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Neil Gaiman

What­ever Hap­pened to the Caped Cru­sader? (2009) by writer Neil Gaiman and artist, Andy Kubert. Cur­rently sells in hard­cover (Deluxe Edi­tion) for $24.99 US, 128 pgs and dis­trib­uted by DC Comics. Bat­man cre­ator was Bob Crane.
So Neil Gaiman gets to write the last Bat­man story, eh? Or at least it’s his last take on the […]

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Monday News

by Avid Reader on July 20, 2009

in Avid Musings

Peo­ple who like to say “Happy Mon­day” — are they really that cheer­ful, do you think? Mov­ing on. Here are an assorted selec­tion of news top­ics that I ran across the net recently.
Keis­hon is still reading

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Cora­line, writ­ten by Neil Gaiman and illus­trated by Dave McK­ean, tells the story of a young girl who bravely saves her­self and her par­ents from the ghosts that inhabit their home.
Cora­line Jones and her par­ents stay in a divided up flat. The flat below them is occu­pied by Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, for­mer the­atre actresses who […]

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The Grave­yard Book (2008) by Neil Gaiman is a illus­trated children’s novel pub­lished in hard­cover by Harper­Collins.
Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Grave­yard Book’ is directly inspired by Rud­yard Kipling’s ‘The Jun­gle Book.’ Just replace the wild ani­mals of the jun­gle with the ghosts in the grave­yard and what you have is a imag­i­na­tively fun story.

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I have yet to behold the won­der that is Neil Gaiman. I’ve heard through word of mouth how good he is but I have yet to read any of his books. How­ever, I do own a few. CNN did a inter­view with the author about his new book, Grave­yard, which is inspired by Kipling’s The Jun­gle Book. Instead of […]

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Are you up for a story about for­got­ten gods? Gods who used to be wor­shipped by humans but who now walk the Earth in obscu­rity? Orig­i­nal cre­ator and late comic leg­end, Jack Kirby cre­ated the series known as The Eter­nals back in 1976 but he never fin­ished it. I have no prior knowl­edge about this series and it’s […]

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Pre­ludes and Noc­turnes by Neil Gaiman. Where does one even begin? I was curi­ous about Mr. Gaiman’s Sand­man series as I’m told repeat­edly, that’s it’s pop­u­lar. I had bought  End­less Nights not real­iz­ing that it was not the first vol­ume in the series. I rushed back to the store and got a copy of Pre­ludes and Noc­turnes. Here is […]

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