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Storycomic Weekly Newsletter: August 14th

I read Tony McMillen’s newest book, AttaBoy.

Tony made the book in a treasury size and it was a great idea to have the book in a larger than normal comic book size format.

I really loved the story. It was a combination of classic Nintendo game instructional manual with symbolism and parallels to the narrator’s personal history.

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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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