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Comics
Thursday, July 9 2009
By Ian Chant
This collection proves that not all artistic relics warrant being unearthed.
Tuesday, July 7 2009
By Erik Hinton
Moomin owes much of its unique brilliance to its inversion of traditional argumentation. Whereas it is not unusual for an essay to recourse to fantastic thought experiment to complement its strict reasoning, Moomin builds strictly verisimilar situations out of an aesthetics of wild illogic.
Thursday, June 25 2009
By shathley Q
Corporate compromise or faulty execution the tale of a Ghost Rider addict cannot be told.
Tuesday, June 23 2009
By shathley Q
Cynical merchandizing, or an attempt at regaining readers trust? DC make an implicit argument for sustaining the recent 'death' of Batman Bruce Wayne.
Thursday, June 18 2009
By Sara Cole
The world of The Bun Field is one in which the reader is forced into the child-like state of both unbridled imagination, coupled with uncertainty, and a certain inability to quite fathom what is happening around oneself.
Thursday, June 11 2009
By Teresa Jusino
"A creative team should not impose themselves on a title, but instead should become a part of it. It is the difference between being an obvious tourist and getting to know the locals."
Thursday, June 4 2009
By Ian Chant
Warren Ellis’ violent, vicious, hilarious and horrifying vision of the future remains entrenched in a bleak and amoral future, where human beings are vat cloned as fast food livestock, media buys include subliminal bombs that buy ad space in your dreams and Star Trek style replicators are operated by AI addicted to cybernetic drugs.
Tuesday, June 2 2009
By shathley Q
On the one hand, Sienkiewicz's art is vivid, semi-abstract. On the other hand, Sienkiewicz exceeds in storytelling, not only visual but literary as well.
Thursday, May 28 2009
By shathley Q
Millar presents something new, and infinitely engaging; superheroes facing the cultural ramifications of global disaster.
Wednesday, May 27 2009
By Greg Oleksiuk
An anthology series that is more than it seems that returns Vertigo to its roots.
more  Features
Wednesday, July 8 2009
By shathley Q
This comic offers a profound meditation on the far-reaching effects the confluence of a literary revolution, engineering miracle and scientific doctrine would have on popular culture.
Thursday, June 18 2009
By shathley Q
This edition of "Iconographies" looks at the rise in popularity of the comics convention, and the pop-cultural changes conventions have brought to comics.
Thursday, July 9 2009
By Shaun Huston
We needn’t substitute our daily fears with the supernatural to understand what it means to adopt different identities for different purposes and to feel both tied to and apart from others, but in Barbara’s case, it helps.
(more Worlds in Panels)
Tuesday, July 7 2009
By Monte Williams
Tomine has a gift for capturing body language and facial expressions -- his characters often say more in a silent panel than most say with an entire word balloon.
(more Lowbrow Literati)
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