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EVERYTHING ELSE:
BOOKS That Is All (Dutton; 2011) by John Hodgman: This is the third and final book in literary agent-turned-author-turned television commercial actor-turned actor Hodgman’s trilogy compendium of “complete world knowledge.” How is such a thing pos... [read more]
EVERYTHING ELSE:
Note: This is a big one. Like, ridiculously big. I'd advise you to skimBOOKSThe F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel (Scribner; 2011) by Dan Sinker: It would be easy to call Dan Sinker’s The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel a love ... [read more]
This is why we can’t have nice things: The week in comics controversies
As a peer of mine said recently after suffering through a few particularly charged comment threads, it seems like the comics news of the past week and a half or so was specifically designed to bring the a-holes out. Race in superhero comics and movies,... [read more]
Comic shop comics: July 13-27
All-New Batman: The Brave and The Bold #9 (DC Comics) This issue struck me as particularly weak for the creative team, which has thus far set a pretty high standard for the book. There’s nothing necessarily bad about “3:10 To Thanagar,” a space-s... [read more]
Let’s talk at great length about Dennis Culver, and how awesome he is.
If you frequent many of the comics news sites I do, chances are you’ve already seen links to artist Dennis Culver’s massive Batman, Inc/-inspired image, containing his renderings and redesigns of Batman and his many, many allies—his sidekicks and... [read more]
Justice League: Cry For Justice
What a strange comic this is.Since I first heard this comic book series announced in the coverage of 2008’s Wizard World LA (At the time it was to be an ongoing series entitled The Justice League featuring Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Green Arrow Oliver... [read more]
Comic shop comics: Dec. 29-Jan. 5
The All New Batman: The Brave and The Bold #2 (DC Comics) One of the many things I like abut the television cartoon that this comic is an adaptation of is the way that different characters closely hew to the designs of the different real-life comics ar... [read more]
6,000 words or so on the last few days worth of funny book news.
(Above: Who is this hippie and where is his tie?)In addition to struggling to remember to write “2011” instead of “2010” on all their checks, thousands of Internet message board commenters will have to remember to start blaming Axel Alonso for ... [read more]
Comics shop comics: Dec. 2-8
Brightest Day #15 (DC Comics) You know what’s strange about David Finch’s cover for this issue, aside from the fact that it’s not very good? (Not trying to be a jerk or anything here, but the subject matter of the book is that the Big Seven Justi... [read more]
Some of the best DC Comics covers from 2000-2008, according to DC Comics: The 75th Anniversary Poster Book
The second-to-last cover included in DC Comics: The 75th Anniversary Poster Book (which I swear I won’t write any more posts about after this!) is Gary Frank’s cover from Action Comics #863, depicting Frank’s Christopher Reeves-inspired Superman ... [read more]
Comic shop comics: Sept. 15-Oct. 12
I really must remember to try and get to the comic shop more than once a month or so, in order to avoid getting a monstrous stack of twenty books all at once. I'm going to try and review my way through a month's worth of single issues in one [read more]
So apparently there was a comic book convention in New York City this weekend…
This past weekend was the New York Comic Con, the biggest and most exciting popular culture convention on the East Coast…according to the New York Comic Con website. I did not attend. But I did read about it on the Internet, and shouted things at the... [read more]
Comics from a 50-cent bin are the best comics
The other day I was passing through Mentor, Ohio and while stopping at a used book store I discovered about a half-dozen long boxes labeled "all non-priced comics fifty cents a piece."There is absolutely nothing better than stumbling across 50-cent bin... [read more]
Waaaaaaay too many words about 2006 comic book series Uncle Sam and The Freedom Fighters
I really like the Freedom Fighters characters from afar—code names, costumes, powers, potential, they all seem like very sturdy, very promising superheroes of the sort many Golden Age also-rans were.Sure, Uncle Sam and The Ray were never going to be ... [read more]
My Free Comic Book Day, and reviews of what I got
This past Saturday was the very first Free Comic Book Day I spent in a city other than Columbus, Ohio, so it was the first Free Comic Book Day I didn't observe at my former local comic shop, The Laughing Ogre (which I'd highly recommend to any Columbus... [read more]