March 2009
5 posts
The Beats: A Graphic History
Don’t meet your heroes. You know what? Don’t even research your heroes. I learned, a long time ago, that they’ll do nothing but disappoint. Thankfully, before reading The Beats: A Graphic History, I was well aware that Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs were assholes, no, even worse, just plain bad people. Ginsberg on the other hand, well I didn’t care for his poetry the way I cared for the prose...
Battle for the Cowl!!!111!!!
Battle for the Cowl, DUN DUN DUN! Who will be the next the Bat-man? Who knows? The first issue of Battle for the Cowl, written and illustrated by Tony Daniel, inked by Sandu Florea and colored by Ian Hannin, doesn’t seem to be about who the next Batman will be as much as it is about the supporting cast keeping Gotham together during these chaotic times. Yeah, there’s a dweeb running around as...
I Liked Watchmen
The only way I can review Watchmen is through a brief analogy and a few brief comments. The movie and the book both feel like the Mona Lisa, but one is drawn by Leonardo da Vinci while the other is drawn by the guy down by the pier that does caricatures. The movie was, yes, close to the book, but many of its features were exaggerated in entertaining ways different from the book. Literary devices...
Major Watchmen spoiler
“Hurm” is a short sound (hurm), not a long one (hurmmm). I always read it wrong in my head.
I’m heartbroken, personally, by Snyder’s deviation from my own internal voice for Rorsarch. Heartbroken.
Comix Newz! Brand New Kids These Days...
Is it me or is it taking longer for kids to grow up these days? Many young men and women find it hard to start a life after college. Some blame a bad market, others blame the directionless twenty-somethings, but where does the blame really belong? May Parker from Queens is baffled by her twenty-eight year old nephew, living in her attic. “I love him, I really do,” She says over a cup of coffee at...