Status Updates From Illuminations

A noveleta "O que se pode saber a respeito do Homem-Trovão", candidamente encrustada no meio dos contos dessa coletânea genial do Mago, deveria ser obrigatória pra qualquer nerd de gibizinho de super-herói (eu incluso, é claro) 🤣

And, At The Last, Just To Be Done With Silence -
A dialogue between two near-to-death medieval fellows as they are being punished for violating sanctuary and hauling the corpse of their victim to local churches, at each of which they are scourged. Quick and grim and creepy.

American Light - An Appreciation
A meticulously footnoted Beat poem by a fictional poet who Moore inserts into the movement’s history, along with a bit of a mystery/tragedy revealed in the footnotes. Something of a slog as it feels more like research than fiction or poetry.

What We Can Know About Thunderman -
A sprawling and scathing dissection of the comics industry, barely hidden with pseudonyms. Catharsis for Moore, and a great read.

Illuminations - a forlorn middle-aged man revisits the seaside holiday town where his parents took him each year growing up. A melancholy tale with a creepy ending twist!

The Improbably Complex High-Energy State - a downright wacky imagining of the initial femtosecond of existence, as experienced by a theoretical Boltzmann brain