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Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader?: June 2010
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Benjamin Marra and I talk about Rambo: First Blood Part II. For The House Next Door. S "Summer of '85" series, Benjamin Marra ( Night Business. Lil B album covers) and I discussed Rambo: First Blood Part II. The guy just gets decimated. Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard. 1 “The Battle of the Hawk’s Mouse and The Fox’s Mouse”. David Petersen’s Mouse Guard: Fall. Despite Petersen's rarefied, handmade world, Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard. Shows the comic handed over to other creators. The legends wo...
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Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader?: Frank Miller Week: Miller and Gravity's Rainbow
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Frank Miller Week: Miller and Gravity's Rainbow. If I had been involved in the decision making which resulted in Frank Miller's commission to illustrate the cover for a new edition of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Miller's would likely not have been the first name to come to my mind. Rick Veitch, whose Maximortal. But leaving aside for the moment Miller's suitability for the job, it is important to point out that comics are really central to what Pynchon does in Gravity's Rainbow. Comes before the ...
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Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader?: Baltimore Comic-Con 2010: Year Of The Whitebox
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Baltimore Comic-Con 2010: Year Of The Whitebox. Every year the first hour is almost overwhelming, the sense of "fuck, where the hell am I going to start? I've been looking for these issues for a long time but usually all you can find are the Marvel ones. This is the Japanese Godzilla comic where he doesn't even show up in the first issue, and instead of focusing on the army or Godzilla himself, it's about the people who were affected by the bomb and Godzilla's attacks. Or Ren and Stimpy. Fame Nakazawa is...
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Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader?: we moved.
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Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader?: Baltimore Comic Con 2010: Without A Plan
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Baltimore Comic Con 2010: Without A Plan. Going to a comic con is in some ways like a job. At least the people with their laptops and four page printed out lists seem to approach it that way. In the back of my mind I've always had the desire to go all-out, officially fill-in all the missing pieces to different series, and to remember all the things that I actually want to get. I'd been looking for this series for a while with no success. Reminded by this. Jim Mahfood has been on my radar. An adaption of ...
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Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader?: Frank Miller Week: Jurassic Park Cover
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Frank Miller Week: Jurassic Park. To the left, to the left" is where Beyonce is going to move all your shit when you do wrong. Why left? Most human left hands are non-dominant and religions often revere the right hand/side of the body. So, I guess the left is the less significant side. But we read from LEFT to right. This Frank Miller cover for Jurassic Park. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Death To The Universe. I Love Rob Liefeld. The Kid's Comic Book Reviews. Add Us on Facebook!
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Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader?: Frank Miller Week: Green Lantern-Superman: Legend of the Green Flame Cover
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Frank Miller Week: Green Lantern-Superman: Legend of the Green Flame. As mentioned in Monique’s post. Miller draws the clawed leg coming from the left side of the image, the beast largely unseen, pulling our eyes slowly to the right. While he uses this trick again to direct us along the picture, his intentions are different, it tells a story in itself, forcing us to ask what the beast is, where it came from, and how did Superman and Green Lantern come to be in it's possession? Death To The Universe.
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Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader?: Frank Miller Week: "Lance Blastoff" Panel-By-Panel
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Frank Miller Week: "Lance Blastoff" Panel-By-Panel. Here's the thing about Frank Miller's politics. If my rambling, non-commital piece from Monday. Didn't already say it without saying it, the dude's worldview is pretty nuanced and complicated. And really, the best way to parse it out is through um you know, actually reading the work. This "Lance Blastoff" story from the very strange Dark Horse-released one-shot Tales To Offend. Is a good place to start figuring out what the deal is with Frank Miller.
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Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader?: Alex Ross: Political Muckraker
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Alex Ross: Political Muckraker. This image is the least effective but the most clear in its message and again, kind of invokes turn of the century era political cartooning in that it's just a immediate and telling image. Ross has some fun with the posing and Bush's face, finding a weird balance between our President's likeness and stature and throwing in some small percentage of Bela Lugosi physicality in there too. That comes out this week and it's one of the better Ross images in a long time. Not only ...
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Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader?: August 2010
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Frank Miller Week: Green Lantern-Superman: Legend of the Green Flame. As mentioned in Monique’s post. Miller draws the clawed leg coming from the left side of the image, the beast largely unseen, pulling our eyes slowly to the right. While he uses this trick again to direct us along the picture, his intentions are different, it tells a story in itself, forcing us to ask what the beast is, where it came from, and how did Superman and Green Lantern come to be in it's possession? Frank Miller Week: Bone.
