• • One Shot for the Week of November 28th 2012 
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[In Nowhere Men] four of the world’s greatest scientist come together to form World Corp., an organization meant to improve the world through...bioengineering? Space travel...? Clean energy...? Let’s just say all manner of science-y things. Jump forward several decades and the Liverpool-inspired quartet are in-fighting, down one man, and opening uncurable nightmares that can’t be closed. Where did it all go wrong? Well...that might have to do with the fact that one of their members loves him some Ayn Rand.  

• • • Ayn Rand’s enduring impact centerpiece of new Female Force biography comic 

Atlas Shrugged  |The Fountainhead  |Capitalism  |Egoism  |Image  | As her philosophies continue to resonate in modern political thought and academic debate, Any Rand’s enduring impact serves as the centerpiece for an upcoming biography comic book from Bluewater Productions featuring her life and legacy. “Female Force: Ayn Rand,” scheduled for release in May, provides an entertaining yet scholarly look at the author of such seminal works as “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.”  

• • Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko 
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Review of the book by Blake Bell.
Not only is [Steve Ditko] the co-creator of Marvel Comic’s Spider-Man and creator of Dr. Strange, he is, without question, the leading proponent in comics of the Objectivist philosophy of life established by writer and novelist Ayn Rand. Objectivism is similar to libertarianism. He has paid a heavy price for that philosophy; Ditko has never received the financial remuneration he deserves, admittedly because of the restrictive contracts that he signed when it was common to do so in the publishing industry.  

• Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell 
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Book review.
Of course, many readers will want dirty laundry: the nitty gritty details of Ditko’s philosophical clashes with his contemporaries and publishers (sometimes involving his dedication to Ayn Rand and objectivism) and his on-again/off-again time at Marvel Comics (1955-66).