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A Balance of Terror: John Carpenter, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Enduring National Fear

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Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. — George Wald

There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don’t understand. Internal is the human heart. — John Carpenter

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The Essential Jimmy Olsen Comic Book Stories

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Jimmy Olsen is one of the most recognizable supporting characters in comics, and for my money, the most famous pal in history. The red-headed bow-tie wearing Daily Planet photographer is up there with Archie and Dennis the Menace as fictional presences interwoven in the modern American mythology. [Read more…] about The Essential Jimmy Olsen Comic Book Stories

America’s Best Comics (ABC) Reading Order!

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America’s Best Comics (ABC) was a comic title that originally ran from 1940-49 and featured such golden age and pulp heroes as The Black Terror, Captain Future, Doc Strange, and the Fighting Yank. Sadly, Standard/Better/Nedor, parent company to ABC, folded in 1956, during the crash in comic book sales brought on by the Cold War. [Read more…] about America’s Best Comics (ABC) Reading Order!