![]() Story by Eric Shanower, Art by Skottie Young, Color by Jean-Francois Beaulieu Though Marvel has published several Oz comics, their latest, the eight-issue Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is notable both for its fidelity to Baum’s first novel and for the beauty of Skottie Young’s art. ![]() Denslow (1904) to a manhwa version featuring clones and cyborgs (2006 – present). ![]() The success of this first Oz comic inspired dozens of subsequent projects, from a competing strip by original Oz illustrator W. With a script by Baum and drawings by Walt MacDougall, Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz ran for nearly one year in newspapers around the country. Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) has enjoyed phenomenal popularity, both in its original form and in hundreds of adaptations, from a Broadway musical (1902) and silent film (1910) to a Nintendo role-playing game, a 52-episode anime (1986), a soulful revue (1975), and, of course, an MGM vehicle for the young Judy Garland (1939). ![]() Since its debut over one hundred years ago, Frank L. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As he investigates his young patient's troubled past, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation and the sex industry, and then into mortal danger when lust and big money collide in Southern California. ![]() Alex disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover Robin Castagna in order to pursue Lauren's murderer. And the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after, Lauren's brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stag party's featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are stricken with shame. Reluctantly, the psychologist chalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of a challenging profession. But for all Alex's skill and effort, Lauren resists-angrily, provocatively. ![]() Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant, borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Alex Delaware's office. Flesh and Blood Hardcover – November 20, 2001 ![]() ![]() ![]() The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.Ĭure Yourself of Excusitis, The Failure Disease Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are.Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. You can control whether those thoughts are positive or negative. A person is the product of his own thoughts.Doubt, disbelief, the subconscious will to fail, the not really wanting to succeed, is responsible for most failures.And believing you can succeed makes others place confidence in you. Strong belief triggers the mind to figuring ways and means and how-to.When you believe I-can-do-it, the how-to-do-it follows suit. ![]() But I pick and choose ideas to include at my discretion.Įnjoy! Believe You Can Succeed and You Will The following book summary is a collection of my notes and highlights taken straight from the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is an original snapshot of a fraying Roman world on the edge of the medieval era. Taking readers on a journey through the region, Giusto Traina describes the empires' people, places, and events in all their simultaneous richness and variety. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change-as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the Byzantine east, and as power shifts from Rome to Constantinople. This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. ![]() |