![]() ![]() Don't miss this unique opportunity to add an 'A-Level' piece featuring the most recognizable character in Miller's magnum opus to your collection! Miller's legendary stories in Sin City are widely regarded as being among the most revolutionary and edgy comics ever produced within the medium and inspired two Sin City movies that were extremely faithful to the source material. Miller is universally considered one of the most important artists and storytellers of our time, and one of the greatest creators ever to work in comics and film. ![]() This piece is pure Miller-both pencils and inks. You really could not ask for a better image of Marv! Given Marv's importance to the saga and his popularity, this might be the most significant piece of Sin City artwork to ever come up for sale. ![]() It is extremely rare to see Miller original art featuring Marv come up for a public auction as the legendary creator has reportedly kept virtually all of the Marv originals for his own archives. It's a superb depiction of the brutal Marv, hacksaw in hand, ready to get revenge on the men behind the killing of his beloved, the prostitute Goldie. ![]() It was published as the frontispiece in Miller's Sin City: The Hard Goodbye Curator's Collection Edition by Dark Horse in 2016. This superb, prime era piece featuring the tragic lead character Marv was originally illustrated in 1992 by the iconic Frank Miller for his original Sin City saga, "The Hard Goodbye". Dimensions: The art has an approximate image area of 10" X 10". ![]()
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![]() Still, he saw many paparazzi photos of his dying mother. ![]() Harry’s private secretary obtained the files, though he removed the most “challenging” ones, Harry wrote. Years after his mother’s death, Harry asked to see the secret police files related to the crash. He wasn’t great at showing emotions under normal circumstances, how could he be expected to show them in such a crisis? But his hand did fall once more on my knee and he said: It’s going to be OK. What I do remember with startling clarity is that I didn’t cry. It’s possible that I didn’t say anything. ![]() Harry writes that “none of what I said to him then remains in my memory. Darling boy, Mummy’s been in a car crash.” He went on, “ They tried, darling boy. ![]() “He sat down on the edge of the bed,” Harry writes. The morning after Diana, Harry’s mother, died in a car crash in Paris, Charles, his father, woke him up to tell him what had happened. 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You are currently viewing the details page on Bookshelves for the book Little Miss Independent by Julia Templeton.īookshelves is one feature of Bookshelves is found under the /shelves/ subfolder at. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But after a freak skiing accident leaves her with serious injuries, a broken heart and a job she can no longer do, moving back to Australia to recuperate at her brother Mark’s winery in the Shingle Valley seems like the only option. ![]() Mattie Cameron thinks she’s got it all figured out: an impressive career in London, a gorgeous boyfriend and brilliant friends. When something is taken away, it can make what’s left all the sweeter – in winemaking, they call it the ‘angels’ share’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wells’ “ The War of the Worlds” and Verne’s “ Journey to the Center of the Earth” captivated readers with their imaginative concepts and explorations of the unknown. While not strictly science fiction in the modern sense of the term, the novel did explore themes of the unknown and the limits of human knowledge, paving the way for future authors to delve deeper into similar themes.Īs the 19th century progressed, science fiction literature began to gain popularity, with authors like H.G. Throughout history, numerous authors have dabbled in fantastical realms and enigmatic inventions, such as Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machines or Johannes Kepler’s dream of traveling to the moon.Īnother early influence on science fiction literature was Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” published in 1818. The story, written in the 2nd century AD, describes a journey to the moon and a war between lunar inhabitants and Earth’s warriors. One of the earliest examples of science fiction literature can be found in the ancient Greek classic, “ True History” by Lucian of Samosata. ![]() From the wonders of the heavens to the astonishing inventions of future civilizations, science fiction has evolved over time to encompass a vast spectrum of ideas and themes. The history of science fiction literature reaches back to the earliest days of storytelling itself, as humans have always been fascinated by the unknown and the possibility of breaking away from the constraints of their own reality. ![]() The Origins of Science Fiction Literature ![]() ![]() ![]() The artwork is large and in graphic novel-style, with sparse colors, similar to the "Dragonbreath" illustrations. When the curse backfires, leaving all in the Kingdom in a deep slumber except Harriet and Mumfrey, it is up to the fierce little hamster to find a willing prince able to help her break the curse and save the kingdom. Rather than worry about the inevitable, Princess Harriet lives life without fear-cliff-diving and Ogre-cat fighting, all with her trusty quail friend Mumfrey at her side. The curse dooms Princess Harriet to fall into a Sleeping Beauty-like slumber at the age of 12 but leaves her unable to die until then. So when her parents tell her that she was cursed by a rat at birth and predestined to prick her. Harriet Hamsterbone is not your typical princess. Harriet Hamsterbone is a princess who hates all things royal. Harriet is also invincible, due in part to a curse put upon her at birth by the evil wicked fairy god mouse, Ratshade. Sleeping Beauty gets a feisty, furry twist in this hilarious comic series from the creator of Dragonbreath. She is, however, brave and intelligent and excels in other hamster princess skills, like checkers and fractions. Princess Harriet Hamsterbone is not like ordinary princesses who are known for trailing around the palace looking ethereal and sighing a lot. Harriet Hamsterbone is not your typical princess. ![]() ![]() Gr 3–5-From the creator of the "Dragonbreath" series (Dial) comes a new fairy tale heroine in the form of a hamster. ![]() ![]() ![]() She shrugged, her elegant shoulders arching, which made her rather large breasts also move. Then he threw his shirt over his head and haphazardly tucked the ends into his waistband.įrom the bed, Barbara held up the missing smallclothes, her wide red lips parting in a teasing smile. Foregoing smallclothes since he couldn’t seem to find them, he pulled his breeches on. Tobias scrambled from the bed and ran about plucking up his carelessly tossed clothing. They hadn’t even come back to Barbara’s lodgings until the sun was rising over London. “In the afternoon?” Of course, in the afternoon. His eyes shot open as he pushed himself to a sitting position, the bedclothes falling away from his nude body. “What time is your ward arriving?” Barbara, his soon-to-be-former mistress, asked from behind him.īloody hell, his ward. ![]() He was particularly tired today, but then it had been a viciously late night. Instead, he pressed himself into the bedclothes as if he could hug the cozy softness of the bed. Tobias Powell, fifth Earl of Overton, smiled faintly at the brush of his mistress’s fingertips along his shoulder. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He gives the card away to a child who doesn’t know what it is, and he is free. “Their end is accumulation,” Biss writes, “collecting cards for a game they don’t know how to play.” In the end, J buys his dream card but is hassled so viciously for it at school that he winds up crying. The kids could battle one another with the Pokémon cards, but they don’t. These flimsy pieces of cardboard have no objective value each card is worth only what another child will give up for it. Some cards are sparkly, some more powerful in attacking others, some desirable simply because they are rare. The children argue about what the cards are worth. Before long, he is taking part in a miniature market exchange on the school playground. He finds out he can buy more cards using the money he gets for doing his chores. Her son, “J,” begins school and is given a starter pack of Pokémon trading cards by another boy. ![]() There is a scene in Eula Biss’s new book of essays, Having and Being Had, that makes me almost howl with recognition. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last of these letters was written on November 29, 1942, several months before his arrest: footnoteĪt the beginning of a letter that in this solemn hour is meant to call you all to true joy, there necessarily stand the names of those brothers who have died since I last wrote to you: P. He sent them a series of circular letters – hand-signed and hand-addressed – reporting on the activities and deaths of members of this circle, encouraging those remaining, and continuing their instruction. But Bonhoeffer worked hard to maintain ties among the Finkenwald seminarians and other Confessing Church pastors. Even the underground seminary that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had started in Finkenwald had been broken up by the Gestapo in 1939. ![]() But they do show what enabled him to bear the consequences of his opposition to the Nazi regime: his complete rootedness in Christ’s overcoming love.īy late 1942, the independent Confessing Church seminaries had been closed for five years. Did he, a convinced pacifist, take part in a failed plot to assassinate Hitler? Where was his theology heading? The following selections from his last writings will not resolve these questions. Dietrich Bonhoeffer – theologian, pastor, dissident, and martyr – will remain a controversial figure. ![]() ![]() ![]() I knew Elon Musk is making cars and rockets, but I didn't knew he supported non-profit Future of Life Institute with $10M. Worth reading Life 3.0 by AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity, so let’s get it right. To Alpha GO beating the greatest human master in 2016: Ask Elon Musk Max is skilled in putting complex technical concepts in very simple way. ![]() ![]() This book is mix of fiction, utopia, dystopia, number of researches, with focus on beneficial intelligence. Until then I only thought about artificial intelligence from Maths and Psychology point of view, which is great combination but merely enough to understand the topic properly. "The poorest 50 % of Earth's population had earned only about 4 % of the global income, enabling the Omega-controller companies to win their hearts (and votes) by sharing only a modest fraction of their profits with them."īeing Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligenceĭaniel Pink in one of his PinkCast (the best value/time deal vlogs I know, just ~ 2 minutes) shared a link to book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark.įew more people liked it too, so why not give it a try: ![]() |