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A rather disappointing journey into comics this month, I must say. Critical Millennium: The Dark Frontier by Andrew E. C. Gaska and Daniel DussaultCritical Millennium is a strange mix of juvenile comics tropes (particularly regarding the art used to depict women in the book) and a proposal about how we might end up heading into [… Read More]
Even though I stopped my regular blogging in mid-October, I didn’t stop reading. I certainly don’t have time to go back and write reviews of all the stuff I read, but I do like to keep track and I know you need to know what I’ve been reading. So here are the last of the [… Read More]
Even though I stopped my regular blogging in mid-October, I didn’t stop reading. I certainly don’t have time to go back and write reviews of all the stuff I read, but I do like to keep track and I know you need to know what I’ve been reading. So here are some more books I [… Read More]
Even though I stopped my regular blogging in mid-October, I didn’t stop reading. I certainly don’t have time to go back and write reviews of all the stuff I read, but I do like to keep track and I know you need to know what I’ve been reading. So here are the books I read [… Read More]
So j-term is over and the new semester begins. It seems like a good time to restart the blog. I doubt I’ll return to the level of logorrhea that I used to muster, but I will try to post at least a couple times a week. If nothing else, to keep track of what I’ve [… Read More]
Kill Shakespeare, Vol 1 by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery Like Fables or The Unwritten, Del Col and McCreery build a world where figures from literature act on their own, with their own plotlines. In this world, the real Danish prince is sucked through a vortex to a world where all the characters from [… Read More]
Stigmata by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti Mattotti and Piersanti start with a strange but holy premise — what if a ne’er-do-well drunk and thug suddenly found himself afflicted with stigmata on his hands? What would happen? Now add art that blends the scratchy style of Eddie Campbell with the rounded faces of Peter Bagge. [… Read More]
I only read one comic book/ collection in May, so I’m just doing a two-month summary post. The Acme Novelty Library #20: LINT by Chris Ware Once again, Ware crafts a paean to melancholy. Lint follows its eponymous hero from his difficult childhood (abusive, alcoholic father, mother who died early) through behavior problems, a life [… Read More]
Superman on Trial is a BBC Radio dramatic presentation created in honor of the Man of Steel’s 50th Anniversary. Here’s the plot synopsis from Wikipedia (which I expanded from a one sentence to a five sentence summary): Poisoned with Kryptonite and put on trial for causing as many disasters as he prevents, Superman must relive [… Read More]
Isle of 100,000 Graves by Jason and Fabien Vehlmann Jason and his co-author present a tidy little tale about a secret island where shadowy people capture and kill anyone with the temerity or poor luck to land. Like much of Jason’s work, it’s cute without being cutesy, light-hearted and serious at the same time. Jason [… Read More]
Rat Catcher by Andy Diggle and Victor Biañez This noir comic from Diggle and Bianez turns on this question: who is the Rat Catcher? The comic opens with a fire at a FBI safe house in the middle of the Texas desert, and we’re soon embroiled in a complicated web of characters, motives, and secrets. [… Read More]
Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things by Ted Naifeh I read this comic several years ago, but stumbled upon it at the library in the youth section when Avery was picking out a chapter book to read. I picked it up for us to read together. Courney Crumrin tells the story of the eponymous girl, [… Read More]
For the first time in a long time, I read a lot of comics this year. Looking at my goodreads reading list for 2011, I read 44 graphic novels or trade paperbacks this year. Admittedly, 13 of those were The Walking Dead, which I read for an article I was writing, but the huge volume [… Read More]
Cat Burglar Black by Richard Sala Scala’s young-adult cat-burglary adventure novel is an amusing, cute little romp about an orphan who discovers her destiny as part of a criminal syndicate for thieves. She has a genetic disposition to steal stuff, and the gang who recruits her wants her to do just that. As we’d suspect, [… Read More]