Archaia
Review time! with Hopeless, Maine volume 1: Personal Demons
Let’s see what’s what with this, shall we?
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Flippin’ through Previews – May 2013
Previews #296 is out in the world, and I’m going to look through it! What will I find? NO MAN CAN SAY!!!! Continue Reading »
Flippin’ through Previews – April 2013
I’m back on schedule, so let’s dig into Previews #295 and see what’s what!
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Flippin’ through Previews – March 2013
It’s a bit late due to other things, but let’s check out Previews #294 – maybe there’s some interesting stuff in it!
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What I bought – 13 February 2013
Sipping drinks on the porch in the sunset, Farsheed Shomloo, an immigration lawyer, pointed to a book on the patio table and told Jim, “You should read this new book about Iran, it’s really interesting.” Jim replied:
“I don’t want to read it. I know the outcome already. In Iran, there is beautiful poetry and everything turns out a disaster. Here the poetry is not so beautiful, but people are free to discover the best in themselves; that’s why America has happy endings. Here it’s a negative system: there is no entrenched despotism, no will to dominate. We immigrants can remake the whole country if we want to. It’s ours for the taking, as if there is a perpetual clean slate where nobody is ever owed anything. I’ll tell you, the Iranian revolution was a disaster for Iran and a success for America, because it brought a lot of talented, ambitious Iranians here. Every time there is a disaster in the Third World, it’s a good thing for America, since the best of the middle class finds its way here.” (Robert Kaplan, from An Empire Wilderness)
Flippin’ through Previews – February 2013
Oh, DC – you never fail to amuse, and Previews #293 is a perfect example of that!
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Review time! with Sharaz-De: Tales from the Arabian Nights
Well, I wish I had heard of Sergio Toppi before he died, but I guess it’s better than never having heard of him, right?
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Review time! with Iron: Or the War After
So many anthropomorphic animal comics! You can’t escape them!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines Archive!
Yes, it’s a list of all the posts in which I’ve been looking at the first pages of comics. You could just click the category tag, but in this post, I’ve organized them! Whoo-hoo! I placed this on 1 January for the entire year, but now that the year is over, I thought I’d move it to the final day of the year!
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Review time! with City in the Desert volume 1: The Monster Problem
It’s the first of three volumes! But should you get the next two, much less this one? That’s what I’m here for!
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What I bought – 19 December 2012
“And the good thing about feeling really happy, you know, Valentin? … It’s that you think it’s forever, that one’s never ever going to feel unhappy again.” (Manuel Puig, from Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Flippin’ through Previews – December 2012
Boy, Previews #291 has some lousy covers. Look below the cut to see one of them!
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What I bought – 14 November 2012
“You can’t be a pure nation anymore, like the French and Germans used to be. At the stage of technology we have reached, nations work only if they float in the larger world. And what you have in this part of the world are fossilized nations, dead societies that have yet to revive. There are a group of young reformers in our parliament, educated in the West. But Georgians only want heroes. These reformers have never killed, they don’t drink two liters of wine every evening, they don’t fight, they have no mustaches or daggers, so they can’t be heroes!” (Robert Kaplan, from Eastward to Tartary)
Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 298: Killing Pickman #1
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be showing pages that are either scary or are part of “scary” issues (as scary as a comic can be, of course), because it’s October! Today’s page is from Killing Pickman #1, which was published by Archaia and is cover dated August 2007. This scan is from the hardcover volume published in 2011. Enjoy!
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