“For 232 years, America celebrated Independence Day on July 4th. Sadly, for too many, it’s just a cookout. Now we have to ask: Are we heading to Dependence Day? Not if I can help it.”
– Rush Limbaugh
Stated by the host on yesterday’s Rush Limbaugh Show.
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I’ll be celebrating the day by honoring these specific principles of our nation’s founding, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and I hope you’re able to do the same.
[...] We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. [...]
I also strongly encourage everyone to take a few minutes (that’s all it’ll take) to read the complete text of the Declaration of Independence, one of our country’s founding documents, signed on this day in 1776.
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As I do from time to time, I spent a little while the other day working with photographs recently taken. Using the GIMP software package, I applied different filters and changed some of the settings of a few pictures uploaded to my most recent DILO photoset.
What we see above is the result of one such “tweaking.” The small image below links to the original, before I GIMPed it, and can be seen larger by clicking on it.
…to go undercover. The Cave is a bar on the eastside where humans sympathetic with Hell’s Army hang out. Nara needs to check it out. Pictured below, she’s ready to go.
This graphic comes from Dead@17: Afterbirth #1, written, drawn, and colored by Josh Howard, and carrying a June 2009 publication date from Image comics.
We find the following summary of this book at the publisher’s site.
Nara Kilday has returned from the dead as Gemini, agent of the celestial covert ops force known as the Zodiac. Her primary mission has been the safeguarding of her best friend Hazy who is now the living embodiment of the Key to the Abyss. But while they’ve spent the last three years trying to piece together a normal life, Earth has continued its shift into Hell’s domain, setting the world on the inevitable path towards apocalypse.
I’ve enjoyed other Josh Howard works in the past, but this is the first time I’ve read any of his Dead@17. Not surprisingly, I’m liking this, too. As a matter of fact, I’m tempted to look for the TPB collecting his earlier Dead@17 that was so popular with all the cool kids.
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One of my assigned opponents in a Postal Correspondence Chess Tourney I’ve recently entered is an inmate in a penal institution. This graphic appears at the bottom of his first mailing to me.
One has to appreciate the expressions of humor by those in unfortunate circumstances.
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My shift in reading habits from mostly monthly comic books to TPBs, more manga, and more prose books is reflected in these monthly wish-lists compiled from the offerings of the monthly Previews Catalog growing ever smaller. This is my list from July’s Catalog for books scheduled to be released in September, which is still subject to a bit of culling before I order from my suppliers.
From the July 2009 Previews Catalog:
p. 94 – High Moon Vol. 1 TPB
p. 138 – Bomb Queen VI – I want to subscribe to this 4-issue mini-series.
p. 187 – Vampirella: The Second Coming – I want to subscribe to this new series. And I’d like to have the Stegman Cover on the frst issue.
p. 210 – Cavewoman: Pangaean Sea – I’d like to add this title to my pull-list.
p. 234 – Athena – I want to subscribe to this new series.
p. 268 – Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven and Other Stories – a HC book illustrated by Ben Templesmith
p. 288 – Tank Girl: The Odyssey Remastered Edition TP
p. 328 – Dracula: The Un-Dead HC – a novel.
Julian is a shape-shifting Babylonian sorcerer who is currently disguised as a high school girl in Essex, and whose door is guarded by a powerful Babylonian curse. John thinks he knows the particular chant that negates the curse and he mutters it as he heads up the stairs to Julian’s flat.
But…
As far as you go,
John Constantine.
This time the chant doesn’t work.
Only after the Babylonian Demon that lives in the curse roughs him up a bit does the Hellblazer learn Julian’s changed the password.
This scene is from Hellblazer #256, written by Peter Milligan, with art by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Stefano Landini, and carrying an August 2009 publication date from Vertigo.
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