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Funny Books are Starting to be Fun Again

I've been having a great time the last few months reading World's Finest and The Brave and the Bold.  World's Finest is exactly what you might expect it to be if you read comics back in the '80s. It's got Batman and Superman together in stories that include a somewhtat random selection of other DC characcers each month. (As of this writing, the cast includes both the JLA and the JSA!) The stories are between 1 and 3 issuees long and are light-hearted (enough) and fun! What do I mean by fun? Next month, there will be a story featuring Superdong, Supercat, and Ace the Bathound! Oh! And also Jimmy Olsen and maybe Batgirl. Meanwhile, The Brave and the Bold has turned into a monthly anthology. It has about four stories a month. Some of them are sequential, some are one-shots, and there's even the occasional flash fiction like the adorable ManBat story by G. Willow Wilson. Again, the sotries are fun, not "important." Think Shazam, (Billy actulaly), meets Gre...

Robin Galante Singer/Songwriter Extraordinare!

As I walked in the singer looked up and there it was again, that grin ! Different side of the world, but the same grin. Her name I later found out is Robin Galante . Robin was playing in the front of the coffee shop with a two person audience. I made my way to the back where coffee is served. I ordered a medium coffee, which at Adventure Coffee is a huge coffee, and made my way back to the front of the store. I plopped into a comfy chair against the store-front window and enjoyed. Robin looked up again, flashed the same smile and continued to play. Her voice was beautiful and rich and true as she played the guitar. All the lyrics hit home. Songs about chasing your dreams, songs about making the most of every circumstance in every day, and songs about the world and everyone in it all rolled into a guitar-backed, mellow performance. I bought one of Robin's albums which she was gracious enough to autograph for me. Again, it was just excellent. It even included a song about ...