thing to remember about a generic debate on whether GOD EXISTS is that there should be no mention of any particular God, such as the Christian God, and no mention of the history of any particular religion. The audio from that debate is here, at Brian Auten’s Apologetics 315 site. I used his opening speech from his debate with Frank Turek. I thought that I would go over an opening statement from a previous debate featuring Christopher Hitchens to find out what atheists are like in debates. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() And when I was younger, oh, I used to catch this bus into school and the bus would go past the Roman Walls of Colchester - so it's all around us, really. ![]() Most of them have been knocked down and dug up since, but there's a lot here that you can just walk around and look at. There are a lot of Roman remains in Britain. Tell us how you learned all the fine details about the Roman Empire and let me warn you in advance if you say, oh, it's all on the Internet, I'm going to be very disappointed. RUTH DOWNIE (Author, "Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire"): Oh, thanks for inviting me, Scott. Downie, thanks very much for being with us. Ruth Downie joins us from the studios of the BBC in Northampton, England. Ruth Downie's new book, her first novel, is called "Medicus." It's an English murder mystery set in the ancient Roman Empire and inflected with British wit. And in a moment of unexpected generosity Ruso is moved to buy a pathetic slave girl, Tilla, who has a broken arm and he finds himself investigating the deaths of prostitutes who had worked out of a local tavern. ![]() ![]() The provincial outpost is Britannia, which is now Chester, England. Worst of all, the food stinks, literally. He's an officer, an army doctor of the Roman Empire who feels cast adrift in a place teeming with squalid beggars, importuning pimps, currish dogs, unbathed slaves with matted hair and locals with thick, funny accents. ![]() Gaius Petrius Ruso was a man of education and elegance doing his duty in a savage land. ![]() ![]() In this instalment, Lynette explores trust and fidelity within the bounds of good versus evil. Described as a game changer to young adult fiction ', Lynette Noni 's Medoran Chronicles continue to impress new and existing fans with Book Four. In the novel 's climax, armies collide in Graevale as Aven mounts his attack on Alex and the city.Alex learns confronting truths about life, love, trust and sacrifice. In an effort to warn them of the wars to come, Alex undergoes a dangerous testing that risks not only her life, but also all of those in Medora. They reside in Graevale, a monochromatic city that is both day and night, stormy and pleasant. Because if the prince follows through on his promise to purge the land of mortals, everyone 's days are numbered.Proving the most difficult to convince, however, are the Shadow Walkers, a mysterious and dark-cloaked people with grey skin who travel via shadows. From the humans of Tryllin, to the Jarnocks of the treetop city Maroo and the Flips of the Undersea Islands, Alex appeals to foreign leaders for help in saving the whole of Medora. ![]() ![]() To save her newfound home, she must embark on a journey with her friends to unite the races of Medora against the rising threat of rebel Prince Aven Dalmarta. In her third year at Akarnae Academy for the gifted, Alexandra Jennings knows now more than ever that there is danger looming over the school campus and beyond. ![]() ![]() ![]() *Tickets are $10 (plus a small processing fee). IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, "Lessons in Chemistry" is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. ![]() She’s daring them to change the status quo. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. True chemistry results.īut like science, life is unpredictable. Except for one: Calvin Evans the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with-of all things-her mind. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. Tickets for this event are $10 (plus a small processing fee) and are available on Eventbrite.Ĭhemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. Bonnie Garmus will speak about and sign her book, "Lessons in Chemistry," on Wednesday, May 3rd at 6:30pm, at First Congregational Church (1128 Pine St.). Lessons in Chemistry went on to be one of the books of Frankfurt Book Fair in 2020 (after a last-minute title change it was originally Introduction to Chemistry, which everyone thought was. ![]() ![]() In the original, a lot of the sub-plot revolves around Lizzie's sister Jane and her romance with Mr Bingham. It was interesting to see Darcy being the successful and independent businesswoman who has never had time to find real love, while Luke has never left Pemberley and has four brothers to contend with. ![]() The gender-swapping aspect of the novel actually worked really well. ![]() Sparks fly and before you know it Darcy has fallen heard for her own small town guy. At her family's Christmas party she meets Luke Bennet, who she once went to school. ![]() When her mother is taken seriously ill, she returns home to her family for Christmas - the first time in years that she has returned Pemberley. She has the means to buy anything she could want, but the one thing she has failed to attain so far is love. She is a successful partner in a New York hedge fund and is extremely wealthy. Yes, that took me a minute to wrap my head around too. The main character Darcy Fitzwilliam, is now a woman. For the most part, I really enjoyed it, although there was never any doubt that Austen's original would be knocked off its perch. Pride and Prejudice is one of my all-time favourite classics and I was curious to see how Melissa De La Cruz was going to put a fresh spin on the story. ![]() I wasn't sure what to expect from this book when I first picked it up. A contemporary Pride and Prejudice retelling with a difference, involving gender swapping and a small town place called Pemberley, Ohio. ![]() ![]() ![]() The film won more than twenty awards, including three Academy Awards for its technical achievements in visual effects and sound design. ![]() Steven Spielberg directed the 1993 blockbuster film adaptation its ground-breaking visual effects brought Crichton's terrifying dinosaurs to computer-generated cinematic life. "A superior specimen of the myth, and easily the best of Crichton's novels to date" (New York Times), Jurassic Park definitively established its author as "the most commercially successful science fiction writer of all time" (Robinson, 208)-although, ironically, he is rarely labeled a genre author. Boldly signed the illustrator Chip Kidd on the front panel. First edition of the 25th anniversary of the deluxe junior novelization of Crichton’s gripping, bestselling scientific thriller. ![]() |