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Tuesday, July 29 2008

Gentleman Jim

Briggs' succinctly and effectively depicts the crisis of confidence that comes when staring down a career.

Thursday, July 24 2008

Bizarre New World: Population Explosion

Krutcher and the world where everyone can fly returns; more of the same, and that's both a good and a bad thing.

Tuesday, July 15 2008

Willie & Joe: The WWII Years

Mauldin was a chronicler of the everyday grime and misery that was the life of the average G.I., "These strange, mud-caked creatures who fight the war."

Tuesday, July 8 2008

Slowpoke

This has bite, but doesn’t draw blood -- there's too much intelligence and logic to be totally mean.

Thursday, June 19 2008

John Constantine, Hellblazer

Taking John Constantine back to his roots.

Tuesday, June 17 2008

Atomic Robo #1-6

Robo goes to Mars. Robo fights Nazis. Robo beats up giant ants. Thing blow up.

Thursday, June 12 2008

Hercules #1

Both Caliber and Hercules offer fresh takes on age-old concepts, but with mixed results.

Tuesday, June 10 2008

The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics by Peter Normanton (Editor)

This will whet your appetite for more disturbing tales from the halcyon days before the Comics Code came along.

Thursday, June 5 2008

Haunted

This is a disturbing work, deliberately loose in its artistic style, which explores the images that haunt dreams and wakefulness alike.

Tuesday, June 3 2008

Superheroes by Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, Michael Chabon

What do Iceman and Armani have in common? A love of the tight, chic and fabulous.

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Thursday, August 7 2008

Comic-Con 2008: Bigger Than Ever, But Does That Mean Better?

Comic-Con 2008 was a long weekend of geeked-out bliss and a chance to rub elbows with everyone from tiny independent comic artists trying to sell their books to big Hollywood stars. But it also meant gigantic crowds and impossibly long lines.

Tuesday, April 8 2008

Spidey Turns Slacker?!: Great Power, Not So Much Responsibility

As Marvel Comics turns back the clock on Spider-Man, returning him to the struggling single life, questions erupt about the relationship of hero to audience.

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Monday, February 25 2008

Missing Places I’ve Never Been: A Love Letter to Alex Ross

The appeal, the madness of Ross' painting is that it makes a scene involving a fight between spandex-clad do-gooders seem almost as important as Rockwell's depiction of the first step to end racial segregation.