Brett Mobley has been an engineer, a technical writer, and crazy-cat guy. Seriously: cats! Brett is almost a game-designer, a novelist, and a playwright. Brett hold’s a Master’s degree in English Literature, which is put to good use writing manuals for airplane radios.
Features
Friday, May 24 2013
Eliot, then Chopin: Investigating 'The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes'
Before Sandman, huh? Well that must mean there's at least a Sandman before, Before Sandman. So let's start at the beginning…
Friday, May 17 2013
Drawn Back Into Dreaming: Spotlight on Neil Gaiman's "Sandman"
Why would Neil Gaiman return to the proverbial scene of the crime, the scene of his greatest, grandest, longest-running comics success, the Sandman? Perhaps the answer lies in the work itself…
Thursday, May 9 2013
Great Literature, Circuits Through Time: A Deeper Look at "Saga #12"
Great literature is instantly recognizable, regardless of how its stories are relocated in historical context. Brian K. Vaughan's Saga reminds us that the same is easily true for the medium of comics…
Wednesday, May 1 2013
That Metal in Your Bones Soundtrack: The Music of Iron Man
Iconic sound effects like Wolverine's snikt or Spider-Man's thwip have always been crucial in comics storytelling. Iron Man and Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau has shown how the right soundtrack can come to identify a superhero in the same way on the big screen…
Reviews
Monday, April 15 2013
Eros, Thanatos, and the Mechanized Body: "Saga #12"
The question at stake isn't whether Apple "censored" Saga #12 based on depictions of homosexual sex acts (they didn't), or even whether or not comiXology might be bigoted, the real question is far larger than that…
Wednesday, January 30 2013
Abject of Your Desire: "Final Night #2"
Final Night ties together two of writer Steve Niles' landmark creator-owned properties--Criminal Macabre and 30 Days of Night. It also reads like the perfect body horror…
Wednesday, January 23 2013
Second Guessing the Exits: "Black Beetle: No Way Out #1"
It's not as if the pulp-noir genre has ever really relied on anything being heavily defined, and this is an aspect of the genre that writer-artist Francesco Francavilla relies on heavily in Black Beetle: No Way Out…
Thursday, March 1 2012
Come to Judgment: Mike Mignola & John Arcudi's "Hell on Earth"
The Long Death is opening mini in the event series B.P.R.D: Hell on Earth. With a keen eye for subtle characterization, writers Mike Mignola and John Arcudi explore a Hell that has already arrived.
Tuesday, January 24 2012
A Zombie King's Quest for Restoration in "Valen the Outcast"
In Valen the Outcast writer Michael Alan Nelson reverses the usual trend of the Zombie genre by presenting a king-turned-zombie on a quest for redemption.
