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Evan-JOE-Lical Comics Club Part Three: The One After Part Two
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Hello, and welcome back, sports fans. My of-uncertain-regularity posting of the reviews by “normals” of comics continues. I was away on an incredibly nerdy Weezer cruise a couple weeks ago, and my brain and body took until this week to recover from the nautical debauchery. There is a slight chance I am married to someone [...]
Evan-JOE-Lical Comics Club Part II: THE SECOND PART OF IT
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Welcome back this grand experiment wherein we look for answers to some seminal questions: “What happens when you take normals to a comic book store?” “What hidden nerdy desires do we all hide deep within the recesses of our hearts (or on our t-shirts)?” and of course, “How difficult is it to wrangle a group [...]
Evan-JOE-Lical Comics Club Part I: THE BEGINNING
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I was sitting in a shithole of a Manhattan dive bar once frequented mostly by collegiate assholes and now simply by assholes. It was the sort of place not even I drank from the taps, so the Abita was from the bottle. To make matters worse, they had thrown some blow-out of a party the [...]
Mono-Lagering: King’s Head Tavern
So, some sort of introduction might be in order here. Hi, I’m Joe. Way back in the blogspot days, I co-founded this blog with Mr. Cronin, Mr. Cox, and some other internet pals. It was an attempt to raise the level of discourse about comics online from your usual message board “Yes it is/no it [...]
Difficult Spreadsheet Man is Probably a Secret Avenger
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I’m not totally sure but I think this is him. Dang it if this fellow does not make some nice formulas in his cells, just totally proper
Bruce, Billy, and Family-creation
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Certain characters really hit home with certain readers. And certain characters really strike a nerve with a lot more people than others. I’ve been thinking for a while about this in relation to superhero comics. Captain Marvel (the real one, Billy Batson) has always been a favorite of mine. Something about him really clicked. And [...]
Comics That Probably Shouldn’t Be Good But Are
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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…
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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
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
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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
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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)
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This is pretty awesome. (Here’s the article itself.)
Definitive List of the Five Best Flashes Ever Anywhere
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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”
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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
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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 [...]
