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“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 [...]
The DONK DONK Knight
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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
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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
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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)
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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!
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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 to one-up that lame [...]
Leanna T. Reviews Wonder Woman
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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 years or [...]
So, yeah, this isn’t working, really.
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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 [...]
Joe Rice Media Review 5/7/07
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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
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
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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 how [...]
Joe Rice Media Review 3/11/07
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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
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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 [...]
