Joe Rice
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 […]
Leanna T. Reviews Wonder Woman
- by Joe Rice
- Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 at 4:17 AM EST
So I thought I’d post this here, since Brian thought it’d be a good idea. Leanna is a former student of mine, a brilliant young lady of ten. She’s a big Wonder Woman fan and after I gave her the latest issue and mentioned that I’ve kind of known the writer for 11 […]
So, yeah, this isn’t working, really.
- by Joe Rice
- Thursday, May 10th, 2007 at 2:24 PM EST
I’m sending this in a letter to Brian, too.
Lately I’ve been questioning why I’m writing the Media Reviews. They’ve seemed even more pointless than usual. I don’t enjoy doing it. I’m generally saying the same stuff month after month. And if I was going to get someone to try a book, it’s happened by now. […]
Joe Rice Media Review 5/7/07
- by Joe Rice
- Monday, May 7th, 2007 at 1:41 PM EST
Got a stack here of at least a couple weeks’ worth of comics. Nothing from Free Comic Book Day . . .I was busy with mint juleps on that fine day. I feel like I’m coming down with something so I’m slightly medicated and will likely be very brief. Perhaps I can reduce my reviews […]
Joe Rice Media Review 4/19/07
- by Joe Rice
- Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 3:22 PM EST
For those three or four people still reading what I write here after I made fun of Harlan Ellison, welcome. I hope at least one of you is female so you can repopulate the world that is my readership after this dreadful catastrophe. I have always believed my readers are of good stock, so we […]
Do the Right Thing
- by Joe Rice
- Friday, April 13th, 2007 at 6:36 AM EST
Fantagraphics, the publisher of many of the greatest comics ever made, is being sued by a petty old sci-fi writer for using an interview even he admits they own and for listing his name on the cover of a book wherein the interview is contained. (In truth, because his widdle feewings were hurt at […]
Joe Rice Media Review 3/11/07
- by Joe Rice
- Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 at 7:18 PM EST
Wow-wow-wow. What a big week. Any week with Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Paul Hornschmeier, Lewis Trondheim, and Anders Nilsen is a pretty goddam great week, especially if all that came in just two books! And there was other good stuff too! The wife’s dirty martini did the trick of putting her to bed early so […]
Spider-man Week in NYC and Captain Marvel Screenwriter links
- by Joe Rice
- Monday, April 9th, 2007 at 7:29 AM EST
So everywhere you go in this, the greatest of all cities, you see posters for Spider-man Week. Well, today, I finally remembered to check out the site to see what was going on. The site’s pretty fun, with a map that combines “real Spidey locations” like where Aunt May lives, events associated with the upcoming […]
Joe Rice Media Review 4/9/07
- by Joe Rice
- Monday, April 9th, 2007 at 7:16 AM EST
OK, it’s obvious now. I’m getting old. I’ve been on Spring Break for, like, a week now? And I clearly cannot live like I once did anymore (even when I have kinda-permission from my wife). Today and yesterday were recovery days where the rest of the week finally caught up to me. And what’s sad […]
The Best Comic Book Writers Aren’t Just Writers
- by Joe Rice
- Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 at 8:02 AM EST
Would you believe I’ve been working this post over in my head for a few weeks? I have. Except today I was shown a livejournal post by Jesse Hamm, of whom I was not previously familiar, about a similar topic. It’s a slightly tongue-in-cheek rant from an artist’s perspective about how some comic writers tend […]
Joe Rice Media Review 4/2/07
- by Joe Rice
- Monday, April 2nd, 2007 at 8:58 AM EST
Hey, guess what! As an elementary school teacher, guess who has the next week-plus off! It’s me! I do! Who’s still sitting in his PJs without a care in the world? Also me! Who has a gigantic stack of comics to review? That one is not me. I have a few, though, and even a […]
Joe Rice Media Review 3/22/07
- by Joe Rice
- Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 5:39 PM EST
Now this was a damned varied week. From content to style to genre to format, my comic purchases were all over the place. And, thankfully, no weird middle-aged nerd fantasies about men in tights valiantly trying to resist the advances of young girls in tights. I thought Peter David was the writer of that stuff […]
