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News David Pogue was writing a history of “the first 50 years” of Apple reached me well before the volume itself. Remembering his columns in Macworld, I took a note of when the book would arrive. While waiting, though, I was conscious there might not have been a great amount of enthusiasm for the anniversary out there. Beyond all the problems of entanglement with current politics for the sake of something between self-centred success and out-and-out survival, which ties into general hostility towards “big tech companies,” which might be the latest outcropping of suspicion of “big business” and a convenient system to blame for dissatisfaction perhaps springing from the human condition itself, recent changes to the look of Apple’s operating systems had become another sign for some of impending collapse from within.
( Another side pushes back )

Happening to pick up on a French bande dessinée that told the story of George Lucas making the original Star Wars did amuse me. It’s possible, though, that I might have had a thought or two amounting to “a different language, a different country... a different perspective?” When I also managed to notice that Les Guerres de Lucas would be translated into English and released over here, I suppose I was at once wondering about the chance to see something from a part of the “comics world” I’m more familiar with in the abstract than the specific (save, perhaps, for “vintage works”) and that much more cautious. Some people whose opinions on the subject being documented pretty much align with mine (which then reminds me some who might have the best chance of noticing my thoughts here have different reactions) did appear positive about Lucas Wars. I got around to ordering a copy from an area comics store. Once I’d received it, however, I left it sitting for some time among the manga I have waiting to be read. What brought me to the point of extracting it from the “comics bag” it was taped up in just might have been the thought it would somehow be better to begin reading it even one day in advance of many people making half-joking comments involving the month and day. I did finish it on the third of May, though.
( Getting to one point, and then others )