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Tag Archives: Comics
Graphically Reading
Time to catch up on a few graphic novel titles I’ve read recently: :: Water Baby by Ross Campbell is a different kind of story, certainly. I didn’t much enjoy it, but it’s OK. A female surfer named Brody loses … Continue reading
Bone
UPDATE: Welcome, readers of Boneville, and thanks to Jeff Smith for the link. I’ve read a few graphic novels lately that I’ve procrastinated posting about, so here goes. I’ve seen Jeff Smith‘s name mentioned a lot in comics circles as … Continue reading
Moving forward – the same direction as always.
I wrote once before on the initial graphic novel set in the Firefly universe, Those Left Behind. Now there are two such graphic novels; Those Left Behind has been joined by Better Days. While I’ll pretty much jump at nearly … Continue reading
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Graphically Reading
Want a foolproof way to get some good graphic novels to read? Grab any edition of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror – the ones edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow (at least until a couple of years ago, … Continue reading
Stupid Thoughts that Randomly Popped Into My Head
OK, so for some reason, I was thinking about Galactus. He’s the Marvel Comics supervillain who basically flies around the Universe eating planets, because that’s what he eats: planets. So I was thinking, does he get in the mood for … Continue reading
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Great Moments in Sequential Art
This panel from a recent installment of Pearls Before Swine made me laugh uproariously: The storyline here was amusing — the trio of stupid crocodiles adopting superpowers, each relating to obscure office skills like doorstopping, stapling, and removing paper jams … Continue reading
FOOB-ar
It’s been a while since I bitched about For Better or For Worse, and since the strip is apparently “ending” sometime soon (next month, I believe), I won’t have too many more opportunities. So! One of the annoying tics of … Continue reading
“I’ve recently spent a spell of time being dead.”
I don’t remember where I first saw The Rule of Death linked, so thanks to whomever, but I’m hooked. It’s a web-comic that’s a Western about a man named Pete who, having died, decides that he’d just as soon not … Continue reading
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The Big Red Cheese (and that other guy)
I have a couple of new reviews up at Green Man Review. First I look at Jeff Smith’s recent graphic novel treatment of Captain Marvel, SHAZAM! The Monster Society of Evil, which I liked a lot, and Kevin J. Anderson’s … Continue reading
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Wake me when the serial killer gets here
I used to actually enjoy For Better or For Worse, but like everybody else, I read it daily now out of the same compulsion that impels me to crane my neck for a better glimpse when I drive by a … Continue reading