Old Is The New New

Alec Guinness on Star Wars, The Simpsons, syphilis, and Marlene Dietrich’s alien lover.

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“Joe Kennedy Trains the President:” Another history comic from Kate Beaton–she just keeps hitting them out of the park.

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P.D. Smith on the USSR’s (still operational?!?) doomsday device.

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Fun, smart post about green skyscrapers, sci-fi cities, urban futurism, and Jane Jacobs in Judge Dredd’s MegaCity-One. (HT)

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Was Cthulhu a railroad? The wires–or tentacles–connecting the Ghostbusters, H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, Frank Norris, BLDGBLOG, AT&T, and me.

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I did not see the new G.I. Joe movie this summer… …but I love the direction they took with the art direction and character designs. Edit: Artist Dave Perillo‘s site.

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An apocalyptic alternate history from my buddy Mark Rayner. Contains 100% of your CanCon RDA.

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As soon as I said, “But nobody can name the inventor of television,” the class shouted in unison: “Philo!”

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Panacean powders, patent medicines, pills, potions, and pamphlets for all your historical ills.

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Pulp polymath Jess Nevins, of Fantastic Victoriana and Annotated League of Extraordinary Gentlemen fame, reveals the secret history of the Zeppelin pulps.

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