The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Sunday, December 18, 2022

How Toys Become Real

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All stories are true.  This is the story which Bill Mantlo tells about the creation of the Micronauts. It's Christmas 1978: Bill Mantlo ...
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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Toy Story

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The Micronauts was an American repackaging of a line of Japanese toys and action figures. It was never a construction system like Lego, but ...
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Saturday, December 03, 2022

1978

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That first poster was strangely static. A bare-chested male hero, holding some kind of shining light or torch above his head; a woman, with ...
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Thursday, November 10, 2022

Episode VI + VII

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The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is, in complicated ways, unfinished. Sim sustained an apparently unexplained wrist injury which means he c...
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Episode V

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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.  The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is subtitled "a metaphysi...

Episode IV

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The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is more like an extended essay than a graphic novel. The text, sometimes in captions and sometimes in ball...
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Episode III

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The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is completely unhinged. But it is interestingly unhinged. At the very least, it is a structural wonder, an...

Episode II

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 I saw Star Wars when it first came out in 1977. It was very good. It was generally accepted that Star Wars was pretty heavily derived from ...
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