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		<title>Everybody Loves Dick!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grayson, that is. (What, you thought something else&#8230;? Dirty mind. Shame on you.)
Dick Grayson, formerly Nightwing, formerly Robin, has had a strong fan following for years, especially since he grew up and stepped out of the red-and-green costume (and his mentor&#8217;s shadow) a quarter-century ago. Now the character has done what in one sense always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The final issue of Final Crisis, finally</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/the-final-issue-of-final-crisis-finally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What.
The fuck.
Was that?
Seriously. Final Crisis #7 was every bit as crashingly disappointing as I feared it would be, and more so. Grant Morrison&#8217;s reach clearly far, far exceeded his grasp.
It certainly did exemplify a writing style he earlier described (warned? threatened?) as &#8220;channel-zapping,&#8221; though, and gods willing no one will ever be tempted to try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Crisis #6: more of the same</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/final-crisis-6-more-of-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My single overwhelming impression of this issue:
Wow, that was crap.
Again.
I kind of enjoyed issue #5, enough to be hoping for an upward trend as this story neared the home stretch. Apparently that was too much to hope for, though. (Which perhaps shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise, given the book&#8217;s multifarious agenda to be simultaneously a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batman #683: More on Morrison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, it came out over the holidays, but I&#8217;m just getting to writing about it now.
This issue and the previous one have to fill a number of slots:  they make up &#8220;What The Butler Saw,&#8221; Grant Morrison&#8217;s installment of the &#8220;Last Rites&#8221; short tales closing out the current era of the Bat-titles; they&#8217;re Morrison&#8217;s coda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Crisis #5:  picking up the pace</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/final-crisis-5-picking-up-the-pace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first six pages of Final Crisis #5 were the highlight of the series so far for me. They take us to Oa, following up on the status of Green Lantern Hal Jordan (not seen since issue #3 back in August). Unlike the brief, hit-and-run scenes that have characterized so much of this series to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elevation, from politics to popular fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slate reports that psychologists at UC Berkeley have been using Barack Obama&#8217;s speeches (among other stimuli) to study the causes and effects of a previously neglected emotional realm, dubbed &#8220;elevation.&#8221; Jonathan Chaidt of the University of Virginia, who coined the term, describes it thusly:
Powerful moments of elevation sometimes seem to push a mental &#8216;reset button,&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batman #682: Morrison’s Last Writes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of Grant Morrison&#8217;s dramatically anticlimactic ending of &#8220;Batman R.I.P.&#8221; comes Batman #682, the first of two parts of &#8220;Last Rites,&#8221; Grant&#8217;s coda to his current run on the title.
In a drastic change of pace from what has come before, this issue basically offers a retrospective, a recap of (the first half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batman: R.eally I.nfuriatingly P.ointless</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/batman-really-infuriatingly-pointless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final issue of Grant Morrison&#8217;s much-hyped &#8220;Batman: R.I.P.&#8221; storyline hit the shelves last week (after delays. what a surprise)&#8230; and the best thing I can say about the story, now that it&#8217;s complete, is that it had some lovely painted covers by Alex Ross.
Fair warning: spoilers ahead. A decent summary of the entire story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, what exactly is going on with the DC Universe?</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/11/so-what-exactly-is-going-on-with-the-dc-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking in from the outside, it seems like there&#8217;s lots of second-guessing and retrenching going on at the number two comics company. With Final Crisis in its home stretch and major goings-on in the Superman and Batman titles, several long-term storylines are up in the air right now, and readers are left wondering whether the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Crisis, so far</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/10/final-crisis-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a two-month gap (partially planned, but also including an extra three-week delay), DC released issue #4 of Final Crisis this week.
And&#8230; I can&#8217;t really say that it was worth the wait.
Here&#8217;s what happens in this issue:  with Earth infected by the Anti-Life Equation, the heroes try to rally their forces against those who have [...]]]></description>
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