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Thursday, November 19 2009

Batman/Doc Savage One Shot

By shathley Q

Azzarello paints a world rapidly out-evolving its legendary pulp heroes, giving way to the newer form of costumed vigilante.

Tuesday, November 17 2009

Batgirl

By C.E. McAuley

New Batgirl does not rise to iconic status.

Thursday, November 12 2009

Giants in the Earth

By Joshua O'Neill

Charles Fetherolf's graphic novel offers a visual beauty when recounting evolutionary history.

Tuesday, November 10 2009

Castle Waiting (Volume 2, #1-15)

By Walter Biggins

A review of Linda Medley's ongoing challenge to the fantasy comics genre.

Thursday, November 5 2009

Slingers

By Randy Romig

Marvel's recent republication of The Clone Saga lights a way in this economic downturn: that old gems can be mined once more. Why not republish the hidden treasure that was Slingers?

Tuesday, November 3 2009

Madame Xanadu: Disenchanted

By Kevin M. Brettauer

Reminiscent, in all the best ways, of Neil Gaiman and Kurt Vonnegut’s finest works, Matt Wagner’s opening salvo of his new Vertigo series shows the world still has need for the archetypes inherent in Wagner’s Parsifal.

Thursday, October 29 2009

The ACT-I-VATE Primer

By Zane Austin Grant

The ACT-I-VATE collective makes a successful transition from webcomics to print.

Tuesday, October 27 2009

Stitches

By Sara Cole

Like many non-graphic memoirs that have received loads of attention and landed their composers appearances on Oprah, Small’s Stitches recounts an extremely harrowing tale of childhood.

Thursday, October 22 2009

Cerebus: Latter Days

By Andrew Bishop

Cerebus: Latter Days is the most difficult read in the Cerebus saga. So why is it so compelling? Pure, insane ambition.

Tuesday, October 20 2009

Punk Rock and Trailer Parks

By Randy Romig

Fact or fiction, this is a dream come true for any punk rocker.

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Friday, November 20 2009

Masters of Horror Manga: Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino

By Oliver Ho

Perhaps more so than any other artists, Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino defined the genre of horror comics in Japan, an influence that extends to the West, and also to the world of J-horror films.

Friday, November 13 2009

We Few, We Happy Few, We Bandaged Brothers: Jeff Lemire’s The Nobody and the Quest for Self

By Kevin M. Brettauer

A touching, heartfelt meditation on identity and isolation in a small town, Jeff Lemire is able to redress an H.G. Wells classic and make it as timely and disturbing as ever.

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Friday, November 20 2009

What We Talk About When We Talk About Supergirl’s Shorts

By Shaun Huston

Supergirl's summer costume change -- which included concealing shorts under her skirt as she flew about, kicking butt -- reveals a lot about our changing superheroes.

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Tuesday, October 13 2009

Are Comics Like Reading with Training Wheels?

By Shaun Huston

Reading a comic requires multiple forms of literacy and levels of interpretation. Every movement from word to image and back again so as to create a coherent, narrative whole engages the reader’s brain in distinct ways.

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