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 BIG SOUND 2009 Summit & Showcases $0.00 Pretty good sampler of, I guess, Australian pop/rock/indie music. My main complaint with the collection is the overall feeling of sameness, perhaps a function of the Queensland government being involved in the project. I don't imagine they are looking for "edgy"! I particularly liked Trees of Brisbane, With This Ship and Unsolved Mysteries, mostly because they sound more different than the rest of the songs, with nice quirky beats and syncopation. Good stuff, though, and recommended at the price.  Showcase Presents: Dial H For Hero $9.99 Teenaged Robby Reed discovered what looked like a lost telephone dial in a cave. However, on dialing the letters H-E-R-O, Robby is transformed into a super-hero - a different super-hero for every battle! This fondly remembered, quirkly super-hero series is collected here for the first time.  Showcase Presents: Batman, Vol. 1 $16.99 I can not recommend this book highly enough. For once 5 stars do not do it justice. This is a brilliant collection of stories from the titles Batman and Detective Comics of the 1960s. To basics. Although printed on cheap paper and in black and white this means that the books can be stacked high and sold cheap. Does this detract the reader? NO. Simply because the |American comics tended to have an artist who drew the strips then an `Inker' would colour them in, rather like those paint by numbers books from our youth. In England it was done by a single artist . So what you still get is the great art and brilliant storylines but loose the ink and colour. Now my point is that no one ever bought these for the colouring in did they? So 2 out of 3 aren't bad. Did any one buy the comics for the inking?? Now to the stories. They are simply magnificent and a joy for the returning reader such as I to the new reader. There is no way anyone could remember all these stories (??) so the readers are in for a brilliant run through of a well planned and magnificently detail set of stories and nostalgia. The great thing about this book is that volume two is out as well. Sheer enjoyment and for less than the cost of a pizza. A bargain. |
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