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Fridays…with Greg Hatcher

Friday In An Age Undreamed Of -- no, the OTHER One.

This is something that I've never been able to figure out.

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A Saturday in Olympia

Specifically, the Olympia Comics Festival.

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Some Quick Saturday Linkblogging

By the time you read this, Julie and I will be off on our longest vacation/bookscouting road trip since we got married.

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Cross-Hatchings for June 2010

Bits and pieces. This and that. You know.

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Hexed Weekend

"I can't make up my mind," I admitted to my wife. "I mean, on the one hand, there's the Megan Fox Rule. On the other, well... it's Jonah Hex. I love Jonah Hex, it's been one of my favorite comics for decades."

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Friday in the YA Library

Full disclosure: this isn't really about comics. But it brushes up against them, and also animated cartoons, in a couple of places.

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Friday in the Bank Vault

Here's a question I've heard many, many times over my forty-plus years of reading comics. The first time was probably when I was about eleven. The most recent was last week. I bet a lot of you have heard it too.
"What's the most valuable comic book you own?"

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Friday's Guest Spot

Well, I went and did it again.

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Friday In The Old Neighborhood

I don't know if this ever happens to you, but it happens to me a lot, at least with my older books.

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Saturday Drive-By

This is going to be a very short one, today.

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The Friday We Messed Around With Jim

This was a real conversation. It's been about ten years since it happened, so my memory might not be accurate in every detail, but I will vouch for most of it.

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Friday at the Finish Line

Okay, so here is where I admit to being stupid. Or maybe it's just naive.

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Saturday's Bargain Hunt

Our friend Carla called last week to remind us about the giant library sale at Magnusson Park. You may remember me mentioning this last year -- the Friends of the Seattle Library fill a gigantic old hangar out at Sand Point with aisles and aisles of books and the sale goes on all weekend. It's [...]

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A Friday Plea

We're having kind of a rough day here today. I won't bore you with details... work stuff, money stuff. It's been a long week. So, bottom line, the column I was working on isn't going up here tonight.
However, I just discovered I'm not having nearly as rough a week as Gene Colan.

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Weekend Weltschmerz

  • by Greg Hatcher
  • Saturday, April 10th, 2010 at 10:41 AM EST

I'll save you looking it up. Weltschmerz is a delightfully rude-sounding word for a certain kind of world-weary disappointment, a feeling that translates roughly as "nostalgia for a place you have never actually been and probably will never get to go."
This seems like it should be a familiar state of mind to superhero fans. [...]

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