2010 April
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 101
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Today, [...]
Sunday Brunch: 4/11/10
This week, I share some links to cool comic things and ramble on for far too long about Doctor Who. So, you know, an average Sunday. QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What emotion-that-is-not-really-an-emotion should become a power ring next, and what color would it be?
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 100
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! For [...]
Weekend Weltschmerz
I’ll save you looking it up. Weltschmerz is a delightfully rude-sounding word for a certain kind of world-weary disappointment, a feeling that translates roughly as “nostalgia for a place you have never actually been and probably will never get to go.” This seems like it should be a familiar state of mind to superhero fans.
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 99
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Today [...]
MoCCA Time!
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s 2010 MoCCA Festival starts tomorrow in New York City! I will be at Rocketship tonight to celebrate the kick-off of the MoCCA Festival, along with celebrating Top Shelf’s “Swedish Invasion”!! I’ll then be at the actual festival on Saturday! I hope to see some of y’all there!
Comic Book Legends Revealed #255
Welcome to the two-hundred and fifty-fifth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous two hundred and fifty-four. Comic Book Legends Revealed is part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds of [...]
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 98
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Today [...]
What I bought – 7 April 2010
“Today’s lesson is, if someone puts poison in your tea, don’t drink it.” (Christopher Moore, from Lamb)
The Boys #41 Review
With the Innocents, Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson are really reaching a whole new level of greatness in The Boys. I suppose that’s what you get when you allow a story to percolate for this long – we’ve gotten such a great feel for the characters that when you place them into certain circumstances, the [...]
Turf #1 Review
In his text piece for Turf #1, the brand-new Image mini-series by famed British talk show host Jonathan Ross (making his comic writing debut) and the always brilliant Tommy Lee Edwards, Mark Millar makes a very astute observation regarding Ross’ writing style – Millar compares him to Don McGregor, and I can really see that, [...]
Danielle Leigh’s Reading Diary — Pluto volumes 4-8
There’s no doubt that Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki’s Pluto is a great comic but I think one of the things I admire most about the concluding volumes is the way they raise a number of questions but don’t offer neat answers to them.
S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 Review
Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver (and colorist Christina Strain, who really shines on the issue) come together to give us an intriguing prelude to what promises to be a very interesting series, based on the notion that some of the world’s most famous historical figures have been working together for centuries to stop threats to [...]
The 2010 Eisner Award Nominations Are Up!
And, as always, they’re a mixed bag! Robot 6 has the full list here. Naturally, from a biased standpoint, it seems particularly strange that Comic Book Resources WINS the Eisner last year for Comics Journalism and then this year isn’t even nominated? Odd. Especially since CBR added Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins AND Robot 6 all [...]
