Written by Nick Spencer. Pencils by RB Silva, inks by DYM.
DC Comics, May 2011.
Let me tell you about my second favorite Jimmy Olsen story. Continue reading Review: Jimmy Olsen #1
Category: Kumar’s reviews
Review: Rocketeer Adventures #2
by Various.
IDW Comics.
This is issue 2 of an anthology tribute to Dave Stevens’s The Rocketeer. An homage to Dave Stevens’s homage to the 30s and 40s. I bet you can guess my review is going to be about how the creative energy here is diluted. Continue reading Review: Rocketeer Adventures #2
REVIEW: Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon.
Hill and Wang, 2010.
So, why does a publisher which doesn’t normally deal in graphic novels / comics decide to put out a book like this?
1) It’s a way to re-publish existing material. This is especially true for The Anne Frank Center whose mission it is to perpetuate her story.
2) They assume – mostly incorrectly – that graphic novels are currently trendy.
3) They assume that kids are too slow / callous to appreciate a prose presentation of the same material.
Continue reading REVIEW: Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
#125 “The Four Immigrants Manga”
The Four Immigrants Manga is the story of Japanese immigrants in early-20th-century San Francisco. Tim and Kumar review.
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#116 “Death by Chocolate: Redux”
His name has been mentioned repeatedly on the podcast since the beginning: Mulele’s friend and collaborator Kumar! He joins Tim to review David Yurkovich’s Death By Chocolate: Redux
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