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GARY HOLLINGSBEE

Work: English teacher
Interests: literature, creativity, writing, digital tech, comic books, electronic music
Lives: South-East Albion

2021

– January (6)

2020

+ December (18)
+ November (29)
+ October (5)
+ September (4)
+ August (16)
+ July (17)
+ June (5)
+ April (5)
+ March (16)
+ February (2)
+ January (23)

2019

+ October (2)
+ September (1)
+ August (1)
+ July (5)
+ June (7)
+ May (1)
+ April (5)

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Battlestar Galactica novelisation. 99p find on eba

Battlestar Galactica novelisation. 99p find on ebay. I read this when I was 9. (I’m reluctant to re-read because I simply know it won’t be as good as I remember).

Finally! Micronauts vol 1 #59. Taken about 5 weeks

Finally! Micronauts vol 1 #59.
Taken about 5 weeks to arrive from Canada. It’s the final issue of the first volume and the final issue I needed to complete my run of all Marvel’s Micronauts (though not strictly true: I’m on the lookout for the special editions which reprinted the first 12 issues).
#micronauts

I’m reminded how good Tyler Crook’s art is in

I’m reminded how good Tyler Crook’s art is in Colonel Weird: Cosmogog. Time travel, aliens and a little boy who’s always been an outsider.

Finished rebagging the entire Micronauts run. Miss

Finished rebagging the entire Micronauts run. Missing #59, the final issue of the first series and #51 has damage to the cover. Now going to do an issue-by-issue close read (no, not tonight, over the next while). #micronauts

Thank you @getreadycomics. This week’s comics ar

Thank you @getreadycomics. This week’s comics arrived super-fast! Really appreciate it, wish you the best over Lockdown and hope everyone is getting their orders online to help you out.

Received this today: The Sandman Deluxe vol 1. I r

Received this today: The Sandman Deluxe vol 1. I read Gaiman’s Sandman in the late 1990s and haven’t reread since. The deluxe edition is great - very similar to the Fables ones - with the exception that the dustjacket has a fake “sticker” on the front advertising the Audible series. From my point of view, it makes this edition look cheap (and it’s not!).
#thesandman

Jan and Soren. We went for a long walk today aimin

Jan and Soren. We went for a long walk today aiming to get to Chartwell and back to Westerham but got a little off course.

“Of all the tales told on these islands, few are

“Of all the tales told on these islands, few are as strange as that of William Palmer...”
New Pilgrim episodes by Sebastian Baczkiewicz beginning on Friday. Pilgrim is one of my favourite things ever! I’ll be listening to it as soon as work is over!
#pilgrim #bbc #radio4

My re-read of Umbrella Academy has waited until vo

My re-read of Umbrella Academy has waited until vol 3 was released. Picked up Hotel Oblivion today so will start this week. It’s a long time since I read the original issues when they were released. I’m hoping the tv series hasn’t put me off Umbrella Academy as much as I think it has (the tv series is TERRIBLE!).
#umbrellaacademy

Absolute Swamp Thing vol 1. Have wanted this (or t

Absolute Swamp Thing vol 1.
Have wanted this (or the hardcover smaller volumes) for absolutely ages. Finally found this reasonably-priced copy. I actually bought these issues when they came out in the 1980s. #swampthing

This was the treat of the week: modern artists rei

This was the treat of the week: modern artists reimagining Giant-Sized X-Men 1 from Len Wein’s original script. (Apart from one obviously out-of-character page) It’s brilliant. This 45 years old story knocks the sock off the decompressed and over-extended comics of today.

#xmencomics

These single issue reprints of the first issue of

These single issue reprints of the first issue of #Marvel heroes are fantastic. It’s the closest thing to feeling what it was like reading them for the first time. (I’d much prefer the inside pages to replicate the paper stock of the 1960s but I guess glossy is what modern readers are more wiling to buy).

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