![]() ![]() He has worked in children's humour and girls' adventure comics, but is most notable for his boys' adventure comics he helped launch Battle Picture Weekly (1975), for which he wrote "Darkie's Mob", and 2000 AD (1977), for which he created numerous characters, including Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Robo-Hunter and Button Man. in the late 1960s before becoming a freelance writer and a staff editor at IPC in the 1970s. Wagner started his career in editorial with D. He is the co-creator, with artist Carlos Ezquerra, of the character Judge Dredd. Alongside Pat Mills, he helped revitalise British comics in the 1970s, and continues to be active in the British comics industry, occasionally also working in American comics. ![]() ![]() John Wagner (born 1949) is an American-born British comics writer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Upon the death of her husband, Sarah, a bright young woman from New Haven, Connecticut, instantly became one of the wealthiest women in the world. Some historians believe she initially bought the San Jose farmhouse with an eye for expansion - as the family’s wealthiest member, she could afford to build a place to house them all. Her brother-in-law was the president of Mills College, and two of her sisters already lived in the Bay Area. After the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester, of tuberculosis in 1881, Sarah decided to leave the East Coast to be with family. Although legend would have you believe Winchester was on the run from an army of ghosts, the reason for her move was familial, not supernatural. The myth of Sarah Winchester begins in 1895, over a decade after Winchester bought a modest farmhouse in San Jose. The insanity of Sarah Winchester is, in short, a lie. ![]() ![]() ![]() So while I hummed and while I hawed, Mary asked me to take her home. ![]() ![]() I couldn't say anything as straight as a stick. But for all my big talk, I was a blusher, a gulper. The erotic high-style in the back bar of an Oirish pub. I could feel it written all over my face. I think I thought I should take her home.Īnd the special way she looked at me could have been nothing compared with the special way I felt myself look at her. Then there was something in the tilt of her head as she refused my cigarettes and lit her own. Way she looked at me, sloe-eyed, speculative, without warmth. In the end she just sat across from me in Chuckie's vacant seat whenever she had a quiet moment. Then she had begun the amiable waitress routine, teasing me as she served us our drinks. I'm sure she understood that this would make me fall in love with her. She bristled and showed me her sharp little spines. Maybe a lot of men might have suspected some reluctant attraction - me, I just thought she wanted to kill me and didn'tīother to wonder why. In a bar full of waitresses, Mary had been one among many but I'd more than noticed her. I had known her three hours and I was gettingĬhuckie Lurgan had sloped out of there half an hour previously after gracefully running out of cash and twenty minutes' worth of heavy hints from me. She had short hair, a very round ass and the big eyes of a hapless child. I was in a bar making talk with a waitress called Mary. It was a late Friday night, six months ago, six months since Sarah had left. ![]() ![]() ![]() While I could tell right away why Lawhon employed this storytelling tool, there were times the Anna storyline was confusing. Eventually, the two timelines merge to that fateful day in 1918. Anna Anderson’s story is told in reverse, starting when she’s living in Charlottesville, Va., in the 1970s. There are two storylines, one is from the first-person perspective of Anastasia 18 months before her family’s execution. However, there are some storytelling choices Lawhon made that you should know going into the novel. Trust me, even if you think you know the Anastasia Romanov/Anna Anderson stories, you’ll learn something new. But this is the first time I’ve read a historical fiction novel on the subject and it was different than I expected but I very much enjoyed it. ![]() I mentioned in my preview that I’m fascinated with the Romanovs and the historical mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() These days a new McEwan is a big deal – not for nothing was Private Eye able to satirise those mid-year “What I’m reading on my holidays” newspaper columns by having each high- to low-brow interviewee pick Sweet Tooth: “I haven’t read it yet, but I’m told it’s a masterpiece.” It seems extraordinary now that the author of the Booker Prize-winning Amsterdam, and the not-prizewinning-yet-rather-more-deserving Atonement and Enduring Love, should have fallen between the cracks. The real reason for sidelining McEwan was more prosaic: in 1997, The Child in Time was out of print. At the time this somehow added to the faint air of the counter-cultural the author enjoyed (I was an unworldly undergrad, but I still knew McEwan was one of the “bad boys” of contemporary fiction). Our lecturer told us we wouldn’t lose marks if we didn’t read or attend tutorials on The Child in Time, McEwan’s 1987 novel. Back in 1997, when I first read Ian McEwan as part of my first-year English Literature class, something odd had happened. ![]() ![]() It must include the universal and mystical aspect of which Plato, Kepler, Rameau, and Novalis wrote, and of which Wagner said: "I feel that I am one with this vibrating Force, that it is omniscient, and that I can draw upon it to an extent that is limited only by my own capacity." The spiritual power of music surfaces in folklore, myth, and mystical experience, embracing heaven and earth, heard as well as unheard harmonies. Musicians and lovers of music-all those who have ever reflected on its inner reality-feel that a true philosophy of music cannot deal with physics and psychology alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() MUSIC / PHILOSOPHY What lies beneath the surface of music and what gives it its transcendent power? For many people, music is the primary catalyst for experiences of expanded consciousness. ![]() ![]() ![]() So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. I’m out, we’re all out-and I didn’t even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. ![]() But it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls.Īnd now the impossible dream has come true. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. ![]() The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Paste, Publishers Weekly Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe Biden is set to hold critical talks on support for Ukraine with Rishi Sunak, and Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen this week. The two groups offered to meet Mr Gladkov for talks and a potential handover of two captive Russian soldiers, but he rejected their offer. It comes just a day after Denis Nikitin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, appeared in a joint video statement by the RDK and the other militant group, Freedom of Russia Legion, Sky News has not been able to independently verify the clips. In another, a soldier is recorded as he moves through a deserted street. "Since cannot control his territory, we will talk with his leaders, who are in Moscow," they said. Two fighters face the camera: one holding the blue flag of the RDK while another says the group was the only force left in the town. In a video posted by the RDK, at least four fighters are shown on a residential road near the southern outskirts of Nova Tavolzhanka, about a mile from the border of Ukraine's Kharkiv. ![]() ![]() The border area has come under a number of attacks in recent weeks, with Russia blaming Ukraine, Kyiv denying it's behind them, and two pro-Ukrainian militant groups, one being the RDK, claiming responsibility. A group of pro-Ukraine rebels known as the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), has posted videos claiming to be in control of Nova Tavolzhanka in Russia's Belgorod region. ![]() ![]() "A genius who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine" ( The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history's keenest observers of human nature and civilization. ![]() one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" ( Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world"Īldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order-all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hey there! Im going to screen record the stories, I'll PM you when it's done (I can't figure out how to record the videos one with audio) It shows so much about her character that she can't for one whole moment go "I see that my actions have caused hurt, I wholeheartedly apologise". And let's not forget how weirdly attached she is to all of us! Although I'm not sure if she's more parasitic than parasocial. This is one of my biggest issues with Alex. ![]() Until, of course, it clearly became very much about Alex's safety and comfort and nobody else's. ("Hello, dear friends!!" the side quest vlogs, the Discord, etc). Alex actively courted parasocial attachments and pushed for people to feel like they were safe and understood on her part of the internet. It's obviously caught a lot of people, judging by posts on here and Reddit. I get attached to creators as weird as that is, and Alex was someone I felt like was a safe person, was someone I felt like I could enjoy their content and not be hurt, and I was so wrong.Īttachment isn't especially weird in the case of this "Pretty Pastel Persona" creator, so don't feel like that's especially on you either. ![]() |