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Secret Skin – An essay in unitard theory: Michael Chabon writing in the New Yorker about Superhero Costumes (from March 10, 2008 – found on wikipedia)
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Blasphemy 2
While everyone was prepping to write Doctor Who spoilers, I went to see Robert Downey Junior take on another substance-abusing superhero in Guy Ritchie’s The Odd Couple.
I mean Sherlock Holmes. And your moaning about how noncanonical it is?
I’m sorry, I can’t hear it over the sound of the AWESOME.
(Although if someone wanted another Jeremy Brett version, they might have cast Mark Strong in the title role instead of as the Aleister Crowley -esque villain).
However, I did wear my Doctor Blasphemy T-Shirt to the cinema :-)
The doorbell woke me this morning with a postman delivering a package: the Maximortal graphic novel and a Doctor Blasphemy T-Shirt I’d bought in December. Cool beans:
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Best of the year in… book covers
Joseph Sullivan’s Favorite book covers of 2009 at The Book Design Review blog (see also other lists in his links).