FOR DUNEheads: Two 2023 titles about Dune & its impact
No one denies that DUNE and its universe have been hugely influential in the almost sixty years the stories have existed. Many love them passionately, and would love a trivia and facts book about the whole DUNEiverse. https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2023/11/for-dune-heads-two-2023-titles-about.html
July 2014. Dazzling Tula Lotay artwork for SUPREME BLUE ROSE, previewing the cover of #2 (above), and a page from that issue:
I don't even know how to summarize what's going on here because this series is a pastiche on a pastiche of a pastiche: a Warren Ellis revival of Alan Moore's SUPREME — an extended pastiche of/homage to the Silver Age Superman, and Silver Age DC more broadly, based on Rob Liefeld's '90s Superman pastiche/parody — framed as a pastiche of William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy (PATTERN RECOGNITION, SPOOK COUNTRY, and ZERO HISTORY), and featuring some of the most jaw-dropping artwork I've seen in a modern comic book. It will probably not make any sense at all if you're not familiar with the things I've just named, but if you are, it is unaccountably, exceptionally good.
""THIS IS MY GIFT TO YOU.
ITS LEAVES ARE MORE PRECIOUS
THAN GREEN PLUMES...""
PIC INFO: Spotlight on the feathered serpent god of Mesoamerican culture, Quetzalcoatl, from Eric Carle's "Dragons, Dragons, and Other Creatures that Never Were" (1988), illustrated by the late, great Eric Carle (1929-2021).
"In the world's young days,
Farmer met Quetzalcoatl in a field
by one rustling plant.
Like the wind,
he whispered in Farmer's ear,
"This is my gift to you.
Its leaves are more precious
than green plumes,
its heart richer than jade."
Farmer asked, "what is its name?"
And the serpent whispered,
"Maize.""
Entrée des fournisseurs consacré aux artisans de la haute couture et illustrés de photographies de Keiichi Tahara.
Chaque grande maison est présentée par un texte d'un grand couturier.
- La broderie - Lesage, par Gianfranco Ferré (Christian Dior)
- Les souliers - Massaro, par Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel)
- La passementerie - Pouzieux, par Christian Lacroix
- Les chapeaux - Debard, par Louis Féraud
- Les plumes - Lemarié, par Erik Mortensen (Pierre Balmain)
- Les dentelles - Marescot, par Emmanuel Ungaro
- Nacre et émail - Gripoix, par Hubert de Givenchy
- Les plissés - Lognon, par Philippe Venet
- Les parures - Desrues, par Gérard Pipart (Nina Ricci)
- La teinture - Perrochon, par Jean-Louis Scherrer -- Abraham par Yves Saint-Laurent
Giving gifts to a geek? Are they a Dunehead? Then you really gotta give 'em a copy of THE SPICE MUST FLOW: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies by Ryan Britt. I tell you why in my review:
Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma'am! The Smuttiest, Sluttiest Podcast this side of Literary Analysis is live! Episode 1's topic? Kathleen De Plume's Dragon Queens.
Fake Relationship? Public Indecency? Dragons?!? Listen in as we gird our loins and whet our appetites' with this sultry tale of Prophecy and Promiscuity.
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