Tony Hart RIP

TONY HART
1925-2009

Patrick McGoohan & Ricardo Montalban RIP

PATRICK MCGOOHAN

1928-2009

RICARDO MONTALBAN
1920-2009

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year to everyone.
This is the very final CosmoBells post - I'm quitting after this. Too much personal stuff going on which I have to sort out and it will take some time. So thanks and goodbye. You've all been great! :)

Final note: I won't be deleting this blog (or the links) and I might return at a later date if and when I'm good and ready. ;)

All the best,
Cosmo.

Merry Christmas from CosmoBells!

Season's greetings to one and all! ;)
That's it from CosmoBells for this year - I'm taking a long break to sort myself out.
Thanks to everyone who continues to visit and enjoy the site. I hope to be back sometime in the New Year (most likely January but we'll see). Until then, take care and all the best. Comments will be switched off until I return. So see you in 2009, all being well!

X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut.

Cosmic Odyssey

Originally a four issue limited series back in 1988, here we have the trade paperback of DC Comics' excellent Cosmic Odyssey. An epic story from the legendary Jim Starlin (writer) and the always superb Mike Mignola (artist) starring Superman, Batman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Starfire (always fancied her!), Adam Strange, Dr. Fate, The Demon, Darkseid and Jack Kirby's New Gods.

The plot: Highfather of New Genesis summons Superman, Batman, Starfire, J'onn J'onzz, Green Lantern John Stewart, and Jason Blood to help contain the Anti-Life Equation that Metron has unleashed upon the universe. The heroes are spilt up into teams to keep the Equation from destroying specific worlds that would create a black hole of the cosmos.

Cosmic Odyssey
DC Comics
1988
102 mb

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Adam Strange

Here we have a huge batch of comics starring or co-starring cult classic DC Comics sci-fi superhero Adam Strange. Created by legendary comics writer Gardner Fox and artist Mike Sekowsky (best known for his work on Justice League of America during the late 60s and early 70s), Adam first appeared in issue #17 of DC's Showcase comic in November, 1958. The title was a successful testing ground for new characters to see how popular they could be before giving them their own series. After three issues, the character moved to DC's legendary classic sci-fi comic Mystery In Space for a long run which ended with #100 (although the character returned for one more issue with #102).
After his tenure in Mystery In Space and for most of the remaining Silver Age era of comic books, Adam Strange was pigeon-holed as a guest-starrer, popping up in various books such as Justice League of America (brilliant comic - one of my all-time faves and one of the first American comic titles I ever bought - got hooked on the Earth-1 meets Earth-2 superhero stories!), Hawkman, Green Lantern and the excellent team up comics The Brave and the Bold (teamed up with Batman) and DC Comics Presents (teamed up with Superman).

In recent times, there has been a resurgance in Adam Strange material from DC Comics - the character seems to be quite popular at the moment and has appeared in many books in the last few years such as Infinite Crisis and 52 and their various spin-offs, Hawkman, various one-shots, mini-series and whatever.
Note that this batch basically just covers Adam Strange's presence in the Silver Age era of the DC Universe, with the exception of the "post-Crisis" 1990 mini-series, and also features no reprint series such as Strange Adventures, Essential Showcase and DC Super Stars (for example). Also, note that I don't claim this to be "complete" in any way as these comic book characters tend to crop up all over the place throughout the DC Universe books often for a brief cameo panel or two and it would be silly to include such books purely on that basis (although there are probably a couple in there). I hope that what I have included in the pack is sufficient for anyone wanting a decent collection of "classic era" Adam Strange comics. Also, there are a couple of mini/maxi-series that co-starred Adam Strange that I'll be posting soon such as Cosmic Odyssey and the all-time classic Crisis On Infinite Earths.

Originally I intended to include everything up to the present day but changed my mind at the last minute. Reason for this is 1) I want to avoid messy continuity confusion between the later and modern versions of the character and 2) I just don't want to spend forever uploading hundreds of comics which happen to feature Adam Strange! I may put together another Adam Strange pack at a later date focusing on the modern/later/current version(s). Maybe.

So, anyway, what's in this batch? Here goes...

Pack 1:
Showcase #17-19 (1958-1959)
Mystery In Space #53-100 & 102 (1959-1965)
Strange Adventures #222 (1970)

Pack 2:
Showcase #101-103 (1978)
Green Lantern #132-147 (1980-1981)
The Brave and the Bold #90, 161 & 190 (1970-1982)
Hawkman #18-19 (1967)
Justice League of America #24, 100, 120-121, 138-139 & 200 (1960-1982)
DC Comics Presents #3 & 82 (1978-1985)
Swamp Thing #46, 57-58 (1986-1987)
World's Finest Comics #262-264 (1980)
Adam Strange 4-issue mini-series (1990)

Adam Strange
DC Comics
1958-1990

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Pack 2 (717 mb)
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COSMOLICIOUS! 3

Cor blimey! It's Cosmolicious! 3 indeed! So says legendary and fellow "Whizz-Kid" Sweet Tooth!
This time, a totally different helping of eclectic tracks spanning electronica, electro pop, avant garde, dance, rock, classical and genre-busting experimentalism. And then some.

"SWEET TOOTH presents COSMOLICIOUS! 3"

1. Saint Etienne - "There There My Brigadier"
2. Sparks - "Academy Award Performance"
3. Michael Nyman - "L'Escargot"
4. Cornelius - "Freefall"
5. The Associates - "Bap De La Bap"
6. Bruce Haack - "Bods"
7. Bobby Conn - "Baby Man"/"Baby Man (refrain)"
8. Ben Anderson - "Ashes to Ashes (8-bit remake)"
9. Scott 4 - "Scott 4 Travel On Electric Trains"
10. Cardiacs - "Horsehead"
11. Riz Ortolani - "Il Corpo di Linda"
12. Pascal Auriat & Shuki Levy - "Ulysse"
13. Frank Zappa - "No Not Now"
14. Paddy Kingsland - "The Panel Beaters"
15. Happy Mondays - "Weather"
16. Denim - "Running In The City"
17. Peter Thomas Sound Orchester - "Basso Secco"
18. Air - "Sexy Boy (Vienna, 2001)"
19. Delia Derbyshire - "Colour"
20. Gary Numan - "Films"
21. The Webb Brothers - "I'm Over And I Know It"
22. Robert Farnon - "Drumdramatics 10"

Running time: 93:54

215 mb
Encoded @ 320 kbps
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De Jurk (The Dress)

One of my all-time favourite movies, De Jurk aka The Dress is a brilliant black comedy from Dutch writer/director/actor Alex van Warmerdam. Co-starring Henri Garcin, Ariane Schluter, Rijk de Gooyer, Elizabeth Hoytink, Olga Zuiderhoek, Eric van der Donk and the absolutely gorgeous Dutch actress and singer Ricky Koole.

The plot: The Dress is a tale filled with sex, violence, comedy and drama as it follows the life of a dress. Conceived under a cloud of frustration and despair, the dress serves as the hub in a great wheel of misfortune in an extraordinary sequence of events that envelopes both the dress and those fatefully drawn into its universe. An aloof artist, a virginal school girl, an unfulfilled maid, a lowly train conductor and a broken business executive, all become involuntary players in a macabre game of tag. No one who comes in contact with the dress can escape its dramatic, shocking and hilarious consequences.

De Jurk
1996
Country: Netherlands
Language: Dutch
Subtitles: English ("srt" file)
XVID
Approx. 94 mins
1,36 GB

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