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Below are the 4 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Daily Scans" journal:

September 27th, 2009
07:48 am [jlroberson] [Link]	EC Comics "New Direction" MD #1 From 1955, a bit of a rarity; a docucomic drawn by Graham Ingels. From one of EC's last sputters before the Comics Code. ( The Fight For Life ) Current Location: Seattle Current Mood: blah Current Music: William Burroughs at Naropa: Class on Joseph Conrad.1979 Tags: creator: graham ingels, publisher: ec comics, theme: history (23 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 14th, 2009
07:05 pm [arilou_skiff] [Link]	Ben & Kit: Tag-team OF JUSTICE! "He has the strength of ten tigers. You never find him, he finds you. He has a thousand eyes and a thousand ears. His voice turns blood into ice. He who sees the his face, dies a horrible death. He is the Ghost who Walks. The Phantom. The Man Who Cannot Die." He also sometimes team up with America's Coolest Founding Father. Like in this story. ( Benjamin Franklin: CSI! And Electric Death Sticks! ) Tags: char: the phantom, genre: adventure, group: founding fathers, publisher: egmont, theme: history (12 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 21st, 2009
08:46 am [jlroberson] [Link]	Big Book of Bad: The Shah Someone mentioned this in relation to my last post on Iran's history. Found it, so here it is. ( The Twerp That Sold Out Iran In The First Place ) Current Location: Seattle Current Music: Pere Ubu, "St. Arkansas" Tags: creator: floyd hughes, creator: jonathan vankin, publisher: dc comics, theme: history, theme: iran, title: the big book of (26 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 18th, 2009
02:11 am [jlroberson] [Link]	Iran: Some History from Ennis & Moore I've been watching the events in Iran--what one can find out through the web, because the networks are blind--and was reminded of some work by Garth Ennis and Alan Moore that, at least in scraps, helps give a little bit of context to our historical place in this whole mess. ( Chocolate Cake and Missiles ) Current Location: Seattle Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Pere Ubu, "Song of the Bailing Man" Tags: creator: alan moore, creator: bill sienkiewicz, creator: garth ennis, creator: killian plunkett, genre: satire, theme: history, theme: iran, title: brought to light, title: unknown soldier (19 comments \| Leave a comment)