Ralph Snart Adventures
OH, PRECIOUS BEEER!: I used to own a few issues of this offbeat comic back in the day, and enjoyed just about every noggin-warping, beer-bonging moment of insanity thrown at me. While the titular character's antics and less-than-exemplary behavior never [... more]
CDN$25.03
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What Were the Crusades?
Useful background and approach: Thanks to Islamism, the subject of the Crusades has gained new currency, indeed urgency. This is the third edition of a very useful introduction to the crusading enterprise by a distinguished professor of history at [... more]
CDN$13.49
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Precision Framing
You need this book: I have many books on framing and this is one of the best. I found the info on using engineered I-beams in clear language. This series (For Pros, by Pros) is worth every penny of the price. Technique and experience: This book provides [... more]
CDN$42.00
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Earth X Volume 3: Universe X Volume 2 TPB
Great Sequel, with some flaws: Actually it's probably misleading to call this a sequel; its not so much an all-new adventure as it is "Act II". The same trials and tribulations that took place in Earth X are still going on, its just now there [... more]
CDN$39.95
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Stormwatch VOL 01: Force of Nature
Warren Ellis is making me buy comic books!: In the beginning, StormWatch was a monthly series from the WildStorm imprint of Image Comics - a creator-owned company all the flash & dazzle comics illustrators formed in the early Nineties. In the [... more]
CDN$23.50
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Complete Frank Miller Spider-Man HC
This is Miller in name only I'm afraid...: One thing I think this industry takes for granted is if someone walks into a comic book shop, then they are knowledgable on the subject at hand. I don't fit that description, as although I enjoy comics, only on [... more]
CDN$47.95
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Fat Quarter Friendly
Quality book, but not quite what I was looking for: Do not get this book if: 1) You are a beginning beginner (as opposed to advanced beginner). 2) You do not have a VERY large stash of fat quarters and/or eighths. 3) You want patterns that will use fat [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Essential Spider-Man Volume 5 TPB
Stan "the Man" Lee ends his run as the writer of Spider-Man: Volume 5 of the "Essential Spider-Man" covers the end of Stan Lee's run as the writer on his most famous comic creation. Lee wrote through issue #100, then Roy Thomas penned [... more]
CDN$20.03
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Blade Of Immortal Cry Of The Worm
The best manga translation on the stands.: I stumbled onto "Blade of the Immortal" translations in comic book format. Attracted by the art, and the unusally deep dialogue between the opponents (as dramatic as Kazou Kioke's "Lone Wolf and [... more]
CDN$15.00
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Swamp Thing VOL 03: The Curse
The birth of a legend: The third volume in the Alan Moore Swamp Thing collection, this one may not be the best, but it's certainly one of the more memorable. The stories are amazing, as can be expected, but the true star of this graphic novel isn't the [... more]
CDN$22.99
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Marvel Encyclopedia Volume 1 HC
Waste of Money: Everyone already knows what Captain American, Hulk, and Wolverine have done in the comics. I thought this book would be an (almost) complete encyclopedia of marvel characters. Due to its small size I just figured it would provide brief [... more]
CDN$48.00
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Back Sense: A Revolutionary Approach to Halting the ...
From Amazon.com: About 50 million Americans suffer back pain every year, and chronic back pain disables 1 in 40 adults. Back Sense takes a different approach, contending that most chronic back pain is caused not by a damaged spine, but by stress, muscle [... more]
CDN$19.95
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