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		<title>Mr. Kent goes to Metropolis</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/12/mr-kent-goes-to-metropolis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I haven&#8217;t posted in several weeks, but no, I haven&#8217;t abandoned this blog, either. I&#8217;ve just been exceedingly preoccupied with other things. More on that at a later date. It&#8217;s starting to ease up, though, so for the moment I at least have the opportunity to offer a short new post.
About? Superman: Secret Origin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superman: Secret Origin&#8230; remixed and remastered, but familiar</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/superman-secret-origin-remixed-and-remastered-but-familiar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In one sense, everyone knows Superman&#8217;s origin. At least the sound bite version: &#8220;strange visitor from another planet, who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men,&#8221; &#8220;rocketed to Earth as an infant from the dying planet Krypton,&#8221; and so forth.
The thing is, it&#8217;s really hard to build actual stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick thoughts on Blackest Night: Superman #1</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/quick-thoughts-on-blackest-night-superman-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main Blackest Night series got off to a good start, as I&#8217;ve written, and I continue to enjoy it. The story slowed its pace a bit in the second issue, but it&#8217;s still compelling and suspenseful, shocking and poignant. The best &#8220;event&#8221; comic in years, frankly. (It&#8217;s clearly leading up to the return of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad news for Thor&#8230; good news for Superman?</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/06/bad-news-for-thor-good-news-for-superman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[J. Michael Straczynski]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[J. Michael Straczynski, the award-winning writer/creator of Babylon 5 (and a whole lot of other television and movie work as well, e.g., Clint Eastwood&#8217;s recent film Changeling), author of a critically hailed seven-year run on Marvel&#8217;s Amazing Spider-Man (and a whole lot of other comics as well, including more recently a revival of Thor that brought the character a [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=970</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/final-crisis-6-more-of-the-same/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=911</guid>
		<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>Comics AND politics!</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/comics-and-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, veteran comics writer Bill Willingham (also co-author of the recent and justly berated DCU: Decisions, and one of the relatively few outspoken conservatives in the industry) wrote an online essay about the current state of super-hero comics. He complained of some recent trends&#8230; but also took things a step further, equating his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elevation, from politics to popular fiction</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/elevation-from-politics-to-popular-fiction/</link>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/11/so-what-exactly-is-going-on-with-the-dc-universe/#comments</comments>
		<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>DCU Decisions staggers to a conclusion</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/10/dcu-decisions-staggers-to-a-conclusion/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/10/dcu-decisions-staggers-to-a-conclusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The final issue of DCU Decisions was released Wednesday, completing a cliffhanger from #3. As I&#8217;ve written, the series started with at least some potential for breaking interesting ground, but then methodically failed to live up to that potential. The second half of the series is even more disappointing and forgettable, leaving one wondering what [...]]]></description>
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