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Spider-Man Gets His Butt Whupped Week - 7: The Scorpion
Has it really been a week of Spider-Man butt whuppins already? Yes, my friends, I'm afraid we've reached the end.Today's villain is Mac Gargon, aka The Scorpion, a villain who has always tried to use...
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Sewer Diving: Fear is a Slinking Cat I Find Beneath the Lileks of My Mind
Those of you familiar with the work of humorist-writer-scold James Lileks will also be familiar with the sensation of thinking that he’s a schmuck even when you agree with him. Such is the case with...
View ArticleMy terrifyingly long Watchmen review that's completely irrelevantly late
Before I subject you to this, let me but apologize for having been away from the site for so long only to come out of my hole to post this long, vitriolic, intensely late review of a movie that's long...
View ArticleChip Kidd Shows Part of His Japanese Batman Toys Collection
"During his presentation at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Chip Kidd shows the various Japanese Batman Toys he came across during his project, Bat Manga."
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Living in the basement, Geoff? Really?
So, either you read Legion of 3 Worlds or you didn't. I did, because George Perez was drawing a Legion of Super Heroes stories with three Legions of Super Heroes in it. (Is that how we work the plural...
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PHI 120: Introduction to Humanism and Hellboy
Everyone loves Hellboy. Well, I guess, some people probably don't, but they're communists. And not the good kind, the bad kind, that invade Connecticut and make everyone wear mittens in the summer.And,...
View ArticleUncomfortable Comics Truths 1
I have no idea if this will actually become a series. Anyway:Animal Man is basically just Ambush Bug but taking itself much more seriously.Batman is essentially every bit as impossible as Superman....
View ArticleNews Item: The Mouse Makes a Bid on Stan Lee
I don't know about anyone else, but I was a bit surprised to learn that Disney very likely will be buying Marvel this morning. Approved by the board of directors of both Disney and Marvel, the...
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The First In Our Exciting New Series of Exclusive Pro Insights!
How To Write Comics Like Geoff Johnsby Geoff Johns, Totally The World's Greatest Comic Book WriterSometimes, fans will come up to me at Cons, or reporters will email me, or sometimes I sit down at a...
View ArticleUncomfortable Comics Truths 2
Yes, comic books objectify women. Look, I'm willing to cede that they also objectify men as being at once hypertrophic and yet sexless, smooth crotched aliens, but come on, women in comic books? Even...
View ArticleCaptain America: Rebirth - You are so fucking boring that you make me sad
There you go.Seriously, two issues in, and I'm so fucking bored I'd rather go read something by Chuck Austen. At least by now Chuck would have tried to convince me that Lutherans are out to use a...
View ArticleNews: Warners realizes it owns DC
I'm guessing the conversation went something like this...WARNERS EXECUTIVE 1: Did you see those stories about Disney buying Marvel?WARNERS EXECUTIVE 2: How could I miss it? It was all over!WARNERS...
View ArticleUncomfortable Comics Truths 3
Walt Simonson is not immune to the lure of a paycheck gig. Evidence: his run on the World of Warcraft comic book. How bad is this comic? Well, ignore for a moment that it's a tie in to a video game....
View ArticleWhy I am an entire pain in the ass
Go read this webcomic.Most people read that, maybe snigger a little at the clever Linux joke or don't get it because like the majority of human beings they could not care less about computer operating...
View ArticleUncomfortable Comics Truths 4 - The Kirby Era Edition
Believe it or not, Jack Kirby didn't shit rainbows and lactate wonder. A very good artist, professional, and seemingly a wonderful guy, but come on: he did Dingbats of Danger Street. It's pretty clear...
View ArticleThe Awesome Insanity of the Golden Age Superman
I talk about this a lot, but seriously: the Golden Age Superman was purely batshit. I've been rereading the Superman Chronicles, a series of reprintings of all the old Siegel and Shuster Superman...
View ArticleSuperman: Secret Origins 1 and 2 quick impressions
Yet more evidence that I post too much here.Anyway, not a real review, just some impressions.Gary Frank's a good artist but he needs to tone down the "I'm INSAAAAAANE" expressions he uses for...
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Superman: The Man of Tomorrow That Almost Was
Superman is about as iconic as you can get. He transcends the super hero medium of comics and offers a reflection of a nostalgic mid century America that never really existed. To many people he...
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Dial Ф for Fakeski!
Here's an amusing, really nicely designed, and completely ersatz version of Leon Trotsky as Tintin. The dead giveaway is the date 1922 - Tintin was first published in 1929, which is easy to remember,...
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