Joe Rice
Comics That Probably Shouldn't Be Good But Are
- by Joe Rice
- Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 6:00 PM EST
Everyone knows that DC and Marvel superhero comics are pretty terrible these days. Even more people than everyone knows that big-time crossover events are even worse, the lowest common denominator among the lowest common denominators of comics. And who isn't tired of the "darkening" of these comics where often evil triumphs, moral ambiguity is about [...]
Joe'd...
- by Joe Rice
- Monday, March 16th, 2009 at 12:21 PM EST
I'd not date other comic fans.
Do we really need an extra thousand things to argue about? I'll stick with where to eat and whose parents are crazier. I don't need to yell about the relative merits of Joe Matt vs. Johnny Ryan.
I'd have saved my anti-Crisis-on-Infinite-Earths Piece
Seriously, I can't find that anywhere. [...]
Here are some links for you to click on hooray
- by Joe Rice
- Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 7:41 AM EST
Michel Gondry on Green Hornet: New York.
Alan Moore Talks Comics, Superheroes, is Interesting: Wired.
The Colonel writes some pulp: Here Comes a Regular (sorry, that one's kind of self-serving)
Links of note, non-sausage variety
- by Joe Rice
- Friday, January 23rd, 2009 at 2:34 PM EST
Appropo in regards to recent conversations here, the Mindless Ones have a good piece up about the recent issue of Final Crisis (and from my birthday no less!). Theirs is a great blog worth reading often.
And Bob Temuka's Tearoom of Despair is starting off really well. Love and Rockets and Flex Mentallo already!
Horrid Self-Promotion
- by Joe Rice
- Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 7:45 AM EST
So I know I don't post here much and there are certainly folks that are glad about that. But if there are still those among you who enjoy my writing, hopefully you'll come check out another group blog to which I was recruited. Here Comes a Regular is a blog founded by an older gentleman [...]
Al Jaffe Fold-ins in the NY Times (Link)
- by Joe Rice
- Thursday, January 8th, 2009 at 4:27 PM EST
This is pretty awesome.
(Here's the article itself.)
Definitive List of the Five Best Flashes Ever Anywhere
- by Joe Rice
- Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 7:15 PM EST
Comics and nerd "culture" have long been blessed with awesome characters named "Flash. In the usual CSBG style of pentatonic lists, I will now display the absolute facts as to who is best.
"How precious and how fragile all the little things you value are"
- by Joe Rice
- Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 4:56 PM EST
I was excited to see the final issue of All-Star Superman this week. I've enjoyed the past 11 issues in degrees varying from "ecstatically" to "a lot." Two pages into this finale and I was done. It had me; I was taken within. Seeing Kal-El and Jor-El talking was fun enough. I was ready for [...]
A Cry for Help
- by Joe Rice
- Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 10:35 AM EST
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find a great scan of a Kirby-drawn Mother Box, especially if it's Scott Free's? Well I bet the first line of this post has given you a hint about the degree of difficulty (which is pretty damn high, without even factoring in the other awful [...]
The DONK DONK Knight
- by Joe Rice
- Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 5:31 PM EST
Nobody could possibly care here, but since I said I'd put my thoughts together about The Dark Knight, let me try being a man of my word for once. I mostly enjoyed it as I watched it, at some points quite a bit. And there are some very, very strong parts of this film. The [...]
Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam, or, Comics are for Kids
- by Joe Rice
- Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 8:47 AM EST
Yes, comics are for kids. Rather, they can be. And certain properties tend to lend themselves more easily to a child-friendly version, or, even better, an all-ages version. Captain Marvel and the Marvel family, long-time loves of mine, truly lend themselves to comics that anyone can enjoy from 8 to 88 (up yours, 89 year [...]
Comics ARE Good
- by Joe Rice
- Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 8:07 PM EST
It's very easy to be down on comics. There are so many crappy ones. There are crappy ones made, at least in part, by people whose work you normally really admire. Like that DC 0 thing, Jesus, what a piece of crap! And, yeah, it's easy to throw a dart at a shop and have [...]
More Leanna Fun (Wonder Woman #15)
- by Joe Rice
- Thursday, January 17th, 2008 at 6:02 PM EST
The best five-days-from-ten-years-old girl evarrrr reviews again!
Leanna T. on Mouse Guard
Yes, kids can have good taste, too. Hope you folks enjoy and Happy Holidays if I don't talk to you soon.
Leanna T: we've created a monster!
- by Joe Rice
- Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 at 3:37 PM EST
So Lee and her mom were thrilled at the response to her review. Lee started planning on some more reviews. And she even got internet at home. But mom was worried about her getting on myspace and wasting her time. So she asked me to talk to Lee, and I decided [...]
