Members SuperBacon Posted June 13, 2023 Members Posted June 13, 2023 For some reason Pat that hasn't embedded. Cormac McCarthy, aged 89.
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted June 13, 2023 Paid Members Posted June 13, 2023 (edited) My favourite author. Obviously mostly known for The Road, No Country For Old Men and Blood Meridian but Suttree is probably my favourite of his books. It's pretty much as perfect as books can be. Tells you everything you ever needed to know about the human condition. How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it. RIP Edited June 13, 2023 by LaGoosh
Loki Posted June 13, 2023 Posted June 13, 2023 I actually couldn't finish The Crossing, I found it so sad. A great author but sometimes not an easy read.
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted June 14, 2023 Paid Members Posted June 14, 2023 9 hours ago, Loki said: I actually couldn't finish The Crossing, I found it so sad. A great author but sometimes not an easy read. The Crossing has one of the saddest endings I've ever read. McCarthy had a knack for really nailing the heartbreak and pain of loneliness in his writing.
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted June 14, 2023 Awards Moderator Posted June 14, 2023 That’s very sad news. Loved McCarthy’s writing style, felt poetic and suited whatever subject he was writing about. The Road is my favourite of his, I read most of it in one sitting and I felt like I couldn’t breathe for most of the second half. A beautifully structured heartbreaking literary gutpunch. RIP.
Just Some Guy Posted June 14, 2023 Posted June 14, 2023 Roger Payne who, in 1967 discovered the existence of whalesong has died aged 88. Society's relationship with the natural world was profoundly changed by his work. RIP
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted June 14, 2023 Paid Members Posted June 14, 2023 John Romita Sr has died at 93. One of the most famous comic book artists during the 60’s and beyond, famous for works such as this
Loki Posted June 14, 2023 Posted June 14, 2023 Peter Parker as a man in a suit, is something that seems so odd now!
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted June 14, 2023 Paid Members Posted June 14, 2023 Heck of an artist. He and Jack Kirby will have been cornerstones of some comic fans' childhoods.
Dr. Alan Grant Posted June 14, 2023 Posted June 14, 2023 A lot of huge names in comics have passed in the last few years. Along with actors, they’re usually the celebrity deaths that bum me out the most.
Paid Members BomberPat Posted June 14, 2023 Paid Members Posted June 14, 2023 I'm not much of a comic book guy these days, but every now and then I'll buy collections of Marvel stuff from the '60s to the '80s, especially Spider-Man or X-Men, as they were my real gateway into comics as a kid. Some of the most iconic bits of Spider-Man art I could ever think of are Romita's. His covers were fantastic, and you just can't beat this image as a classic Marvel bit: A lot of the characters, concepts and visuals we'd most identify with Spider-Man came about during Romita's run.
Tim Healys Chutney Spoon Posted June 14, 2023 Posted June 14, 2023 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65904644 Former Chelsea footballer and legend John Hollins
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted June 14, 2023 Paid Members Posted June 14, 2023 12 minutes ago, Big'Olympic_Hero'Pete said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65904644 Former Chelsea footballer and legend John Hollins That was reported this morning RIPete, are your equitvalent of the jungle drums broken? The morgue marimba perhaps.
Paid Members Carbomb Posted June 14, 2023 Paid Members Posted June 14, 2023 33 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: That was reported this morning RIPete, are your equitvalent of the jungle drums broken? The morgue marimba perhaps. Death rattle, surely?
Paid Members chokeout Posted June 14, 2023 Paid Members Posted June 14, 2023 (edited) Romita has discussed in interviews that he started his run with Marvel trying to carry on Spider-man in Kirbys style but his second run, when he started to bring in his own look changed Spider-man's look and feel and is as iconic as anything the character ever did. I mean... Probably one of the most important comic book artists of all time and, if the stories coming out about are true, a true gent who couldn't do enough for the upcoming artists that followed him. Edited June 14, 2023 by chokeout
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