FLASHBACK! Brandon has nothing but praise for Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son; Tim’s feelings about the Dark Horse graphic novel The Truth are somewhat less adulatory…(Originally published October 9, 2006)
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#255 All Star Superman
Superman is one of the most iconic characters in American comics. Even people who don’t read comics (and perhaps haven’t seen the movies either) have some familiarity with him. While Tim is not a DC reader, Kumar is somewhat of a fan, especially of Silver Age Superman stories. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s All Star Superman mines those Silver Age stories for wackiness, but then infuses them with thoughtfulness and heart. Kumar, finally back from vacation, joins Tim to review.
Grant Morrison interview on Newsarama
Review of All Star Superman #10 on iFanboy
The Secret of All Star Superman by Douglas Wolk
All Star Superman on Wikipedia
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Kumar’s Link Regurg-a-thon #2!
I like the art of Adam Hughes very much, but this statue is bad:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/03/24/batgirl-statue-adam-hughes/
Not comics, but this seems to be the season for Leiji Matsumoto movies:
CG Captain Harlock — http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-24/captain-harlock-new-cg-pilot-images-staff-revealed
Live Action Uchu Senkan Yamato (a.k.a. Star Blazers in the US) — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jExoH_JjMZg
Galaxy Express 999 is one of my all-time favorite manga. Some day we are going to cover it on the podcast, I swear.
When you are not listening to Deconstructing Comics, I highly recommend you check out Gary Groth’s interview with Todd McFarlane from the early days of Image. Hilariously and predictably, within months of this interview McFarlane began engaging in various business practices which contradicted much of what he states here. He did, however, stand firm by his word that there was no point in him trying to improve as an artist:
Finally, Fantagraphics has a preview up of their new CAPATIN EASY book, one of my all-time favorite newspaper strips:
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#196 Batman Begins…and Ends
Frank Miller produced two of the most influential Batman books ever, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One, within a short period in the mid-’80s. The stories present the end and beginning of Batman’s career, respectively. Tim and Kumar talk about what’s good, and in some cases maybe a bit annoying, about both books.
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#124 The “Action Comics #1” Decision
Tim and Mulele discuss the recent court decision regarding copyright ownership of the first Superman story in Action Comics #1.
Also, an odd e-mail message about our site, and the latest on Mulele and Kumar’s Weird Crime Theater.
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#120 “Pyongyang”, “New Frontier”, and more
Tim and Brandon give their thoughts on Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang, DVD movie Justice League: The New Frontier, Spider-Man One More Day, and Writing for Comics with Peter David!
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#101 “Black Swan” on Zuda
Mulele talks about his new comic, Black Swan, one of the first ten comics to be put up for public voting on Zudacomics.com.
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#084 Zuda
Follow-up on Web comics: DC has announced Zudacomics.com. The details given answer some of our questions, and bring up new ones.
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#082 Web comics: What happens if the big players get involved?
Publishing online opens your comic up to a worldwide audience. But if the major players in print comics start publishing online, will they stamp out all the one-horse comics out there? Is there room on the Web for all of us?
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#056 “Fables”
We discuss Fables: Legends in Exile and Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall, by Bill Willingham and various artists.
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