Comics
Comics, graphic novels, manga, picture books, and anything they used to called “sequential art.”
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Despair deserved better in Volume 11 of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series, Endless Nights. She deserved the narrative thread that Delirium got to connect the varied and convoluted thoughts of its characters. Compared to the stories of their Endless siblings, Delirium and Despair have the most unconventional and abstract structures. I’m not going to say…
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I remember enough to say for sure I was looking through the shelves at Forbidden Planet on the corner of 13th and Broadway (it’s moved since) when I first flipped through the pages of Neil Gaiman’s Preludes and Nocturnes. I was attracted to Dave McKean’s cover art and a review I read just a few…
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SPOILERS! DO NOT READ ON IF IT MATTERS It’s “Sushi Yojimbo,” if I want to be glib about it. If I don’t, Get Jiro is Anthony Bourdain’s creative expression of his criticism of the food industry from fast food to organic and local to authenticity to chef celebrities, franchises, and high end dining. You name…
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“POSSIBLE SPOILERS! DO NOT READ ON IF IT MATTERS! When I started Dracula, Motherf**ker I hadn’t realized that Alex De Campi wrote another one of my favorite comics – Archie vs Predator, where Archie, Jughead, Veronica, Betty, and many of the other characters from the classic Archie Comics series try to survive being hunted by the…
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POSSIBLE SPOILERS! DO NOT READ ON IF IT MATTERS! I started House of M in March but wasn’t inspired to finish it until watching the X-Men panel on the Comic-Con YouTube channel. The panelists spoke about the newly concluded “Hellfire Gala,” which leads into the “Trial of Magneto.” Poor Magneto seems to be the scapegoat…
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Jughead is best when his story stops being THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY and attempts to be Degrassi High. I preferred Volume 2 of Chip Zdarsky’s Jughead over Volume 1. It felt a little deeper than the first. More thoughtful. Volume 1 felt unimaginative despite the Jughead’s fanciful daydreams. It was formulaic and overly…
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We Are Robin…, Volume 2: Jokers by Lee Bermejo WARNING! POTENTIAL SPOILERS! It’s the last story in WE ARE ROBIN VOLUME 2: JOKERS, “The Hero Business,” that I enjoyed the most. The inclusion of “Jokers” made the volume’s title provocative but the story itself was a let down — No new addition or twist to…
