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Curses! Foiled Again! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 So, I was going to post a scathing indictment of "reality T.V." and how gullible most of the viewing public is, but then this mystery blogger who calls himself Kanrei beat me to the punch. Check him out, he's an excellent writer, and his blog is a by turns sobering and uproariously funny. He focuses on politics quite a lot, but he's a firm beliver in the "spoonful of humor helps the politics go down" theorem, so give him a read. Just to make it easier on you clicky impaired he'll be taking up residence as a fellow hooligan from now on, so you don't even have to google him. (Geez I just love using google as a verb. I can't wait 'till Websters catches up with that one.)Anyways, the site is called The Kanrei Home for Wayward Lemmings and it's one of the good ones. Read more:Curses
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Money-Making Juggernaut Desperately Seeking Third ... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I sincerely hope that Gore Verbinski's career doesn't end up swinging from the yard arm of what has become his Pirates Trilogy. This franchise, when all is said and done, will end up making more money than any three movies in history, and it will definitely be a life changing experience for him. He'll either end up doing Disney movies for the rest of his life, or he'll beat the odds and end up becoming this generation's Francis Ford Coppola, turning in a string of finely-tuned independent films that make absolutely no money, but are very good anyway. Time will tell. The first movie was a grand adventure that encompassed three of my favorite things. It had zombies, always good, it had pirates, mostly always good, unless they are in any way associated with Roman Polanski. (Not that I dislike Roman's work, it's just that even he makes the occasional expensive piece of crap.)(Also, while I'm on a roll here with this long sidebar, a special slap upside his pointy little head, and a Read more:Money
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AIT/Planet Lar: Part 6 Art, Design & Non-Fiction 1970-01-01 00:59:59 In the final chapter of my love letter to AIT/Planet Lar we get to see the Art & Design books, and the non-fiction graphic novels. AIT/Planet Lar has put together a varied and extremely versatile reading portfolio and hopefully, they will continue to do so for years to come. So, here's to you: Larry Young and Mimi Rosenheim for putting together one of the best publishing houses in the history of the graphic medium. May you have many more years of continued success in this business of putting dreams to paper. Kudos, and well done.Come in AlonebyWarren EllisThe Making of Astronauts in Trouble by Larry Young,Matt Smith,Charlie AdlardDemo: The TwelveOriginal ScriptsbyBrian Wood,Becky CloonanBadlands: The Unproduced Screenplay by Steven GrantTales From Fish Camp: A City Girl's Experience Working in an Alaskan Fishing Village by Danielle HendersonPublic Domain: The Channel Zero Design Book by Brian WoodTrue Facts by Larry Young Available Light by Warren Ellis Surviving Grady by Tim McCarne Read more:Fiction
AIT/Planet Lar: The Last Comics Publisher You'll E... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 So I had this long, overly complex post all prepared about how much I love AIT/Planet Lar, and about how cool Larry Young is and all the sage advice he's given me over the years. I even had a few rants ready to go about all the bad mouthing he gets on the fan boards, and what I think of those people, then I decided I'd rather accentuate the positive, so I threw it out. Instead, I decided to post a listing of every AIT/Planet Lar graphic novel to date, so that I could see it all spread out in one place, sans commentary. If you're curious about something you see here, go check out the AIT/Planet Lar website. Larry is a master at writing promotional copy and far better at pimping his product than I am. This one is purely a labor of love. Incidentally, the best place on the entirety of the internet to get your graphic novels is Khepri.com. If they don't have it in stock they will absolutely knock themselves silly to get it for you. They're good people, just like the ones at AIT/Planet Read more:Comics
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AIT/Planet Lar Part2: Good for All Ages 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Continuing my six part love letter to the good folks at AIT/Planet Lar, these are the comics that are good for all ages, boys and girls alike.Colonia: Island and Anomaliesby Jeff NicholsonColonia: On Into the Great Landsby Jeff NicholsonElectric Girl: Volume 1by Mike Brennan Electric Girl: Volume 2by Mike BrennanElectric Girl: Volume 3by Mike BrennanUrsulaby Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba
Little White Mouse Open Space #1
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Open Space
#1 By Paul SizerBlue Line Pro ComicsUS $2.95It drives me absolutely fucking insane when I have to take extraordinary measures to find things that by all accounts should be easily accessible. In a perfect world, Paul Sizer would be recognized as the creative genius he is, and LITTLE WHITE MOUSE would be at my comics store, stacked ten issues deep every Wednesday and sold out by Thursday. I wouldn't have to tear my hair out trying to find the minuscule Blue Line Pro section in Previews. I could simply grab it off the shelf with my X-Men comics.This is so not a perfect world, but there is hope. While the rest of the comics buying public is busy making MASTERS OF THE Fucking UNIVERSE the top selling comic for November, an elite cadre of comics fans who appreciate masterfully rendered artwork and top notch storytelling, are going that extra mile to dig LITTLE WHITE MOUSE out of the monthly Previews slush pile.This story works as a great jumping on point for ne
Another Loveletter to Saturday Mornings Long Past 1970-01-01 00:59:59 SPACEMAN One-shotMike Allred/Lawrence MavritUS $2.95Oni PressEvery Saturday
morning my little brother and I would get up at five thirty and sit with our noses plastered to the television screen, consuming massive amounts of cocoa frosted sugar bombs and watching Saturday Morning Cartoons. Six hours later, our mother, "God bless her," would peel our hyperactive little bodies off the ceiling. Twitching with massive sugar buzz and phosphor dot induced flicker vertigo, we were then banished to the hellish wilderness of "outside" for the duration of the weekend. But that was okay, because for those six hours, every week, we could escape our miserable little lives. During those precious few hours we could soar into outer space with Space Ghost or The Super Friends. We could explore exotic jungles with Tarzan and The Herculoids. Or, we could just get stupid crazy with Blue Falcon, Dynomutt, and the rest of the Hanna Barbera psycho circus.Pretty much every comic book reader that grew up in the Read more:Mornings
100 Factoids About Me!!! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Being a bit of an overreactive response, and a five finger exercise in getting it out of my system.It's no secret to my significant other or any of my friends that I kinda despise blogs and blogging in general. I don't really get in to the whole "telling people about my life" thing, nor do I really enjoy writing about politics or posting pictures, or prattling on about subjects that I don't know anything about. There are, however exceptions to every rule. The bloggers Courtney and I read on a repeating, if not always regular basis are each phenomenal in their own respects, and I have to admit, blogging is a great way to practice writing without destroying acres of prime timberland.So anyways, I've seen a few bloggers do this meme and pin it to their sidebar, and I think this is a really good way to get to know a writer a bit better. The challenge was trying to come up with 100 interesting things about me while realizing tha fact that, just because it's about me, doesn't necessari
Killing Marvel Comics 1970-01-01 00:59:59 *** Retro A GoGo!***Intro:This is a piece I wrote for SAVANT a few years ago, right around the time the first Spider-Man movie came out. At the time Marvel
had a man named Bill Jemas as its president, who they wisely promoted to somewhere other than spokesperson. I have to admit that under Joe Quesada, Marvel Comics
has prospered. Right now, they are enjoying the current upswell in comic book movie popularity. I doubt their business practices have changed much since this was written, and I still have a sneaking suspicion that time will tell wether or not they've banked enough movie capital to keep them in business once superhero movies are no longer Hollywood vogue.******KILLING MARVEL COMICSBy Dan TraegerI'm afraid the patient is terminal. Marvel Comics is dying. It's hemorrhaging money and like any drowning animal, it can't help lashing out at those of us who want to save it. Part of me wants to just let it go, but man, I'll miss my X-MEN.A quick look at the last quarterly finan Read more:Killing
Idiots And Savants 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ***Retro A GoGo***Intro:This was a recruiting piece I did for SAVANT. When I stack it into the whole "Dan Traeger" cannon, I think it still reads okay. It definitely accomplished what I wanted it to, at least within my limited sphere of influence. I still really like the anecdotal part of this one.******IDIOTS AND SAVANTSby Dan TraegerA special note before I start on this tear. The opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author. Savant magazine and her editorial staff have nothing to do with this, other than the fact that they are, in this instance, serving as my own personal soapbox, which I will now proceed to stomp into toothpicks. All hate mail may be addressed to ruckus24@hotmail.com. Thanks.Every Wednesday I make it a point to hang out and shoot the shit with Mark. This particular Mark is the owner and operator of Other Realm, the better of the two local comic stores here in ChampaignUrbana, Illinois. Mark and I have this long running argument about his not carrying mi Read more:Idiots
Fractal Painting 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ***Retro A GoGo!***This was my introductory editorial when I took over editing duties for SAVANT's Toolbox section. Toolbox was a bunch of printable stickers, t-shirt designs, and viral marketing inserts designed around movies, DVDs and other cross promotable books. I had big plans to revamp and expand the whole section... ooh the plans I had. Before I could accomplish anything with it though, SAVANT imploded, and it seems the idea of comics activism went with it. Too bad, it's still a viable idea. As an article, this really doesn't hold up well. Delphi is mostly dead. Matt Fraction is well on his way to becoming a comics superstar in his own right. And SAVANT is a fond memory, and an internet ghost town.******FRACTAL PAINTINGby Dan TraegerYou can only smash your head against a brick wall for so long before something's gotta give. So, still dripping with arterial spray and picking chunks of my own gray matter out of my hair, I stumbled over to Matt Fraction's Delphi forum in searc Read more:Fractal
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AIT/Planet Lar Part 4: Historical Fiction 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Part four of my six part overview of the wonderful works from AIT/Planet Lar. Three stories of history based fiction by some of the best creators working in comics today.White Deathby Charlie Adlard, Rob MorrisonAbelby William Harms, Mark BloodworthBadlandsby Steven Grant, Vince Giarrano Read more:Fiction
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AIT/Planet Lar Part 3: Cult Classics 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Part three of my six part AIT/Planet Lar love bomb. These are the "cult classics" which have a bit more experimental storytelling than the action comics. These are my absolute favorites in the pantheon, and as a special treat, I have included Darick Robertson's Space Beaver collections which are now unfortunately, and as far as I know, the only graphic novels that AIT/Planet Lar doesn't continue to keep in print. Enjoy.Space Beaver: Volume 1by Darick RobertsonSpace Beaver: Volume 2By Darick RobertsonBad Mojoby William Harms, Steve Morris 1000 Steps to World Dominationby Rob OsborneBlack Heart Billyby Rick Remender, Kieron Dwyer, Harper Jaten Doll and Creatureby Rick Remender, John Heebink, Mike ManleyNobodyby Alex Amado, Sharon Cho, Charlie Adlard The Annotated Mantooth!by Matt Fraction, Andy Kuhn, Tim FisherSky Ape: Waiting for Crimeby Phil Amara, Richard Jenkins, Tim McCarney, Michael Russo Sky Apeby Phil Amara, Richard Jenkins, Tim McCarney, Michael Russo Sky Ape: All the Heroesby Read more:Classics
Dodging a critical bullet. 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Watch closely everyone as master comics reviewer Karen Healey beats the holy living crap out of Harper Collins, Neil Strauss, and Bernard Chang for excreting their big fat bag of violent, mysoginistic bile called How To Make Money Like A Porn Star!I was going to review this thing, just to warn everybody away, but Karen is a poet and when you piss her off, it's like watching the literary equivalent of a Bruce Lee action sequence. She takes this review on with her typical mixture of eloquence and precision, stirs in a helping of pure extract of hatred, and serves up an essay that beats most of what I see in the Comics Journal on a regular basis. (Ya' hear that Deppey?) Her blog is called, Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed) , and it's one of the best comics themed blogs on the internet. Read more:critical
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Let's Get Retarded! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ... or, Why it's never a good idea to let your marketing manager get all "creative" on you.In a maneuver that smacks of one part desperation and two parts mind-boggling stupidity, Marvel Comics has announced they will have a crossover event with the CBS soap opera, The Guiding Light. In better news, the crossover will feature The Avengers, and S.H.I.E.L.D. In even better news, the announced writer for this high profile project will be Marvel's Marketing Director Jim McCann???? You know, I've been reading comics since the age of six. That means I've got 32 years of reading comics under my belt and I have never understood Marvel's propensity for not using high power talent on books that will receive inordinate amounts of exposure.Here's the thing. Let's say you need a brick wall built, you don't want to do it yourself who do you have do the job? Do you hire a plumber, or an accountant? Not usually, no. You hire a bricklayer, or a general contractor, and he hires the bricklayer. Y Read more:Retarded
The Future History of Motor Geek 1970-01-01 00:59:59 A review of the Graphic Novel Moped Army by Paul Sizer.For those of you who don't know what a moped is, check out The Moped Army Website. Basically, a moped is a reinforced bicycle with a 50cc engine that cruises you around at a top speed of about 30 miles per hour, and it has pedals in case the engine stops. If you don't know the difference between a moped and a scooter, it's really easy. Mopeds are bad-ass bicycles while scooters are motorcycles for pussies.At Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo in 1997, three students got together and formed an organization. Part biker gang and part fan club, they named themselves The Decepticons after the Transformers toys, and the Moped Army was born.Simon King, Daniel Robert Kastner, and Brennan Sang, the originators of the Moped Army, have seen their brainchild blossom into a national moped club, with chapters from Arizona to Washington State. But this is merely back story.In 2003, comics creator and fellow WMU student Paul Sizer started Read more:Future
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The Importance of Being Chon 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Back in my SAVANT days there was this one writer who could turn any string of random comics related words into sheer poetry. He was funny, and poignant, and absolutely my favorite of the SAVANT Crew. His name was... Paul T. Riddell.But, my second favorite writer at SAVANT was definitely... Matt Fraction. Matt created SAVANT, and he eventually stopped writing about comics, and started writing them.Third on the list was definitely the perceptive and talented Bryan Miller....And then there was Matt Terl who could turn a review of the most dog-assed garbage into a marvelous critique....Then of course there were all the power players, amazing writers all, including Larry Young, Christopher (Xtop) B. Sebela, Johanna Draper Carlson, Wendi Strang-Frost and her husband Sean Frost, Dan Curtis Johnson, Chris Juricich, and Patrick Neighly.Then there was this Jeff Chon guy. His reviews were weird and hyperactive, and break-all-your-furniture funny. He wrote like Ambush Bug with emoting by William S
Coolest Toys on the Planet Part 1 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It's part one, because there are definitely more of these posts to come. I've been focusing a lot on comics lately, and I figured I'd break it up a bit. Besides this is an easy type of post to do, and I feel more like a real blogger when I post more frequently, sooo....I have an absolutely massive toy collection that is currently residing in our storage while we (that is my wife and I) get our shit together enough to find a place to live that doesn't involve packing us and our six cats into my parents' back bedroom. I've been collecting toys for as long as I can remember (at least as long as comics) and I just love 'em. This series of posts will cover some of the neatest, coolest, most unusual toys I've run across in my travels, and where to get them.First up is the flat out best idea for a line of plush toys I've ever seen. The toys are from a company called Giant Microbes . You can still purchase these babies directly from the source, or from Think Geek which is a very co
Tom Beland's True Story Swear To God 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have this thing in my head. It's kind of my own personal version of a computer installation wizard. You know, the one with the annoying little messages that say things like, "Do you want to proceed?" "Are you sure you want to proceed?" "Well, if you're really, really sure..." "Okay, last chance, are you really, really, really sure?" Sometimes the bastard gets stuck and years slip by while the article, story, or review I originally wanted to write sits on my mental back burner, smouldering and burning around the edges. Lately, I've developed some mental pot holders so I can now grab this baby off the back burner, scrape the crusty stuff off the edges, stir it up a bit, and serve it up with some sort of frilly garnish. Yes, tonight I'm giving you all something out of my very own mental crock pot.Try not to think of it as leftovers, and I'll make it as tasty as I can.Reviewing Tom Beland's work is a daunting task. He's got marvelous reviewers like Johanna Draper Carlson, Randy La Read more:Swear
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Michael Bay is Your Fault! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 My wife tells me that I don't just jump online and bitch about random stuff enough, so far be it from me to refuse her a rant. Let's see, what to rant about. Hmmm... over saturation of 911 survivor's guilt on all media outlets? Naah. Several friends still stuck in Afghanistan and currently getting chopped to bits by a re-energized, rebooted Taliban based out of Pakistan, who's supposed to be on our side in this whole "war on terror" thing? No. Ooh, I know. I'll rant about Steve Irwin's untimely death by stingray and all the Internet troglodytes that couldn't gather up the self control to let the rest of us mourn the untimely passing of a great conservationist in peace? Or perhaps the fact that Montana gas prices are still sky high, even though we use almost no Middle Eastern oil. You know, the same oil interests which our military boys are currently fighting to protect. Of course, it's kind of confusing when everybody seems to keep calling, "protecting our oil interests", "esta Read more:Michael
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AIT/Planet Lar: Part 5 The Epic Tales 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The penultimate chapter of my six part AIT/Planet Lar love-in. These are the epic tales, the ones that deal with long spans of time or larger than life characters. Demo was Brian Wood's grand epic, detailing what would happen if real people got super powers. It was originally published as 12 monthly floppies, and eventually collected into one omnibus edition. True Story Swear to God is the autobiography of Tom Beland , and it is by turns sweet, painful, anxious, and always entertaining. The book 100 stories is an overview of the original comic strips that served as the impetus for Tom to start writing full-on comics.Demo: The Collection by Brian Wood, Becky CloonanThe monthly Demo floppiesThe Foot Soldiers: Volume 1 by Jim Krueger, Mike OemingThe Foot Soldiers: Volume 2 by Jim Krueger, Phil Hester, Bill SienkiewiczThe Foot Soldiers: The Spokesman: Volume 3 by Jim Krueger, Steve YeowellPlanet of the Capes by Larry Young, Brandon McKinneyHench by Adam Beechen, Manny BelloSunset City by Read more:Tales
Why I Hate Gail Simone! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I know what you're all thinking. Some of you are wondering who is this Gail Simone
and when did she piss in Dan's Cheerios. Others of you are wondering how I could possibly hate one of the nicest Comics writers on the planet, and some of you Bendis fans are cheering me on to a frenzy of Gail bashing goodness. Well...Okay, you got me. I really don't hate Gail Simone. I just used that as an intro to sucker you all in here. In point of fact, aside from a somewhat unhealthy obsession with fish nipples, the color purple (that's the color, not the Spielberg movie), Disney stuff, and Canadians, she has always seemed quite congenial to me. I have been told on occasion that she eats live kittens, and that she killed and ate an internet journalist to get her Villians United gig, but the source is highly suspect. Gail is in point of fact, one of the nicest writers I've ever met.What makes Gail unique is that she started her writing career on the internet, and she still takes great pains to m
Mommy, mommy, why are all those fanboys turning bl... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 In 1986 Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons came out with a little 12 issue mini-series that promptly set the comics world on fire. The Watchmen re-invented the genre for the next decade, and today remains a seminal influence in the hearts and minds of creators of such luminary status as Joss Wheedon, Darren Aronofsky, and Niel Gaiman. It is widely reguarded as a literary masterpiece, and a natural for film adaptation.In 1989 Joel Silver, the producer behind The Lethal Weapon franchise, and the Die Hard cash cow, teamed with Arnold Schwarzenegger to try to get The Watchmen movie into production. Armed with no script, and hamstrung by their choice of Terry Gilliam (who has a James Cameron-like grasp of budget, and plays really well with the other children) as director, the movie disappeared in a mess of studio infighting.Then in 1991, President Regan's evil master plan of matching the Soviet "defense" budget until their economy tanked, effectively ended the Cold War, (at least in the po Read more:fanboys
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Deconstructing Deconstructing Lichtenstein 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'll admit this right up front. Roy Lichtenstein was not my favorite artist. It never set right with me that he didn't credit the original artists whose work he was using, and I always found his line work far inferior to the original comics panels he was using. Still and all, his artwork was unique and over the years, I have found several of his pieces that I quite like. I do know that I appreciate the statement he was making with his reproductions, and I really enjoy the controversy over his work that goes on even today, seven years after his death.So, it strikes me as kind of funny that David Barsalou should obsess about Lichtenstein's paintings to the point that he would put up a web site devoted to pairing blow ups of the original comics panels with poorly reproduced, micronized pictures of the original Lichtenstein paintings. The site is badly put together, but as the main point of this article, you can take a look at it at Deconstructing Lichtenstein. See, here's the thing...
The Secret Reason Why Nobody Writes Good War Stori... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 When you make your living cutting brand new worlds whole cloth from your personal mental firmament, it takes a special kind of writer to splatter those brain children over twenty-odd pages of cheap newsprint on a regular basis. For those few writers that have the talent and the creativity, the rewards are minimal, so you'd better love what you're doing. In the minuscule litany of those who love writing comics, there are even fewer who stand out as supernova bright as Brian K. Vaughn.Brian is the scribe responsible for Ex-Machina, which blows the doors off The Watchmen as an attempt to portray superheroes in a real world setting. His teen superhero series Runaways, offers a fresh and infinitely interesting spin on what it takes to be a hero, even as it blurs the lines between good guys and bad guys. His science fiction series Y The Last Man is a twisting journey of self discovery that pulls equal bits from Stephen King's The Stand and James Tiptree Jr.'s The Screwfly Solution, and b Read more:Nobody
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A Review of the graphic novel Shatter, a brief dis... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Most scientists agree that there are four universal forces. These are the most powerful forces in the universe, starting with strong nuclear force which is the most powerful but affects things over the smallest distance. The middle two are weak nuclear force and electromagnetic force, and these are followed by gravitational force, which is the weakest of the four, but affects things over the longest distance. Coming in just under gravitational force, however, is an unspoken fifth universal force that is the true glue that binds the universe together. Gravity be damned, that force is nostalgia. Anyone who doubts this can go find out about Michael Bay's newest project, then get back to me.Writers as varied as Garrison Kellior and Michael Chabon have built their careers on nostalgia. Artists like Alex Ross and Steve Rude have careers steeped in it, and let's not even get into the careers of Norman Rockwell, Stan Lynde, or Charles M. Russell.Nostalgia is everywhere. Sometimes it's a for Read more:novel
Goodbye to the Architect of Dreams! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Dave Cockrum was the chief architect in a microcosm of dreams set to four color harmony. His comics covers were bar-none the coolest around, and he had the distinction of being the only artist to ever sell me on an issue of Rawhide Kid (issue 151 still got it.) In his lifetime he designed some of the coolest costumes and drew some of the most fantastic comics stories I'd ever read. He was always one of my favorite artists, and one of the nicest guys on the planet to talk to at convention. Goodbye
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I Don't Like Mondays. 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I've really never been much of a fan of Bob Geldof, so it was kind of a suprise to me the other day when I heard this song on the radio and I actually liked it. It's one of the few Boomtown Rats songs that comes off more like something Queen would do. It also frightens me a little that I certainly understand the sentiment behind the song. Mind you, I'm not advocating mass murder at a schoolyard by any means... but every once in a while, something happens that makes me just see red.I found this through Jeff Chon's excellent Shrillmatic blog, and it's an amazing piece of autobiography. I've spoken about the state of the comics industry several times with online friends Gail and Johanna, and though I don't comment on her blog a lot, I think Lea Hernandez is dead on accurate when she's ranted about the "frat house" mentality that exists at the big dinosaur publishers Marvel and DC.Anyway, here's the link... We Need a Rape Read more:Mondays
Graphic Novel Review: The Crow, by James O'Barr 1970-01-01 00:59:59 A Review of The Crowby James
O'BarrPocket Books$16.95There are places in our hearts we don't often visit, dark corners that wall us in during the early morning hours. You've been there, just as I have. You snap awake and the room that should be familiar is strange and you're unsure of yourself, shrouded in twilight memory, slipping into blackness. The void calls to all of us.I bought The Crow graphic novel again. This will be the seventh copy I've either worn out or given to a friend. Maybe I'll hold onto this one awhile. It has been too long out of print. It's back now, like an old flame you haven't seen in a long time. Someone who shares secret things with you, things that you keep locked away in the dark corners of your heart, tucked deep within the places you don't like to go. Everybody knows tragedy of some form. The void calls to all of us.I can't tell you much of anything about James O'Barr's masterpiece that you don't already know. After the movie came out, everybo Read more:Graphic
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