Comics
Comics, graphic novels, manga, picture books, and anything they used to called “sequential art.”
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Gotham Academy, Vol. 2: Calamity by Becky Cloonan WARNING! POTENTIAL SPOILERS! Waiting for the next volume of your favorite comic book series is like waiting for the next season of your favorite TV show to stream on Netflix. Sometimes it takes too long, so you forget certain details that help the story in the new…
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Where ABC and Fox make you wait a week to see the latest episode (unless you have a cable subscription), The CW understands that it’s commercial TV (not subscription) and that its viewers can’t stop their worlds (no matter how much they want to) to sit and watch their favorite show or, as in my…
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The 2013 New York Comic Con was my “lost Comic Con,” I was there in body but my exhausted spirit was elsewhere. I unintentionally spent a lot of time in the exhibit hall, normally the highlight of the Comic Con. But just like having too much candy on Halloween, one too many hours in the…
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In “The Next Avengers” Ultron has taken over the world and it is up to the children of the original Avengers to stop him. Several Goodreads critics gave Marvel Avenger’s Age of Ultron just one or two stars, but like a few other critics, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Among the…
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From The Flash Volume 2 Rogues Revolution: A gorilla priest explains how the Flash will save Gorilla City from ruination. In my review of the first New 52 Flash book I called the Flash the anti-Batman because despite losing his mother in a similar manner to Bruce Wayne’s, Barry Allen retains his optimism and faith…
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The Spider-Man Noir cutscenes from Shattered Dimensions have a Sin City feel that makes it noir. I call it the “Batmanification” of Spider-Man, the darkening of a usually wise-cracking, trickster spirit into something severe and brooding. My first introduction to Spider-Man Noir was the video game, Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions. It shares the same setting and…
