now ! It is SoO FuNny ...the characters are wonderfull . . .
1. ARCHIE is so Funny & carless !
2. JUGHEAD (archie's best freind) dosent think but only about food !
3. REGGE a bad & notey guy , who likes to make a fool out of archie !
4. MOOSE the most dump fool at the whole RIVERDALE(their city) & the strongest one !
5. MIDGE moose's girl friend . (regge & moose alway's fights over her) !!!
6. VERONICA the richest girl in RIVERDALE...& the most spoiled & famuse girl ever !
7. BETTY COPPER the sweeteset girl ever ( always fights over archie with veronica{most of the time}!
dear readers I never liked reading like that from before !

I LOVE ARCHIE COMICS! I have only been reading them sice for like maybe a month and a few weeks and I have already fallen in Luv with them I think that you should buy this comic if you wanna see some good stories,you collect comics,or you just wanna have fun.Well thanxs and have a great day.

Seeing the Dark Knight in black and white is what made me give this book 5 stars. The black and white artwork was awesome! I must admitt that the short stories were just average, however the artwork saved the short medicore stories.

Well worth the discounted price I paid for it from Bud Plant Comic Art. A solid 5 star read.

This hardcover collects the excellent 4-issue miniseries from DC Comics. Contains short stories (some serious, some not) by some of the best writers and artists around, plus covers, sketches, gallery, tipped-in plate by Jim Steranko, and a cover image by Jeff Jones. The covers are on art board stock, giving it a very unique appearance. Also includes work by Corben, Simonson, McKeever, Timm, Kristiansen, Toth, Windsor-Smith, Ross, Stelfreeze... that should be enough to get your attention! The only problem I had with it was the brief appearance of Lobo in the Gaiman/Bisley story - can't stand that character.

I've just ordered the reprint trade paperback reprints of these Marvel books. I remember reading and re-reading all of these "beyond the movie" adventures when I was a kid. It was just such an incredible charge to see what Luke, Han, and company were doing between the movies. Water worlds, gambling satellites, Darth Vader learning the name of the Death Star's destroyer(a nice plot device), the blocky artwork and awkward poses of Carmine Infantino artwork, wondering WHY these adventurers NEVER changed their clothes as they NEVER seemed to make their way back to Yavin Base after their Flash Gordon-esque side-adventures... Oh, and we can't forget that Obi-Wan Jedi story with the droid 68RKO (which were the call letters of a radio station if I'm not mistaken)...They really DID capture the imagination. Hopefully, Dark Horse will get around to publishing a VOLUME 3 because therein lie the BEST Marvel STAR WARS tales. But these first two will take you to a Long Time Ago in a Decade Not Far Away Enough--The Seventies. You'll see the pop-cultural impact of the first wave of STAR WARS mania, in many ways as endearingly cheesy as that Thanksgiving Holiday special. If you remember these, you will LOVE them all over again...if you don't, then prepare to be mightily entertained, whether you like comics, STAR WARS, or pop-culture in general. These books definitely belong on your shelf...

This is the second trade paperback reprinting the original Marvel Star Wars comics from the late 70's/early 80's. It picks up immediately following the first trade paperback, and goes forward (timeline-wise) up to the first issue of Marvel's Empire Strikes Back adaptation.

Now, I've already given the first volume a good review, and this one's not going to be any different. I enjoyed these stories immensely when they first came out, and it still gives me a thrill to glance through my collection every now and then. Some of the covers were amazing!

The stories, for the most part, are the strongest from Marvel's entire line. The very last story in the collection, a fill-in tale where Luke and Leia end up on a large ship that is alive and has emotions, is probably the strongest in the entire batch. But there are other great moments mingled in with the rest. I think the issues featuring bounty hunters (including a cyborg) and the role they play in the Star Wars Universe are particulary interesting reads. And the story where Han and Chewy are trapped in a cavern with metal-eating termites chewing away at the Millenium Falcon (while a very thin Jabba the Hut stands outside the cave waiting for Solo to exit) is a classic.

Of course, not all of the stories work. There are some cheesy moments when Luke returns to Tatooine, and a few other issues that look like the artwork was rushed to meet a deadline, but overall, most of the issues are still fun to read.

Should you buy it? If you're a Star Wars nut, of course! But I think these stories would also be great for a parent looking for some good safe stories set in the Star Wars universe to give to their son/daughter.

This book is fine. It is getting right to the point.

I highly recommend this book for everyone who has, or cares about someone who has diabetes. If you ever heard, "test this, restrict that, and by the way, you'll probably end up going blind anyway" and then thought "Why should I?" this is a great eye-opener. This book offers real-life feelings and experiences of other DM-ers (both types) in support of the idea that major adjustments are being/have been required in your life, and there are emotional side-effects of those changes that most of our doctors are not trained to deal with. It has some good tips, but more importantly, helps you ask the question: exactly how is this going to effect my self-image? Great section about thinking of yourself as "good or bad" based on choices that most make without a second thought. (i.e. should I go for a run?) There are also good chapters on how parents feel when a child is diagnosed, teenagers and their control issues, and sex. I especially recommend this book for anyone with diabetes experiencing depression, whether recently diagnosed or going on the 40th anniversary. One drawback - the book is a bit old, so references to the med stuff is dated

Archie Binns (with coauthor Olive Kooken) has given Mrs. Fiske a memorial which provides the reader of the 21st century with insights into the period of American theater (1865-1932) which allowed it to acquire the realism of Ibsen and Saxe Meinigen and a capacity for subtle comedy. Mrs. Fiske effectively pushed the stilted Victorian styles from the American Stage. In the process she also battled the Theatrical Syndicate allowing some competition to preserve artistic freedom. Her work for animals was as much admired by Mark Twain as her acting was by H.L. Mencken and dozens of critics... led by Alexander Woollcott. Since the publication of Binns biography the Fiske Collection has been acquired by the Library of Congress, it resides in the Manuscript Division and is available to researchers.

The LOC Fiske collection and Binns's work provides much of the foundation for the current "Mrs. Fiske: Against the Wind" a one-woman show which premiered at the Smithsonian in 1995 and continues to tour.

Nearly impossible to find, this is an excellent, well-researched and well-written biography of Mrs. Fiske, a now-forgotten actress who introduced Americans to the works of Ibsen at the beginning of the 20th century, later became a delicate comic actress, an animal right's activist, and died broke. Fascinating tale of a difficult, intelligent woman.

This book (Annual?) is certainly worth having if you are an Indian living out of India. I was amazed to note that several of the largest corporation in the western world were actually being run by Indians...people from the so called 3rd-world.

I had an opportunity to go thru this publication and I was amazed at how the Indian community has made strides around the world.
The book has great production values, is well written and unbiased. More information on other countries rather than the US is need though.

The "Uphill" in Uphill with Archie refers to Uphill Farm, the MacLeish family home in Conway, Mass., and with the book's opening paragraph, it's like we're there with the author, William MacLeish, and his father, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald MacLeish, surrounded by leather- and cloth-bound books in the book room of the house, a crackling fire in the fireplace while a cold northeasterly wind blows outside. His father shows William the final draft of a poem he's dedicated to his son.

But all was not idyllic cultured bliss at Uphill Farm. There was a certain stoicism that suppressed expressions of anger, frustration and despair, and dictated that "Even positive emotions were not allowed out, unless fully under control...." As a result, it was not until his parents died (Archie died in 1982, at the age of 90) that William was able to look at his "darker impulses."

Indeed, the traits William MacLeish believes his father passed on to him include, "a fascination with language and its rhythms, the need for control, and an unlimited capacity for worry...."

For years, William confesses, he basked in the glow of his father's fame, growing up in a life of privilege. But the glow also cast a shadow, as William struggled to overcome being known as his father's son.

Eventually, he would come into his own as a writer and his capable hand is evident here, with eloquent phrases, such as, "I can say that since no one lives without bleeding, those who write about lives are apt to come upon some scabs."

Growing up, William's choice of friends was restricted to sons of the socially prominent, many of whom lived at a distance, which often left him with nothing better to do on a rainy day than read books.

Archie was first a successful lawyer who turned down a partnership in a prestigious law firm because he had a "central belief that he was born to be a poet." Setting off to Paris to dedicate his life to writing poetry, he was displeased with what came out when he arrived and started to write. So he stopped writing for several months and read the works of the world's most renowned poets.

In good company as a poet in the 1920s and '30s, Archie often consulted his peers, among them Ezra Pound, who encouraged him to learn Arabic and Gaelic to discover a fresh perspective. But some of the best advice for poets is perhaps found in MacLeish's work itself, as in "Ars Poetica," which appeared in 1926: "A poem should be wordless./ As the flight of birds."

During his time in Paris, Archie's aunt wrote to report she had checked with her literary contacts in regards to his poetic talent and had found none who would support him; encouraging him to return to the law. Meanwhile, Archie's father provided financial support in the form of the same allowance he had provided Archie while Archie was in law school.

Paris in the 1920s boasted a wealth of creative talent, with the likes of Picasso, Stravinsky, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and an Irish teacher named James Joyce who was plying publishers with a manuscript of a novel called Ulysses that no one wanted. Even Joyce's wife seemed to be convinced he had chosen the wrong profession, and reportedly mocked and ridiculed him.

After five years in Paris came the recognition from critics that Archie called "the itch of notice." Proclaiming "I am a poet. The rest can wait," he and his young family headed back to the United States.

When at home, Archie wrote in a one-room saltbox with fieldstone walls almost daily from 7 a.m. till noon, starting over at the beginning of the poem each day, with a good day resulting in a few lines of advancement. After the October 1929 stock market crash, he took a job writing for the newly founded Fortune magazine, while keeping time to do his own writing.

Despite his success, MacLeish was envious of his friend Ernest Hemingway, the only artist he knew that was making enough to survive from his craft in the '30s. The relationship between the two men would become strained amidst accusations MacLeish had sold out by going to Fortune, culminating in an argument while sailing off Key West. They resolved to put ashore to settle the matter, but Hemingway set sail again as MacLeish waded into shore, returning only to retrieve him on Hemingway's wife's insistence.

Later, Archie would claim that during his time at Fortune he had, "produced more good poems than at any other time in my life. So it was pretty hard for me to assume that that was selling out." In fact, in 1936 The New York Times called him "the most influential poet writing in America today."

He would go on to become a professor at Harvard, teaching the likes of Robert Bly and Jonathan Kozol.

William's self-esteem suffered from the emptiness left by a father who was rarely home - or who was emotionally detached when he was - a situation made worse by his schoolmates, who told him poets are sissies.

Eventually he would find himself though, a process described beautifully in a depiction of how, when in his fifties, while out running as part of a week-long retreat, he saw an image of the former child he was come out of the bushes and run ahead: "Then he slowed, let me catch up, and melted into my chest."

William's own experience is most interesting, including a hilarious incident involving protestors at Yale when he was in charge of External Affairs at the university.

By the time you've finished the book, you'll feel as if you've known him deeply and there is wisdom in this honest portrait of the writer's life for all who read it.

Uphill With Archie is a beautiful read, and an important one. Archibald MacLeish was a singular man, one who played a large role in his age of American History, as poet, statesman, and influential thinker. Reading Uphill, one is brought back into an age which is directly relevant to our own, and so the book succeeds as a fascinating document in American History. It also succeeds wonderfully as the story of a son (the author) growing up in the presence of a man larger than life, who had friends like Louis Frankfurter and Clark Clifford, whose personality burned so bright that others nearby seemed either illumined by it, or merely silhouetted. It is a powerful tale of one man's growing older, and one man's growing up.
William MacLeish is a fluent and graceful writer, and this book was a fine companion for several day's reading.

My children loved this easy to read story of a young inventor in the Old West who uses his crazy inventions to take on a gang of trouble making cowpokes. Archie is an imaginative kid who stands up for the underdog and even manages to please his Ma at the same time. Who could ask for more?

This is the compelling story of a despondent man that has lost his wife. She died unexpectedly and the shock and devastation shattered a very loving husband to the point of believing life was not worth living without her.
In the dark of his room one night, anguished, alone, with tears running down his cheeks, he cried out to her. Miraculously, she answered him. It was clear and loud with her Brazilian accent and enveloped his senses. Thus it started his journey into a world unknown to him.
This is the story of his communication with his wife and other angels in his life. It is the story of his journey and the acceptance of the reality of what he was experiencing.
In the beginning it takes you through his doubts, his questions of his own vulnerability, and skepticism. He carefully walks through a myriad of unfamiliar mazes to complete acceptance.
I found myself, at first, reading it with distrust and suspect. As I turned the pages, I found I would like to believe in the possibility, and was comforted by the thought put forth. "Many pray but do not listen, and do not ask for all that is available."
Readers are asked to read this with an open mind, to absorb the possibilities, and examine their spirituality.

If you love the 70s, especially all the great cheesy TV shows of the time, this books is for you. It's super smart and funny, as the author, Josh Osersky, takes you on a guided tour of the times, and how shows like Three's Company and the Love Boat tell us the true story of America in the 70s. One of the best books I ever read!!!!