Mike Mills: Graphics Films
- 172 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Pat Mills, often called 'the godfather of British comics,' is a writer and editor who revitalized British boys' comics in the 1970s. He remained a leading force in the field, known for his work's distinctive violence and anti-authoritarian themes. Mills is most recognized for creating the influential title 2000 AD and significantly shaping the development of the iconic character Judge Dredd.
Heinrich Augsburg, a German soldier who died on the Eastern Front and awoke to find himself a Vampire Knight on Resurrection (Hell), now discovers that Rebecca, who was his Jewish lover on Earth, is on also on Resurrection - but as a victim who haunts and seeks to kill those who tormented her in her Earthly life.Battling the ghoul pirates and the abomination Anthrax, he also faces more sinister forces within his own powerful Vampires who plan his destruction.
Signature recipes and wisdom from the country's foremost pitmaster Mike Mills and Amy Mills, the dynamic father-daughter duo behind the famous 17th Street Barbecue, are two of the most influential people in barbecue. Known as "The Legend," Mike is a Barbecue Hall-of-Famer, a four-time barbecue World Champion, a three-time Grand World Champion at Memphis in May (the Super Bowl of Swine), and a founder of the Big Apple Block Party. A third-generation barbecuer, Amy is the marketing mind behind the business, a television personality, and industry expert. Praise the Lard, named after the Mills' popular Southern Illinois cook-off, now in its thirtieth year, dispenses all the secrets of the family's lifetime of worshipping at the temple of barbecue. At the heart of the book are almost 100 recipes from the family archives: Private Reserve Mustard Sauce, Ain't No Thang but a Chicken Wing, Pork Belly Bites, and Prime Rib on the Pit, Tangy Pit Beans, and Blackberry Pie. With hundreds food photos, candids, and illustrations, this book is as rich as the Mills' history.
In 1916, Charley Bourne lies about his age to enlist in the British army and fight on the battlefields of France, where thoughts of glory and patriotism are swept away by the bloody horror of trench warfare.
New York City, 1919. Occultist Aleister Crowley is holding a soirée, a group of followers gathered to witness the consecration of his mistress, Leah. Non-believers beware!In Necropolis City, Requiem, Rebecca and Otto continue to slog it out, using Otto's prize collection of exquisite antique weaponry: medieval shield with sword blade, holy water sprinkler and volley gun, crossbow with wheel-lock firearm...and a piano gun?!What about the red snow plague? General Salem's troops repel the bubonic-infected zombies storming Vlad Bridge, just as the killer rats stop laughing - and their boils erupt... Requiem is also internally battling Thurim, who's very keen to take over his body and rejoin Necropolis as a non-living member of vampire society. As Thurim gains supremacy, his enormous libido lands him in a very compromising position with the Ape of Thoth. It gets ugly and, uh, hairy.
When Spike and Red fight over a stick found in the woods, Chrissie and DC teach them a lesson about sharing.
This unique combination of cookbook, memoir, and travelogue features 100 recipes, photographs, and behind-the-scenes stories from legendary pitmaster Mike Mills.In Peace, Love, & Barbecue, Mike Mills, the unrivalled king of barbecue, shares his passion for America's favorite cuisine—its intense smoky flavors, its lore and traditions, and its wild cast of characters.Through conversational anecdotes and black-and-white photographs, readers meet a diverse circle of colleagues and friends and join Mills in a behind-the-scenes tour of the barbecue contest circuit, with stops at some of the best “shrines, shacks, joints, and right-respectable restaurants.”Also included are prizewinning recipes that have earned Mills his fame and fortune as a barbecue maestro. These 100 recipes will enable anyone with a grill to achieve champion barbecue flavor right in their own backyard. The selection features Mills own secret concoctions and treasured family recipes as well as choice contributions from his pitmaster friends, and it covers all manner of barbecued meat and fish, sauces and dry rubs, as well as the sides, soups, and down-home sweets that complete any great barbecue feast.With its folksy, fun tone and its unique insider’s take on a hugely popular—and deeply American—subject, Peace, Love, & BBQ is perfect for barbecue lovers, food mavens, and cooks of all stripes.
Twelve Maine lighthouses inspired the quilt block designs in this collection, mostly done in hand applique. The author includes interesting short histories of the lights along with her always lucid, simple directions and diagrams for making the blocks. She also includes a variety of attractive nautical-related quilting patterns for the final stitching, and provides directions for ways to use the quilt blocks on smaller projects as alternatives to combining them into a quilt.
Upon his death, Heinrich thought that he would find eternal peace. Instead he discovered the chaos of Resurrection, a world where the lands and the weather are inverted, and where he was reborn as one of the ruling elite: a vampire. Now, dubbed a knight and renamed Requiem, he is plunged into a cosmic conflict between two estranged gods, to which he could be the key
Originally serialised in 2000 AD Progs 1577-1585, 1632-1641 and 1685-1699-- Title page verso.