# Comic Critics and "Home Fires"

*The Urth list — 5 messages, 3 voices, 22 Mar 2012*

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### Fred Kiesche
*22 Mar 2012, 17:13*

Comic Critics is a site where "John" (no last name listed) reviews books in
a graphical format. Here is his reveiw of "Home Fires":

http://www.comiccrits.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-fires-by-gene-wolfe.html

```
F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always,
scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
Blogging at The Lensman's Children (
http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
```

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### James Wynn
*22 Mar 2012, 18:11 · in reply to Fred Kiesche*

Gene Wolfe's daughter gave him a framed copy of this.

> On 3/22/2012 12:13 PM, Fred Kiesche wrote:
> Comic Critics is a site where "John" (no last name listed) reviews 
> books in a graphical format. Here is his reveiw of "Home Fires":
> http://www.comiccrits.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-fires-by-gene-wolfe.html
> 
> -- 
> F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. 
> Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on 
> being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman 
> Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children 
> (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________

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### Fred Kiesche
*22 Mar 2012, 18:25 · in reply to James Wynn*

Perfect!

There's a lot of other good stuff there, especially him "fighting" the
unread books.

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:11 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gene Wolfe's daughter gave him a framed copy of this.
> 
> 
> On 3/22/2012 12:13 PM, Fred Kiesche wrote:
> 
>  Comic Critics is a site where "John" (no last name listed) reviews books
> in a graphical format. Here is his reveiw of "Home Fires":
> 
> http://www.comiccrits.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-fires-by-gene-wolfe.html
> 
> --
> F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book.
> Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on
> being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
> Blogging at The Lensman's Children (
> http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________

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### Jeff Wilson
*22 Mar 2012, 18:28 · in reply to Fred Kiesche*

> On 3/22/2012 12:13 PM, Fred Kiesche wrote:
> Comic Critics is a site where "John" (no last name listed) reviews books
> in a graphical format. Here is his reveiw of "Home Fires":
> http://www.comiccrits.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-fires-by-gene-wolfe.html

I'm afraid Dan ninja'd you by about 7 months, but yes, it's a neat comic.

```
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >
```

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### Fred Kiesche
*22 Mar 2012, 18:30 · in reply to Jeff Wilson*

That was during my "sabbatical" from the list. So, apologies.

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com> wrote:
> On 3/22/2012 12:13 PM, Fred Kiesche wrote:

>> Comic Critics is a site where "John" (no last name listed) reviews books
>> in a graphical format. Here is his reveiw of "Home Fires":
>> http://www.comiccrits.**blogspot.com/2011/08/home-**
>> fires-by-gene-wolfe.html<http://www.comiccrits.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-fires-by-gene-wolfe.html>

> I'm afraid Dan ninja'd you by about 7 months, but yes, it's a neat comic.
> 
> 
> --
> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
> Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
> < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >
> ______________________________**_________________

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