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Brian Wood Doublebill: DMZ and Local
I will freely admit to my ignorance of Brian Wood‘s work. I realize he’s a sort of indie icon, and I’m the sort of guy who tries to keep up with indie icons. I may have missed the boat with Demo, but I’m at least getting on at the ground floor with the two series…
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Aronofsky & Graphic Novels
Very interesting interview with Darren Aronofsky over at Newsarama about the two different streams he found for The Fountain: The film, which was bludgeoned by Hollywood executives, and the graphic novel: Filmmaking, you have to collaborate with the studio and with the money people to get the final vision on the screen, but in the…
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Publisher’s Weekly Best of 2005
While I work on a few reviews of stuff (Local! Seven Soldiers! Y!), some thoughts on the Publishers Weekly list of best comics of 2005: Epileptic: I’d like to read this. I probably will some day. I’m just not in much of a rush. Ex-Machina: The First Hundred Days: I read this in monthly format,…
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All Star Superman #1
I have never been a huge Superman fan. I’ve dabbled from time to time – I find it hard to believe that anyone who seriously reads comics never has – but it’s just never really set in. I read the Death of Superman, Funeral of Superman, and Resurrection of Superman stories, I tried reading some…
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Dear Internet Users
Frank Quitely. Not Frank Quietly. Also: Frank Miller. Mark Millar. It’s really not hard. Thank you.
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Why Comics Are Fucking Awesome
Reasons why I totally love comics. They’re in no order at all. Andy Diggle & Jock on The Losers Scott Pilgrim, by Bryan O’Malley Street Angel Grant Morrison Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely together Warren Ellis when he gets to write whatever the hell he likes Maus Mike Allred Peter Milligan writing whatever the hell…
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Shuffly: Because I saw someone else do it
People do this sort of thing on blogs, apparently: Generate a random mp3 playlist. Here are the 10 random songs that came up randomly after several random shuffles: Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Sterolab Last Dance, The Dirty Three The Lamb, Low Lie Dream of a Casino Soul, The Fall Fade Together, Franz Ferdinand Bells for Her,…
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The Losers vol. 3 review
Let’s be entirely clear about this: There are action movies, and then there are Action Movies. The former are cheap and plentiful and can be found at your average movie theatre on just about any given weekend. They usually come with a big budget, plentiful advertising, mid-range acting talent and a script dragged from the…
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Beer Is Good; Moving Is Bad
Long, long, long week. We moved offices last Friday. This is stressful enough: Having to pack up an entire office, particularly when you only have two full-time employees, but everything went reasonably well: Everything was packed up and ready to go when the movers showed up. Yay for us. But the wrinkle is that our…
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Toronto Film Festival: Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
The final chapter of Chan-wook Park’s Vengeance Trilogy (the first two being Sympathy for Mister Vengeance and Oldboy), Lady Vengeance seems like the work of an entirely different director. Where Oldboy was rough and visceral in both content and style, Lady Vengeance opts for a slower, more elegant, and perhaps more devastating approach. Lee Geum-ja…