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Valiant’s Secret Weapons are Sensible Shortcuts and Condensed Character

January 18, 2018

Secret Weapons #0: Nikki’s Story does something very cute with its panelling. I’ve been saying this since the previews: it’s doing something very cute. I wasn’t sure if it was going to be something worthwhile or just a natty little gimmick.

Comic Strips, Comics, Opinion, Reviews, Roundtables, Webcomics

A Good Roundtable on The Good War

January 17, 2018

“The Good War” is a comic collaboration between cartoonist Mike Dawson and MSNBC anchor and author Chris Hayes, examining how WWII nostalgia played a part in post-9/11 pop culture and political messaging. Published on The Nib, “The Good War” adapts Chris Hayes’ piece ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Go Ahead, Skip the Origin Stories

December 30, 2017

Action Comics #1 gets Superman’s origin story and “a scientific explanation of Clark Kent’s amazing strength” out of the way on the very first page, and the rest of the issue is devoted to his activities as a grown-up “champion of the the oppressed.” Though obviously his childhood with the ...

Comics, Opinion, Profiles & Primers, Pubwatch

Monthly Marvel Muster: Building A Legacy

December 13, 2017

Welcome once again to Monthly Marvel Muster… or bi-monthly Marvel Muster, as the case may be. My November was a trash fire, but I’m back now with two months of Marvel news and reviews all at once [Thank goodness! —Ed.]. A lot happened in the last two months. Marvel Legacy is now in ...

Comics, Opinion

5 Terrible Image Crossover Comics

December 9, 2017

Before Image Comics was a bastion of creator rights (lol), they too were just a publisher putting out shitty crossovers. Yes, the Image Boys were born and raised in the Big Two, so why on Earth would they do anything differently? These crossovers were almost all terrible—like much of ...

Comics, Essays, Manga, Opinion

Shakespeare on the Page: A Better Way

December 5, 2017

I was recently rereading Manga Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, and found myself surprised all over again by how much I like it, and how well it works. The Manga Shakespeare series, published by Amulet/Abrams in the US & Canada or SelfMadeHero in the UK, uses a “manga” drawing style (but the ...

Comics, Manga, Opinion

10 Reasons Dark Horse Needs to Finish Releasing 3×3 Eyes

December 4, 2017

For those of us that came of age during the early anime period of the 1990s, 3×3 Eyes is a name many will recognize on the old fansub VHSes passed around among friends and local anime clubs. Based on the manga of the same name, the anime consisted of seven episodes of an OVA that crammed ...

Bande Dessinée, Comics, Opinion

The Best Thing I Didn’t Know About Valerian & Laureline

December 4, 2017

It’s that they love each other. Valérian and Laureline is a french-language comic, originally published over six decades (the late 1960s through the first ten years of the 21st century), and in English currently by Cinebook. They put out single-volume books as well as bonanza compendiums; ...

Comics, Opinion, Reviews

The Metabarons: A Rape Comic

December 1, 2017

Content warning: you don’t want to know any of this. A rapist’s comic, about rape, is discussed and pictured herein. If you visit the Wikipedia page of Alejandro Jodorowsky, you will be able to see that he has claimed himself a rapist. Here’s a section of the quotation with this ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Opinion, Reviews

Showtime: It’s Magic, There Is No Trick

November 28, 2017

Showtime Antoine Cossé Breakdown Press September 2017 This comic does such a good job of simulating the wanderings of an engrossed but unanchored mind that is back engineers the relaxation of sensory deprivation into your reading body. Your brain is tricked so thorgouhly into accepting the ...

Opinion

Valiant’s Secret Weapons are Sensible Shortcuts and Condensed Character

A Good Roundtable on The Good War

Go Ahead, Skip the Origin Stories

Monthly Marvel Muster: Building A Legacy

5 Terrible Image Crossover Comics

Shakespeare on the Page: A Better Way

10 Reasons Dark Horse Needs to Finish Releasing 3×3 Eyes

The Best Thing I Didn’t Know About Valerian & Laureline

The Metabarons: A Rape Comic

Showtime: It’s Magic, There Is No Trick

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