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llyzabeth

aka Elizabeth Wallace. Full-time graphic designer, part-time book reviewer and violinist. Slightly weird, usually nice, occasionally grumpy, always preoccupied.
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Comic Issues #159 – Working hard and hardly working

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Everybody’s working so hard lately, but there’s two kinds of working. First there’s the building, designing, digging, power-tools kind of working. We’re doing a lot of that. But there’s also catching up on all the awesome geeky stuff out there. All those

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Review: Joss Whedon’s Fray

Reading the first issue of Leaves on the Wind, Dark Horse’s answer to a second season of Firefly, put me on a Joss Whedon kick, so I went through my collection of Joss-created comics. I wasn’t surprised to find that even though it’s been ten years since Fray was released as a graphic novel, it

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Review: Red Rising

This book was released less than a month ago, but it’s already causing a stir, and it’s easy to see why. Red Rising has elements that will be familiar to anyone who’s read books like Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, or Divergent, but Pierce Brown has taken these concepts and made them into something original and

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Comic Issues #157 – Why we watched the Super Bowl

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Millions of people gathered to watch the Super Bowl so they could see the football game of the year. (Sorry about that Broncos, better luck next time?) But geeks around the world waited through all that football stuff so we could get

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Review: Three short reads

Huge, epic books are fun, but sometimes it’s nice to grab a short book off the shelf. One can try something new, or return to a familiar world, without the long-term commitment of some of those frighteningly giant, phonebook-sized novels. (I’m looking at you, The Stand. And you, Atlas Shrugged.) With that in mind I

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Comic Issues #155 – Live from the Villainous Lair!

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Welcome to the first of our regularly scheduled live video podcasts from the Villainous Lair, recorded with full audience participation from all across the country! Join our heroes and heroine and special guest, comic-expert Chris Mitchell, as we take questions (and sometimes

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Review: Serenity – Leaves On the Wind

What Firefly fans want most is not a second season that picks up ten years after the last episode. They don’t want a Serenity Two that meets up with our favorite characters a decade later. What fans want most is a second season that picks up exactly where season one left off; same characters, same

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Review: A Red Sun Also Rises

I’ve heard it said that the problem with writing science-fiction mysteries is that you have aliens or devices that don’t conform to all the rules of our world, but there still has to be a strong internal logic to the story. Otherwise the mystery doesn’t make sense; there isn’t a puzzle that can be revealed

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Comic Issues #153 – Cars of Geekdom

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Anthony’s getting a new car! To celebrate, the podcast crew talks about their favorite geek cars: which prop car would you want to drive off the set, and which fantasy car would you have if it was a real thing? Along the

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