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Dinosaur-related nitpicks of this weeks DC comics

by MarkAndrew
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 at 8:06 PM EST

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To Joe Kubert (writer/artist) and Will Dennis (editor) of Tor:
That spiked-back crocodile thing on pages 15-17?
Definitely not a sauropod.

To Bruce Jones (w), Al Barruinuevo (a) and Joey Cavaleri (e) of The War that Time Forgot
Re: The large dinosaurs identified as “brontosaurus” on Page 12:
(A) Apatosaurus was alive in the late Jurassic, NOT the late […]

Elvis Road Review

by MarkAndrew
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 8:31 PM EST

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So I’m sitting in the Haunted Bookshop writing this, and Michael Chabon, who wrote The Amazing Adventures of Cavelier and Clay was just standing right behind me, looking through the Literary Biography section. We had, of course, been talking about him not half an hour before.
This is, like, the third most surprising thing that’s happened […]

Some Responses to the Latest Comics Journal

by MarkAndrew
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 at 3:19 AM EST

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Hey, big old Robert Kirkman cover this time out.

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms Review

by MarkAndrew
Sunday, April 20th, 2008 at 11:00 PM EST

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As you can probably tell by the cover here Fumiyo Kouno’s Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms sprightly drawn shojo (girls) style manga about love, loss, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the lingering horrors of radiation sickness, and the subtle physical and mental wounds that span generations.

Or maybe you can’t tell by the […]

What Makes a Superhero Comic a Superhero Comic?

by MarkAndrew
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 at 9:38 PM EST

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This topic’s popped up some in the Top 100 Runs discussion. So I thought I’d take a stab at a definition. It sure seems obvious until you get down to the nitty gritty of trying to actually figure out if a given comic is a superhero comic or not.
And while I don’t think […]

Some Reviews of the Top 100 Comics of the Year

by MarkAndrew
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 9:26 PM EST

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So last time I took a look at the original Top Ten Best Reviewed Comics of the Year on Dick Hyacinth’s meta-list.
Since then D.H. has tabulated a couple more votes (specifically those from the Comics Journal best of the year issue) and given us a full on Top 100.
“Neat!” sez I “I’m going to try […]

R.I.P. Jim Mooney

by MarkAndrew
Monday, March 31st, 2008 at 4:41 PM EST

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He passed away last Sunday at the age of eighty-eight. Mooney’s roots as an artist date back to Golden Age, where he worked for Timely/Marvel, the Igot/Eisner studio, and ghosted for Bob Kane on BATMAN.
In his post Golden-Age career, he’s best known for his ten year stretch as the primary Silver Age Supergirl […]

For your perusal: The cover to Taffy # 12

by MarkAndrew
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 7:23 PM EST

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Dated 1948. Probably technically work safe, but….

Needed: Scans of EC’s International Comics/Crime Patrol 1-6

by MarkAndrew
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 at 9:34 AM EST

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Help Roy Thomas out! See your name in print in the All Star Companion volume 4 from TwoMorrows!
Anyway, my friend Kurt Mitchell, who’s one of the co-writers of the All-Star Companion series along with Roy the Boy posted this on the Classic Comics forum, and I wanted to pass his request along to a […]

Juicy Mother: Celebration

by MarkAndrew
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 at 3:34 PM EST

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Here’s the part where the straight, white (American) male reviews the collection of mostly gay but sometimes other ethnic and racial minority comics. Let’s see what happens.
Juicy Mother is an aught five anthology from Soft Skull press featuring work by a bunch of folks I’ve quite honestly never heard of, mixed in with stuff […]

Hey! Everybody!

by MarkAndrew
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at 5:55 PM EST

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Go wish prominent Comic Blogger (and semi-frequent comment-tator) Matt Brady congratulations on the birth of his first child.
The LINK! Follow the LINK!

It’s snowing and Steve Gerber is Dead.

by MarkAndrew
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 11:53 PM EST

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(Written 11 days ago)
List of things I did when I found out Steve Gerber died:

Went and sat on the toilet for 22 minutes.
Immediately logged into CSBG to see if the news had been posted.
Felt slightly jealous that Cronin had posted it before I did. Aren’t Greg Hatcher and I THE big Steve Gerber fans, […]

Gail Simone talks about Steve Gerber

by MarkAndrew
Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 8:53 PM EST

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Wonder Woman and Killer Princesses writer Gail Simone posted this on the You’ll All Be Sorry forum here, and I thought it was very nice. Made me feel better, kinda.

Hey, how do you recognize inkers?

by MarkAndrew
Sunday, February 10th, 2008 at 4:57 PM EST

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I asked on the Classic Comics forum, but since I’ve GOT the ability, I may as well ask you guys, too.
Here’s the sum total of inkers I can pick out:
1) Bill Sienkiewicz
2) Steve Ditko
3) Wally Wood
I couldn’t even start to figure out how to recognize an inker who’s penciling I’m not intimately […]