Inside The ColleXion: Your First Look At The New Fan Created Trading Card Set

Comics, especially X-Men comics, and trading cards have a long history together. The X-Men trading cards, followed by the larger Marvel sets, started right as the comics hit their most financially successful period. Trading cards were included in some of the biggest launches, like X-Force #1 and X-Cutionerā€™s Song. Marvelā€™s acquisition of the trading card…

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Isabelle: Racing Legend

I donā€™t play Animal Crossing, so the last few weeks on social media have been Greek to me. However, I have been playing a lot of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Iā€™ve discovered something. Isabelle rocks. I typically race as either Toad or Toadette. The small, compact characters (or Light) take turns better, especially on…

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Islandology: Bakhtin & Animalese

Weā€™re going to be talking about a few terms from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, a 20th century Russian literary critic and semiotician. First of all, ā€œheteroglossia.ā€ Heteroglossia is:  ā€œthe base condition governing the operation of meaning in any utterance. It is that which insures the primacy of context over text. At any given time,…

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