Vom Marlowe posted earlier today talking about the visual mess that is Brave and Bold #33 Among the pages she pointed out was this one: Vom said: I stared at this page and tried to figure out what the heck is happening. Finally, I decided that her bike flies between panel 4 and 5, although [...]
Wonder*Woman, Zatanna, and Batgirl J. Michael Straczynski & Cliff Chang It looked good on the stand in the Borders, I swear. Three female superheroes, linked arm in arm, strolling over a bunch of fallen villains (including a monkey with a ray gun!). How could I go wrong? Well, to start off with, Wonder Woman makes [...]
Racines (roots) by Pierre Duba Sometimes I mumble an inner “Wow!”… It happens when I stumble into a book that I find great. It’s quite possible too that, upon rereading, months or years later, I also say to myself: “How could I like this stuff so much?!” The thing is that we need the right [...]
I just finished the first volume of Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, and that’ll probably be the last one I read. Partly, I’m annoyed by the conspicuous and painful contrivances — I mean, how many times can simultaneous brain surgeries on a poor person and a rich person be required in the same German city in the [...]
On HU Kinukitty started her monthly column by pointing at KISS lyrics and laughing. I interviewed critic Tom Spurgeon about comics and criticism. In comments, he tells me what he really thinks of me. It’s fairly unpleasant. Richard Cook contemplates the Ant-Man, She-Hulk, and Cable films on the way in 2013. Art critic Bert Stabler [...]
In an effort to stem the rabid tide of spam flowing into the blog, we’re going to try to fiddle with the comment protocol a little. My understanding is, if you aren’t logged into the site, you will now have to type a word (captcha) to show that you’re human. Hopefully this will not be [...]
Bert Stabler was talking over in another thread about imperialism, art, and taste and how the three interact. In that vein, I thought I’d reprint one of my favorite sequences from Tintin. This is an avenging Inca Mummy, summoned by the conflation of ancient magic and the sacrilege of European explorers. The moments I most [...]
Darwyn Cook relegates Wonder Woman to helpmate in Superman’s psychodrama.
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