Category: Books
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Book Review: ‘William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return: Star Wars Part the Sixth’
Emperor:This lightsaber that resteth by my side– Thou doest desire it hotly, doest thou not?The hate doth swell within thee even now–It hath an aura palpable. Take upThy Jedi weapon, use it. I–as thouCanst see–am quite unarm’d. So strike me down With all thy hatred, let thine anger stirEach moment thou dost more become my…
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Book Review: ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Adaptation (Marvel Comics)
On June 18, 2019, Marvel Comics published the trade paperback edition of Solo; A Star Wars Story, which collected issues 1-7 of writer Robbie Thompson and artist Will Sliney’s adaptation of director Ron Howard’s 2018 film about the early adventures of Han Solo, Chewbacca the Wookiee, and their first caper as smugglers in the early…
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Book Review: ‘Star Wars: The Original Topps Trading Card Series – Volume One’
If you are old enough to remember when Star Wars hit the pop culture scene in May of 1977, you probably recall that in those last years before videocassette recorders became affordable enough for the average American consumer, there really weren’t many means for fans to “take the movie home” until 20th Century Fox saw…
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Book Review: ‘Wacky Packages New New New’
Wacky Packages. If you were a kid growing up in the early to mid-1970s, you probably remember Topps’s Wacky Packages stickers, which were parodies of American consumer products and their packaging (hence the name “Wacky Packages”). More than likely, if you were around 10 years old in 1973 when Topps – known for its Bazooka…
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Book Review: ‘William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back: Star Wars Part the Fifth’
I would as eagerly kiss a Wookiee’s lips. – Leia Organa, William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back: Star Wars Part the Fifth, Act I, Scene 1 On March 18, 2014, Philadelphia-based Quirk Books (home of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) published William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back, Star Wars Part the Fifth. Written…
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Book Review: ‘William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope’
The Force. The Force doth give a Jedi all his pow’r, And ‘tis a field of energy that doth Surround and bind all things Together, here within our galaxy. – Obi-Wan Kenobi, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, Verily A New Hope, Act II, Scene 2 On July 2, 2013, Philadelphia-based Quirk Books published Ian Doescher’s William…
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Book Review: ‘Wacky Packages’
On June 1, 2008, Abrams ComicArts published Wacky Packages, a collection of the first seven series of Topps Chewing Gum Company’s irreverent trading cards that featured parodies of American consumer goods. Created by a team of artists that included Art Spiegelman (Maus), Norm Saunders, Jay Lynch, Kim Deitch, and Tom Sutton, Wacky Packages became a…
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Life in the Time of COVID-19: Entertainment is Key to Maintaining Sanity
Living in the time of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is, to put it mildly, quite a challenge for most people, especially those of us who live in the United States. As I write this on the afternoon of April 10, there are 1,673,423 confirmed cases worldwide, with the U.S. in the not-so-great spot of being…
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‘No hay novedad’: Life in the Time of COVID-19
Hi, there. Welcome to another edition of A Certain Point of View, Too, my new blog in WordPress. As I write this, it’s almost six o’clock on Thursday, April 9. Here in my corner of Florida, it’s 84 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius) under mostly sunny skies. It’s early spring, but here in the Deep…
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Coming Soon to “A Certain Point of View, Too”
Hello, there! Welcome to another edition of Bloggin’ On in A Certain Point of View, Too, my new WordPress blog, the best place in the blogsphere to get my latest reviews, essays, and political commentary. I hope you are staying safe and healthy in these weird and troubled times of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that…
