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Chris Beckett

@cmbeckett1972.bsky.social

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Lifelong Mainer. Star Wars fan nearly as long. Also love comic books, book books, David Lynch, David Simon, David Milch . . . just all the Davids. Red Sox & Oilers fan (covering the coasts). Pinko liberal because "progress" is in progressive.

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 3d

This #StarWarsSunday, a gift from my 77yo mom who saw this stormtrooper costume & got it for my collection.
Despite loudly stating how foolish the film was in 1977, she always supported my fandom & used knowledge of my toys as street cred in the elementary class where she taught. #ForMom
#StarWars

A children’s first order stormtrooper costume from the Disney era Star Wars movies.

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 12h

Drop some MASKS 🎭 🖤 😷

#MASK
#MobileArmoredStrikeKommand

Ad for MASK toys, the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand. A flying sports cars, similar to a Trans Am, is flying across the page, its roof-hinged doors acting as wings with machine guns at their ends. It is being attacked by a speeding chopper, like from Airwolf. At the bottom are a selection of the toys, including these two plus a tractor trailer a jeep and mini chopper. Ah, childhood!

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 21h

5 cents off! Way to haggle!

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 1d

Same. They were great for that!

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 1d

Damn.
He was a legit legend.

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's a spark in my brain, and I fall down a rabbit hole to elementary school in 1978.

#childhoodmemories
#1970s
#ElementarySchoolReadingSeries
#YesandKnowInvisibleInkActivityBooks
#dangthatwasalonghashtagortwo
#thatonetoo

A vintage Yes & Know invisible ink game & quiz book. These were amazing! Hours of fun. I just wish I could have done the games a second time.

Six Ducks in a Pond, the level C reader I used to learn to read in 1st grade, in 1978.

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 2d

Moebius was so good! Such a distinct style. Legend!

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant!

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 2d

I could fall into that skyline, god damn

WHITE TIGER splash page, with the Marvel Comics hero spread across a wide cityscape, looking down on the skyscrapers from above. Art by George Pérez.

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 3d

Monday is just around the corner 😬

Using a GIF, vid, or pic, share how you feel about that 🖤

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic!

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 3d

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know if it was a standout episode, but THE standout memory of the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries for me will always be Lorne Greene as Dracula.

Lorne Greene as Dracula, from The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries.

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

The mind is a crazy thing.

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

Great choice!

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

a man with long hair and a beard is standing in front of a door that says sky one on it

Alt: a man with long hair and a beard is standing in front of a door that says sky one on it

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

Have a wonderful #SienkiewiczSaturday!

A page from Ultimate Team Up. The Punisher has a pistol knocked out of his hand by a thrown billy club. Frank Castle draws two more guns, yells, “You!” Daredevil catches the billy club he threw, says, “Frank, I already told you——there’s a better way to do this.” The Punisher replies, “No!” as he launches himself to one side, drawing a bead on DD. Art by Bill Sienkiewicz.

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently, I will be adding a DC book to my newly revitalized pull list, bringing the total monthly books to at least 2 (Lazarus Fallen being the other).

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

Those Indy omnibuses go for big bucks. Nice score!

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

So good!!

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

a man says " god 's honest truth " in a striped shirt

Alt: a man says " god 's honest truth " in a striped shirt

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

All due respect to yourself, I do love seeing Greg Rucka’s name on that list!

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this has to be a conflation of two memories, but I remember seeing this video on PBS, Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers. But that makes no sense.

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Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

Holy crap! Amazing!
Blevins does not get talked about enough, and the Williamson inks just make that piece sing!!

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

Damn, but Richard Stark (Donald Westlake) could effing write! He keeps jabbing, dropping short, quick, sharp chapters — 3 pages, 5 pages, maybe 10 — and then he drops 28 pages on your head about 2/3 of the way in, and it’s glorious. So good!
#booksky
#Parker
#RichardStark
#crimefiction
#toptier

Butcher’s Moon by Richard Stark, a Parker novel. A snubnose pistol fills the upper half of the cover, with the silhouette of a man in a phone booth and an oversized sliver of a moon behind him on a blood red background. Top tier crime fiction!

Chris Beckett @cmbeckett1972.bsky.social · 4d

Have a great show!