Blu, I will miss you more than I can say. Even thinking about it makes me emo and cross and stabby. Fucking economy. Fucking Stuart Levy. The world is now a darker place. It seems fitting to send Blu off with a column about a release that I kind of love, Crimson Snow.
I wasn’t all that excited about No Touching At All, based on reading the description on the back cover. Life is too short to saddle yourself with some drunk, disgusting asshole, even for the hour or so it takes to read a comic book. But the front cover – well, the front cover is different.
I do not come at this plotline from a neutral perspective. I come from a blue-collar, pro-union background, and although I’m not from Baltimore, I knew those dock workers.
Ellie Mamahara, Blu, October 2010 I cannot explain my attraction to this book. I do not like baseball. For years, I lived near Wrigley Field in Chicago, an experience I can only describe as somewhat scarring. Indeed, my only interest in sports whatsoever is an admitted and frank enjoyment of David Beckham’s person. I will [...]
Café Latte Rhapsody, Toko Kawai, June, 2010 Meh. Kinukitty does not always pick a winner – sad, but true. Let us try again.
By Halco, 2010, Blu I read this weeks ago and wasn’t thrilled with it, but decided it would do. (Wait a minute, the discerning reader might well be asking; just how low is the bar re. manporn you’re willing to waste our time with, anyway? And the answer, gentle reader, is that you should never [...]
Fusanosuke Inariya, 2010, Digital Manga Publishing and Oakla I’d heard very, very good things about this manga from people who were hoping someone would pick it up from licensing limbo. Now that June has come to the rescue, I decided I could not ignore all the buzz about this title, despite my misgivings. Grave misgivings. [...]
Darwyn Cook relegates Wonder Woman to helpmate in Superman’s psychodrama.
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