The Bodhisattva

We have some Mysterybookspot content Brian put up recently that should be checked out. He interviews Duane Swierczynski. Brian summarizes the topics discussed:
Hitler, Goodis, Drinking, Crime, Sherlock Holmes, Casing your own bank, The ensuing chaos
He also has put together a contest to win Allan Guthrie’s Hard Man. So check that out.
- Patrick reviews Patrick’s [...]

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I just opened the submission period for our fourth issue of Heliotrope - and it comes with big news regarding pay rate! Please read the updated guidelines - otherwise don’t be upset when we come to claim your soul, third born, or worse - hijack your NFL Sunday Ticket access.

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In a couple days I will be opening the submission period for our 2008 Winter Issue (Heliotrope#4) with some fresh new guidelines.
While we get that all in order - here is the latest content update for our Fall Issue (Helio3) that I just announced.

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Continued for my previous post on the subject, more news was just posted at Valiant.com regarding HARBINGER: THE BEGINNING - including news of an introduction to an all new VALIANT character!

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Been a bit busy finalizing Helio3 and drawing up new (and improved) guidelines for Helio4, but I have been getting some reading done.
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- Almost done with a review but in reading Logorrhea which has a lot of nice stories, but I forgot how much I miss reading Elric stories. We watch characters grow [...]

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Last September I had a post called Ten Comic Book Thoughts (which now looking back on it is one musing coming into fruition away from being prophetic scripture) and #1 on that list was not so due to any random choosing.
Yesterday over at Valiant.com, the faithful found a nice surprise in Previews, a solicitation [...]

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As I just announced at the Helio site: We are now closed to submissions for Heliotrope#3. That will be out in October!
Big new news on the Winter issue (Helio4) soon.

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Probably finalizing content for issue#3 this month - and will make an announcement regarding issue#4 next month. Here’s the latest!
That goes in the good news pile!

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A break from mug and the nostalgia zone of A Cup Of Joe here at the Bodhisattva and a quick opinion on the current JOE series. I just put up my review of G.I.JOE: America’s Elite#23 over at Fantasybookspot.com. We actually got a preview of this issue before it was published but Damon didn’t [...]

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Continuing with my A Cup of Joe feature - This issue is entitled Walk Through the Jungle.

You Know It Was The 80’s Quote:
That’s five dollars for each of us…you wanna walk down our street, you gotta price to meet you’re cruisin’ for a bruisin’…
Three grown punks stop another grown man and a teenager on a [...]

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In last couple of weeks I have been doing a disorganized reading of some Malazan books that has encompassed rereads of Esselmont’s Night of Knives, Erikson’s House of Chains, The Bonehunters and my first run through of Reaper’s Gale (which I’m trying to settle on how best to review).
At any rate, I’m the type of [...]

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I recently announced the second tidbit regarding Heliotrope #3 content.

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- Alan DeNiro on Space Opera at the LBC.
- Will Self interviewed at the Guardian
- Honestly, I have no clue who Toby Litt is, but recently he was interviewed regarding Ballard and it proved to be an interesting read.
- Paul McAuley short fiction, Rickey Boy is now online.
- David Anthony Durham interviewed at Fantasy [...]

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This part of the site isn’t pretty yet, but now that Heliotrope#2 is live and while we are working on issue#3 we now have a place for readers to keep up with progress on forthcoming issues and just general news and announcements at Heliotrope. You can view such updates here (where you will see [...]

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A bit of a delay between posts, but continuing with my A Cup of Joe feature - This issue is entitled Twin Brothers.

You Know It Was The 80’s Quote:
…and deposit junior here here someplace where he can lay down enough grazing fire to control the whole ‘coaster
What’s so cool about the comics is that it [...]

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