1934 / Audiobook / 188 pages / USA
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I was annoyed when I thought we were supposed to root for the racist homewrecking murderer, but when he arrogantly hatches a plot for the "perfect" murder, you can look forward to divine justice prevailing where the legal system fails.
1983-84 (collected 1987) / Ecomics / 302 pages / USA
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Most notable as the progenitor of The Dark Knight and Ninja Turtles, Miller's cross-cultural cyberpunk revenge fable was excessively violent and weird for this wuss.
Peter David, Tom Sutton and Gordon Purcell, Star Trek: Who Killed Captain Kirk?1988 (collected 1993) / Ecomics / 208 pages / USA
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It was Malcolm McDowell, wasn't it? I don't know if Peter David beaming into the series with elaborate issue-long literary puns and a Starfleet soap opera directly contributed to the comic being put on hiatus before a blander relaunch, but this is all a bit barmy.
1995-96 (collected 1996) / Ecomics / 151 pages / USA/UK
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Petrucha's run of the classic comic is still probably the best of this franchise's expanded universes, but he doesn't half masturbate over his own conspiracy here (once again preempting the TV series by a year or two). The stand-alone story with its trepanning serial killer is the best of the bunch and would have made a legendary episode.
Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose, Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit
2017 / Ebook / 272 pages / USA***
Revealing insights on how big brands have been reaping the long-term rewards of content marketing while you've managed the occasional reluctant blog post and wondered why no one's reading your plagiarised crap. If these predictions are right, it's comforting to know that my job's probably relatively safe, even if I need to up my game sometimes.
