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...nose. Riel himself starts out rather normal in scale but after his enlightenment becomes huge, like the Hulk in a wool suit. In the final issue, Brown cites Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" as a major influence, and the comparison is dead on. From the thin, uniformly weighted pen lines right down to the circles for eyes, Brown has updated Gray's technique to tell a true adventure...
...year as the second greatest sports book of all time (behind A.J. Liebling's The Sweet Science)--and he has been covering the Yankees for 50 years. His prose is the quintessence of the newspaper school of sportswriting--he can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen, as it were. If you're wondering how that's done, consider his 18-word skewering of Yankees centerfielder John Milton ("Mickey") Rivers: "He may well be the only person named for John Milton who has never heard of John Milton...
...demanding that the hierarchy give $53,000 to the poor. The ransom was never paid, the statues never returned. Given that taste for direct action, it's a wonder the Blissett Project's four founders - Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi and Luca di Meo - had the patience to pen a doorstopper like Q. The novel is a sweeping saga of the 16th century religious wars touched off by the Reformation. Fast-paced, richly detailed and teeming with hundreds of characters, it throbs with violence, heroism, betrayal and sex. The main character, who often changes his name to escape death...
Next year, they’ll likely get it done more often. There will be more moments for the Frank Herrmanns of the world—and yes, Frank Herrmann himself—to pen. There will be more moments for the Magers and Ronzs to live again. And the string of moments when the certainty of the clouds is defied will be, perhaps, a little more narrative-friendly...
Yesterday, Wahlberg took the mound in the fourth in relief of senior Brendan Reed with a 7-6 lead, no action in the pen and the spotlight squarely...