You ever wake up one day and realize how much you like a someone’s work?
About a month ago, I happened upon a documentary about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers called Runnin’ Down a Dream. Great doc by Peter Bogdanovitch.
Having nothing else to watch, I tuned in and it started dawning on me that I [...]
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Just A Thought: Ode To Larry Hama
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Of Mystery and Macabre: the Guy Davis Art Exhibition
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
On February 27, Artoriginals put on an art show featuring master storyteller Guy Davis. I’ve long been a fan of Guy’s deceptively simple art style, since I picked up the first collection of Sandman Mystery Theatre.
Davis has long been known as one of the fastest artists in the industry; and when you look at his [...]
This Week In Panels #3 | Monday, March 8th
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
This Week In Panels includes spoilers, and plenty of them. So consider this your warning. You’ve been warned, so don’t read it unless you’re willing to be spoiled. Got it?
Context is for the weak here, so just sit back and enjoy some beautiful art, and some wonderful moments via some of comics best and brightest [...]
Just A Thought: DC’s First Wave
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
First Wave #1 (DC)
Written by Brian Azzarello
Drawn by Rags Morales
I hate when promotion drops the ball on something I’m waiting for especially when it turns out it’s something I end up liking.
As I duly noted last week, I love the old pulp characters, Doc Savage, The Spider, The Shadow, etc. I’m also a big [...]
Just A Reaction: Nick Simmons Homage vs. Plagarism
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Homage versus plagiarism.
It’s a very fine line between the two and you have to be real good to skate the edge of.
I bring this up because this is an issue that has reared it’s ugly head in the form of Nick Simmons.
The manga and comic fan world is calling for Nick Simmons’ head due to [...]
Diary of a Comic Book Goddess: Garth Ennis’ Battlefields
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Warning! Spoilers for Garth Ennis’ Battlefields books be ahead! Proceed with caution!
I suppose now, that the Master’s major research project has been accepted, that I’m something of a comic book scholar when it comes to the representation of women in comic books (well, at least Jean Grey in the X-Men comics and movies).
I’m not your [...]
I Heart Comics: Random Reviews
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Last night I had one of the best reading experiences. All the titles really only had one thing in common: great comics.
Now most of these books are old, and for whatever reason I only recently picked them up. These include – Garth Ennis and John McCrea’s Hitman Vol. 2 A Thousand Bullets, Batman & Robin [...]
Just A Thought: Grab Bag #3
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
It’s been a while since I’ve done a full grab bag edition of Just a Thought for a while.
Not much goes on comic news wise until convention season hits it’s full stride in the summer. But we did get a few big bits the last few weeks.
DC’s Restructuring.
We knew it was coming and I [...]
This Week In Panels #2: February 19th, 2010
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Pete looks at some of the best panels from this week’s comics. This week’s includes a very Liefeldian Mark Bagely, Michael Lark and the amazingness that is Sean Murphy.
Pete Judges… DC’s Solicits
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Comic Book Daily’s Pete DeCourcy takes a look at DC’S Solicits and judges them. Because he is a sad man who derives pleasure from pointing out foibles.
Just A Thought: Unsung Comic Book Teams
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
There is a type of magic that comes with a writer and artist that click.
While there is something to be said about writers who can also draw like Mike Mignola or Frank Miller, there’s something special about comic book writers who work well with a particular artist. And there are a lot of teams that [...]
Diary of a Comic Book Goddess: Pondering Censorship
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
As I was scouring Twitter, I heard a lot about the Chris Handley case. Handley, a 40-year-old US manga collector, was sentenced to six months in prison for importing and possessing manga that was classified by the Protect Act as “obscene.” The materials in question were several Japanese manga books that contained images depicting beastiality [...]
This Week In Panels: Feb. 12th
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
Things that I Enjoyed in My Comics This week includes spoilers, and plenty of them. So consider this your warning. You’ve been warned, so don’t read it unless you’re willing to be spoiled. Got it?
Dan Slott explains away all that Kevin Smith Daredevil nonsense and wins a no-prize while doing it. I’m not exactly a [...]
Just A Thought: Hell Blazing and Odds and Ends
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
John Constantine has done quite well for himself as far as characters go.
The character essentially started off as kind of a throw character that Alan Moore created because then Swamp Thing artists Steven Bissette and John Totleben wanted to draw a character that looked like Sting.
As in the dude from The Police.
I’m 100% serious.
Take a [...]
Bernet and Abulí’s Torpedo (as drawn by the gang at ComicTwart)
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Torpedo is a Spanish comics series written by Enrique Sánchez Abulí and drawn by the alte great Alex Toth, and then by Jordi Bernet. The Series depicts the adventures of Luca Torelli, a heartless hit man and the cycles of violence in which he lives.
It’s hard to really explain this series without pointing out just [...]
