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There are no attempted puns about philately in this post
Stamp collecting is probably one of the most boring and generally lamest hobbies one can find. (One might think there’d be problems with someone who spends most of his time writing about comic books pointing that out, but I have no regrets. To be fair, collecting stamps is much cooler than collecting spoons.) Until now:“Mythical…
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Someone find Wildstorm a dictionary so they can look up the meaning of the word “quit”
It’s probably not too harsh to call Wildstorm’s revamp of a couple years ago a failure that should best be forgotten. It’s not that the books were bad or didn’t sell, but that the really important ones didn’t show up at all. The two flagships of the line, Wildcats by Grant Morrison and Jim Lee,…
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Do you need even MORE of my thoughts?
If things aren’t random enough around here, you can always follow me on Twitter. Mostly I just signed up to spite my lovely girlfriend, who is not at all fond of Twitter. But maybe it doesn’t have to suck?
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The Ups and Downs of Being Erica
If you’ve never lived in Canada, you probably don’t understand the odd relationship we have with Canadian culture. There’s very little of it, you see, and it’s frequently not very good. American programming tends to drown out Canadian entertainment, Hollywood draws in a lot of Canadian talent, and the few Canadian TV shows tend to…
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In Defence of the Comic Shop
Apparently feeling we haven’t had a real good comic-blog-controversy lately, Augie De Blieck tells us why we should stop going to the comic store and buying monthly comics. The underlying point of the essay is hardly controversial: Too many people buy too many comics out of habit, not because they particularly enjoy them. I can…
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Do you need another Watchmen review?
In his defence, Zack Snyder really loves Watchmen. This film is a labour of love, a dedication to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, an immaculate recreation of a great book. Unfortunately, sometimes love is not enough. Or, perhaps more accurately in this case, love is too much. Zack Snyder adapting Watchmen to film is a…
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Why Watchmen Worries Me
I’m not opposed to adaptations on general principle. I’m not even one of those people who insists that a film remain absolutely faithful to its source material: High Fidelity is just as brilliant a movie as it is a book despite entirely Americanizing the setting and characters, and Sin City was a pretty bad movie…
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The Longer Scott Pilgrim 5 Review
There’s a scene at the beginning of Scott Pilgrim vol. 4 where Ramona Flowers tells Scott Pilgrim that he’s the nicest guy she’s ever dated. Scott’s response is that this is kind of sad. Scott is, on this rare occasion, quite right. He may be the hero of our story, but Scott Pilgrim is kind…
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Hello Oscars…
If you had to pick some ingredients for possibly the Greatest Movie Ever Made, you’d totally include Brett Ratner, right? But that alone wouldn’t be enough, would it? No, of course not. You’d want something really special, something to truly elevate Ratner’s work above that of also-rans like Kubrick and Kurosawa. Something so daring and…
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The (super short, yet still insightful) Scott Pilgrim 5 Review
Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe is the Empire Strikes Back of Scott Pilgrim.