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Nice!
Mick McMahon and Brian Bolland will be signing my Cursed Earth book tomorrow

This front page of Judge Dredd reminds me of the comic Slaine, is there indeed a pen connection in that one?

^ that is Slaine, Glenn Fabry drew both Slaine and Dredd in 2000ad. He drew Preacher too, amongst others.

Admired Glenn Fabry's work since teenager. Nice to learn that he is behind that work after so many years.

czuczu wrote:^ that is Slaine, Glenn Fabry drew both Slaine and Dredd in 2000ad. He drew Preacher too, amongst others.

and an award winning run of hellblazer covers.

czuczu wrote:Nice!
Mick McMahon and Brian Bolland will be signing my Cursed Earth book tomorrow

Awesome! Did you get it signed in the end? I understand that it sold out pretty darn quickly!

I'm not going to bother with the book - as well as a couple of the previous collected versions (which are missing the "banned" issues) I have the original comics:

Cover by Mick McMahon


Cover by Brian Bolland

I left all my progs, complete set with a few starlords from the pre-Tharg days in my mums garage for safe keeping some time in the 90s. I later discovered she took them to a cub camp and handed them out as wet weather entertainment to pre-teenage kids.

We still don't talk!

(this last bit isnt true but it was a difficult conversation when I found out )

Yep, got my book signed and managed to snatch one of the Dark Judges prints off the website too, dont know how I missed that at the time.
Wish I'd taken my Killing Joke to get signed too...

czuczu wrote:I left all my progs, complete set with a few starlords from the pre-Tharg days in my mums garage for safe keeping some time in the 90s. I later discovered she took them to a cub camp and handed them out as wet weather entertainment to pre-teenage kids.

Yeah a lot of my old progs disappeared in a mother-related cleaning incident but I've been restocking on ebay.

Obviously in Polish.

Published also in Germany as: Die Blume Europas.

Bartek wrote:
Obviously in Polish.

Published also in Germany as: Die Blume Europas.

Which is the connection between "Flowers" and Vraclav ?

Authors gave German publisher two titels from which he could choose (simple: History of Wroclaw or Geschichte von Breslau wasn't something that they want to see as title of this book, becuase in their view and idea this book isn't striclty and only about history of city alone, but its history is/was use/d as paraller or canvas to wrote about history of Mittelueropa/Central Europe); one was Microcosm and the other - Die Blume (...) that comes from 18th century work of Wroclaw's poet, who called Wroclaw the flower of Europe.

I believe that as I fed you hunger for knowledge, now you gonna run to bookshop, buy the book and read it all.

I admit, i have a Fetish and that is History and this one sounds particularly interesting
Vraclav is the second city i hear called by the name "Flower", the first i knew was the "Flower of The Orient" aka Zakynthos, though they used it for the whole island not just the city itself...

I took that book right after E. Mühle's Breslau. Geschichte einer europäischen Metropole, where he mantioned Davis' and Moorhouse's book, and wrote that it had very critical response by historians; that Microcosm trying to force idea that Wroclaw has continuous history not only as place, but in spirit, which isn't entirly true, because after WWII almost all citizens of Breslau (only few hundreds of Polish descend Breslau's citizens were let to stay) was replaced by Poles. Buildings is only what was left.
Nonetheles Microcosm is one of that book that i have to finally read as someone who live and breath Wroclaw - my city.

Read my copy again on the flight over last week......

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHhkCf_DFoH/

http://thequietus.com/articles/20321-ne ... ore-mayhem

Peter Hook: Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
Started this yesterday's evening; after travel back from vacation i needed something that needs less focus than what i'm reading. at this moment i read almost 1/4 of book. nicely written.

another one: art of live according to Stoic (that's my rough translation) by Polish author.

Bartek wrote:Peter Hook: Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
Started this yesterday's evening; after travel back from vacation i needed something that needs less focus than what i'm reading. at this moment i read almost 1/4 of book. nicely written.

The sequel about his days in New Order will be published in 2-3 weeks time


Wonderful!

Big Si wrote:
The sequel about his days in New Order will be published in 2-3 weeks time

Ordered my copy yesterday. Very much looking forward to it.
Also ordered Lol Tolhursts book and Will Carruthers (Spacemen 3) - playing bass with 3 left hands.

Reading Hook's book takes me four days. Nicely written, lot of insight facts.


I like, and somehow share, his attitude. Great sense of humor, lot of absurd, lot of misantropy.

Hom_Corleone wrote:Also ordered Lol Tolhursts book and Will Carruthers (Spacemen 3) - playing bass with 3 left hands.

Halfway through Lol's at the moment; I'm finding that there's not a huge amount of new info in it but it is interesting to hear it from his own perspective.

Finished Willie's a few weeks ago; it's absolutely awesome and hilarious but also heartbreaking at the same time.

Barbara W. Tuchman - The Proud Tower

I was looking for that kind of book.

Discovered this yesterday
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
which I thought was the most interesting/unbiased explanation of the paradox that I'd read . Made a mistake in following some of the links to other posts (Elon Musk etc) and lost most of the weekend. Sometimes the internet can be boring other times it throws up a goodie.

I'm reading an absolute belter.
Picked it up in the library using the 'judging a book by it's cover' method.
Thoroughly recommended. Fast paced, well written and unpredictable.