by Adrian Tomine
Drawn & Quarterly, 2011
HOLY CRAP!! NEW OPTIC NERVE!!!
Category: Kumar’s reviews
REVIEW: Sergio Aragones Funnies #1 & #2
by Sergio Aragones
Bongo Comics, July & August 2011
So, Sergio Aragones turned 74 this week. He has a new solo anthology title currently on the stands. And what have you done with your life?
REVIEW: Transformers #23
Written by: James Roberts
Art by: Alex Milne
Colors by: Joana Lafuente
Letters by Shawn Lee
IDW Publishing, August 2011
If you had told me 25 years ago that I would one day be reading a Transformers comic about senatorial politics, I would have said, “What’s senatorial politics?!”
Review: Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir
by Aline Kominsky Crumb
M Q Publications, 2007.
I was trying to think of a way to describe Aline Kominsky Crumb’s art, and then she went and described it perfectly herself:
I […] draw, erase, and scratch out some tortured looking image that clearly shows how much I am struggling with the medium. I honestly don’t think this makes my work less interesting, just very expressionistic and often very ugly.
In fact Crumb is so aware of her own work as an artist that I could skip reviewing the book and just pull quotes out of it to do the same job.
Review: DC Comics Presents Green Lantern: Willworld
written by JM DeMatteis, art by Seth Fisher
DC Comics, 2011.
If the idea of Green Lantern as a giant disembodied floating head who can’t even speak because he’s got his mouth full with a buxom six-armed bartender, an alien beatnik, and an angel in cutoff jeans and a t-shirt sounds appealing, then, boy, is this the comic for you!
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Review: Jimmy Olsen #1
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
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.
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#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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