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When I was reorganizing stuff in my room yesterday morning, I sorted out a comic entitled Kingdom Come. The comic has four books in total [I bought them all, since I knew there would be only four books] and they all have black-classy-cool cover. The comic was published by DC Comics, the story was done by Mark Waid, and the masterpiece drawings were painted by Alex Ross. Alongside the DC logo and the title, there was also another logo, Elseworlds. I don’t really know whether Elseworlds is another publisher or just a division of DC, or just a nickname created by DC to label some of its comics, but at the inner back cover, I found something interesting. It said,

In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places-some that have existed, and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow.

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In this time of semester [tomorrow’s midterm test], I am quite hesitantly write this down. I need to write these since I think mangas are great. I only got this opinion recently. OK first great manga I ever read is of course Dragon Ball [I kinda forgot who wrote it, Toriyama? Akira Toriyama?], along with Chin Mi from Kungfu Boy and Chin Mi from Break Shot and Dora Emon and Nobita and bunch of other Japanese comics. But these recently I found what I think turned out to be the other side of Japs comics. I don’t really know what terms should I use [Japanese terms of course], so I use them freely [or I didn’t use them at all?]. Continue reading →

Just bought “Jomblo”, and finished it in a flash. It is a hilarious book. Hilarious story too. Of course, there’s plenty room for improvement in its layout but overall, I’ll give it 7 out of 10 [look, who am I to judge? silly]. But again, it is a great book and tells a great story. Continue reading →

At my own disbelief I’ve just finished “Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix” in this very holiday, in this very full of assignments/home works/duties/anything you want to name them with. Read in 3 days [about 12 hours or so in total], this story is of course is getting deeper and darker as Harry himself grow older. Continue reading →