The mutant event of the decade is finally upon us, and the only thing that could make me happier is if Jonathan Hickman’s style were really my thing. Unfortunately, it is not. But just because[…]
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Author: Jack Phoenix
In the fight for access to eBooks, library supporters will need to pressure the publishers.
When I worked as a staff librarian for OverDrive, news came down from Macmillan that their Tor imprint would be implementing an embargo on library eBooks. Public libraries would not be allowed to purchase eBook[…]
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I cannot remember the last time I was this excited for an X-Men comic.
Despite the fact that this review of the first issue of Jonathan Hickman’s run on X-Men, which drops next week, incorrectly refers to his New Avengers title as Secret Avengers, it has me in a[…]
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Judge agrees to hold hateful Iowa man who burned library books live for attention accountable.
This hateful man posted live on Facebook his personal crusade to burn library books for kids and teens. Among the thousands and thousands of children’s and teen’s books in that library that portray straight and[…]
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Horror legend John Carpenter takes on the Clown Prince of Crime
I have to be honest. I’m bored with the Joker. Seriously, Batman has, hands down, the best rogues gallery in all of comicdom, but the Joker is still overused. It’s funny how the Joker is[…]
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The hottest thing in libraries since drag queen storytimes…the Charlie Cart!
Okay, that headline is hardly true, as these Charlie Carts cost, oh, ballpark 10 grand, but still, this is big. Big systems such as San Francisco, Cleveland, etc. are implementing these bad boys to provide[…]
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It’s a Mad, Mad World…or it was.
It’s been a big week in the comics world with announcements of the ends of two influential works. Okay, so Mad Magazine isn’t technically ceasing publication, and it’s not nearly as much of a shock[…]
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There. I fixed it.
There is a woman out there, sadly residing in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, who has declared libraries her enemy. Never in my wildest imaginings could I come up with a comic book villain so[…]
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Is The Walking Dead just hobbling now?
Well, I did not see this coming. No one did. Admittedly, I am behind (like years behind) on The Walking Dead comic, but, oddly, this gives me motivation to read the whole damn thing now,[…]
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Are publishers sabotaging libraries’ eBook lending?
When I was briefly a staff librarian at OverDrive, the announcement came down that PRH would be eliminating the One Copy/One User model for library eBooks (an eBook that can only be checked out one[…]
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