![]() For Bucky, the past is something he accepts and wants to learn from, so he can make better future decisions. Looking past the surface tension of the Kingpin and Winter Soldier's conflict is a story about two men whose pasts control them - albeit, in very different ways. Lanzing and Kelly show an excellent understanding of the deeper layers of their lead characters in Devil's Reign: Winter Soldier #1. ![]() RELATED: Marvel's New Punisher and Winter Soldier Teases Are Too Dark to Be Real Can the Winter Soldier survive a fight against a man who fights with the unrelenting force of a nightmare? Though Bucky easily enters the building, he quickly realizes getting out alive will be much more challenging. ![]() At the same time, the Winter Soldier sneaks through the defenses of Gracie Mansion while facing visions of his past. As he falls asleep, Wilson repeats aloud to himself that he doesn't need to know Daredevil's secret identity. Devil's Reign: Winter Soldier #1 opens with the Kingpin preparing for a night by himself. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() Online is where, at age 19, Lockwood met the man she would marry at age 21. These websites destabilized something inside her, she said they “opened a crack” for her to reevaluate what she had been taught.Īt 38, Lockwood describes herself generationally as “between the books and the ether.” She remembers a time before the internet while still being young enough to immerse herself in it as it was developing - young enough that it could help set her life in motion. These statistics have to be fake because there’s this little dancing-child graphic in the corner of the page or there’s a rose that’s slowly losing its petals. ![]() Raised in the Catholic Church, Lockwood spent the early years of her life absorbing her parents’ anti-abortion beliefs and activist language about the “Holocaust of infants.” But when she started visiting anti-abortion activist websites in the aughts, when she was in her early 20s, she was put off by the treacly graphics and coarse design - how could they be serious? These facts can’t be real, she remembers thinking then. The internet deprogrammed Patricia Lockwood. Photo: Pari Dukovic for New York Magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() You get the impression that the writer really understands humans for the messy, frequently confused and spikey but every so often incredible creatures that I like to think we are. The dialogue was perfect, beautifully crafted and lovely and the unspoken was even better. Their interactions, talking to one another felt real and yet better than reality. ![]() ![]() Instead of “jumping off the page” they hovered at my shoulders like Emilienne’s ghosts and followed me around all day, always at the back of my mind. The characters too were created, vivid and fully formed with merely a few words or sentences. She captures the feeling of a moment or a setting and somehow, across a page of punctuation and letters, passes it on to the reader, leaving me with an urge to jump into a time machine all the way to 1920s New York. Leslye Walton is one of those rare breeds of authors that can reveal so much in so few well-placed words and it is perhaps due to this that in reading, I got such a strong sense of time and place. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following the life cycle of the barn owl, this gentle poem evokes a sense of warm sunshine and envelopes readers with the memory of the scent of a wheat field. ![]() With outstretched wings, this barn owl returns to his barn nest and his hungry family, repeating the ageless ritual his ancestors have practiced here, in this barn, for at least one hundred years. ![]() Feathered against the endless starry night, he swoops and sails to the darkened wheat field below and catches a mouse in his nimble talons. Every night, as the moon rises, a barn owl awakens and flies out to hunt. The owls have nested there and have hunted in the fields and circled in the night skies as time slowly slipped by. Tony Johnston’s THE BARN OWLS recalls in quiet tones the memory of a barn that has stood alone in a wheat field for one hundred years at least. ![]() ![]() Of the many mind-blowing things to consider in the gravitational wave discovery, there’s probably one that would have particularly piqued Einstein’s interest. He confessed to thinking about science in terms of images and intuitions, often drawn directly from his experiences as a musician, only later converting these into logic, words and mathematics. ![]() He wanted his science to be unified, harmonious, expressed simply, and to convey a sense of beauty of form. His example suggests that in being intimately involved with the scientific complexity of music, he was able to bring a uniquely aesthetic quality to his theories. Looking at the role of music in Einstein’s thinking sheds some light on how he shaped his most profound scientific ideas. It’s little known that Einstein was an accomplished violinist, and even less known that had he not pursued science, he said he would have been a musician: ![]() |