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Storycomic Weekly Newsletter: July 24th

More for nostalgia's sake, I dug out my reference book I purchased back in 1995, “The Fantasy Role-Playing Gamer’s Bible” by Sean Patrick Fannon. The book is such a fun resource for those who want to discover old-school games and also great for folks who want to learn about how to get into role-playing games.

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Storycomic Weekly Newsletter: July 17th

The Story Hour by Standard Education Society is what I read this past week. It is a collection of fables, stories, and poems. Some of them do not translate well to the modern audience, but most are just as imaginative and magical as anything a child would read now.

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Storycomic Weekly Newsletter: July 10th

I dug out the 1976 book, ‘Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes. It is mostly a collection of reprinted origin comics of 10 major DC characters back in the ’30s and ’40s.

The artwork, writing style, and layout of the panels are great examples of the golden age of comics. The book contains 18 reprinted stories. These are always fun and nostalgic reads.

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Storycomic Weekly Newsletter: May 8th

This past week was a full week of bedtime stories for the little ones. Most of the week was reading generic fairy tale-type stories.

My four-year-old picked out the book, “Only the Cat Saw” by Ashley Wolff and it was a delightful change of pace to the standard bedtime story fare.

It’s a fun 5-

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Storycomic Weekly Newsletter: April 24th

This past week I read the 2006 series of the “Defenders”. It was one of my bookshelf discoveries. It was so cool to see that the writers of this series were no other than the writing team of Keith Giffens and J.M. DeMatteis.

I loved their Justice League run in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and was excited to read these first 5 issues.

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Storycomic Weekly Newsletter: April 10th

This week I received in the mail my copies of issue 1 and 2 of ‘Bric-a-Brac’ from Ryan Haack. I started reading it with my daughters this week and they really loved it. The artwork is great and fits the story and Ryan did a great job in putting together a great plot.

I’m really excited to see what happens in Issue 3 now.

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