![]() For the past couple of decades, it seems like the ideal for superhero comics is grim and nihilistic nonsense, that “maturity” is measured in blood and bodycount. However, it seemed like the industry learnt all the wrong lessons from the success of Frank Miller and Alan Moore. ![]() Books like The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen proved that it was possible to craft mature tales with incredible depth using these icons. Superhero comic books have had a somewhat rocky relationship with the concept of “growing up” since the mid-eighties. ![]() I’m also writing a series of reviews of the classic X-Men television show at comicbuzz every weekday, so feel free to check those out. ![]() To celebrate the release of The Wolverine later in the month, we’re taking a look at some classic X-Men and Wolverine comics every Monday, Wednesday and Friday here. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Who does the old man woman say the man looked like? Old man Brown What does Goody Cloyse say is missing and what does she think happened to it? Broom Stick- That Goody Cloyse took it What did Goody Cloyse anoint herself with to get ready for the night? Juice of smallage, cinque, wolfs bone, fine wheat, fat of a newborn babe. Who was the dame that Goodman Brown recognized and what had she taught him? Goody Cloyse-Catechism. ![]() Goodman Brown says that if he goes on with the man who will he be unable to face? Minister of Salem. How did this man help Goodman Brown's father? Gave him a pitch-pine knot, to set fire to an Indian Village. How did this man help Goodman Brown's grandfather? Help him lash the Quaker woman through the streets of Salem. Who were the first two people Goodman Brown said would have never gone down this path? Father and Grandfather of Goodman Brown. Why does Goodman Brown come to a complete stop? To return from where he came- he has scruples. What did it look like? A great black snake. ![]() ![]() ![]() These encounters were not easily resolved into the separate categories of heterosexual-homosexual instead they were fluid and evolved over time. ![]() He draws on court records to retrieve a largely hidden history of “stranger intimacy”: impermanent associations and transient relationships that existed alongside or replaced diasporic kinship networks that extended back across the Pacific Ocean to the Punjab, the Sindh, Gujarat, or Bengal. In a rich addition to a growing body of literature that seeks to problematize and interrogate the simpler binaries around which migration histories have often been constructed (including the categories of legal-illegal and citizen-alien), Nayan Shah traces the movement of pre–World War II migrant labor from South Asia to the North American West. ![]() ![]() He stresses that humans do not need the rich foods and luxury items they have been taught to crave. Thoreau advocates for a simple, primarily plant-based diet. Hoping to demonstrate that it is possible to live well with very little money, he provides a painstaking account of everything he spends. Instead of purchasing food, he forages in the woods and grows beans and vegetables. Instead of renting, he builds his own home. Thoreau resists this life by casting aside all unnecessary luxuries. ![]() He believes that most men spend their lives in a state of “quiet desperation” (14), numbly toiling away just to pay for their food and homes. ![]() He explains that capitalism hypnotizes men into pursuing empty status symbols and fleeting pleasures that remove them from their most natural state. Thoreau worries that working men have surrendered their personal autonomy to the demands of a capitalist society. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Culture provides for every possible want or need those under its aegis could dream of, no matter how strange. ![]() Managed carefully by super-intelligent computers and humans called Minds, the people of the Culture want for absolutely nothing at all. Banks’ Culture series, set in a far distant, space-faring future, humanity has actually reached that point. In short, one would be facing, in the most horrific sense of the world, complete and utter boredom. And in a way, the fact that it’s an illusory list is what makes it fun: if one could actually set out and do everything one ever wanted to do in life, and buy everything one ever wanted, then life, as a whole, would quickly lose its shine. However, unless one has a few screws loose, or has actually won a sizable jackpot, the list is illusory: a wish-list rather than something real. The answers to it are often revealing of a person’s aspirations and desires. “What will you do if you win the jackpot in a lottery or casino game?” This is a common enough question that I hear asked on a semi-regular basis. ![]() |