A podcast about the craft of comics
Written by Alan Moore. Illustrated by Jacen Burrows. Avatar Press, 2010. This book is several things. It is a kinky H.P. Lovecraft worshiping Cthulhu Mythos pulp story, with endless name checks. It is a raw, meaty slab of new Alan Moore story. It is a meta-narrative that discusses the possibilities of linguistic based psychedelic experience. It is some high concept, dark [...]
I recently bought the video game Batman: Arkham City and was amazed by the content. Batman: Arkham City involves Gotham City being taken over by the villains that Batman has sent to Arkham Asylum throughout the years. The Batman villains have taken some of the residents of Gotham City hostage and some of the Gotham [...]
Even amidst the anything-goes craziness of the early Image years, Sam Kieth’s The Maxx was an outlier. While it included some superhero tropes, it wasn’t really a superhero book, nor was it like much of anything else on the market, then or now. While it definitely has its weaknesses, Kumar and Dana confirm this week [...]
FLASHBACK! Tim and Brandon discuss “Fables” vol 1 and the Fables graphic novel “1001 Nights of Snowfall”, along with a detour into ’90s Marvel! (Originally published January 1, 2007) Tweet
If you’re looking for something new and different in comics, this week’s critiqued book definitely delivers: Scott D. Finch‘s “A Little World Made Cunningly” explores the author’s “fascination” with Gnosticism. Now, if we only understood it… Tim and Mulele discuss. This book is available on Graphicly.com! Tweet
FLASHBACK! Repeatedly collected and published since it went into the public domain, Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo is perhaps the most celebrated comic strip of the early 20th century. Peter Maresca, whose Sunday Press republished all the Nemo strips at their original size a few years back, talks with Tim about what’s good and bad about [...]
FLASHBACK! Many comics have been adapted to movies, but few have tried to reproduce the experience of actually reading a comic. These two did: Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy, and Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City. Tim, Mulele, Paul, and newcomer Rod discuss. Also: Paul and Mulele give Miller’s The Spirit a quickie review. (Originally [...]
While technically a comic, The Legend of Spacelord Mo Fo attempts to be a bit of a comics/animation hybrid — not a “motion comic”, but something like manually flipping through the frames of a movie. Does the technique succeed? Does the writing back it up? Tim and Mulele ponder. Tweet
Written by Grant Morrison. Art by Sean Murphy. DC Comics/Vertigo, 2011. Grant Morrison is a decisive writer in the comics form. Many people do not like his more experimental works, especially when the narratives get characteristically dense or abstract. Final Crisis anyone? Many people don’t enjoy when he incorporates more esoteric ideas like chaos magic, ceremonial magic, [...]
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