Ben Towle

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Free Comic Book Day, pt 2

I’m very slowly making it through my stack of comics from Free Comic Book Day a couple of weeks ago. Here’re my thoughts on these most recent reeds: Alternative Comics Presents – I know there’re some creators published by Alternative Comics who I really like–Nick Bertozzi, Rebecca Dart and Robert Ullman, just off the top …

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Revenge of the Sith

Initial thoughts: I’m still in a bit of post-movie euphoria, but…overall, ep III was surprisingly good…even great–the best installment since “Empire.” What it had that ep I and ep II completely lacked was real conflict…not “conflict” in the sense of people fighting one another–the previous two films had that–but “conflict” in the sense of human …

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Goggles & Gloves, pg. 4

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Star Wars, Ep III – Got tickets…

I was greatly releived to hear that the local theater–the only local theater–showing Episode III had apparently obtained an additional print of the movie and had added another 12:01am showing…since the intial 12:01 showing was sold out by the time I went to get tickets.

San Diego Travel Trauma

My advance travel plannning for this year’s San Diego Comicon has so far been less than hassle-free, as you can read about in my letter/warning published at Tom Spurgeon’s blog, The Comics Reporter: Comicon, Travel Planers and the U.S. Grant Hotel