A sexy, geeky female superhero? The concept has possibilities, but Tim and Mulele find some problems with Sam Johnson’s Geek Girl…
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Category: Critiquing Comics Podcast
Critiquing Comics #040: “Back Office”
We start the year off right with a critique of Irish creator Mark Egan’s comics statement about call centers, Back Office!
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Critiquing Comics #039: “With the Earth Above Us”
Two astronauts battle their own ship’s computer. Sound familiar? No, it’s not 2001: A Space Odyssey, it’s Lee Milewski’s”With the Earth Above Us“. Not unlike Kubrick’s movie, this one strikes Tim and Mulele as being a bit hard to follow…
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Critiquing Comics #038: “Bunnies in Space”
This week, the work of Nick Dupree. At New York Comicon, Mulele had hoped to meet Nick but didn’t get the chance. Nonetheless, we took a look at his imaginative, unusual comic Bunnies in Space, and here’s our critique…
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Critiquing Comics #037: “Monarch Monkey”
This week, a collection of cut paper comics, each one better than the last. We critique Monarch Monkey and Other Stories, by Brad DeRocher, Dan Mazur, and Hyun Supul.
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Critiquing Comics #036: “The Oswald Chronicles”
A lushly-drawn, colorful fantasy tale of a powerful mouse. What could possibly go wrong? Well, our recording software, for one thing! Tim and Mulele brave technical difficulties to critique J.D. Calderon’s The Oswald Chronicles.
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Critiquing Comics #035: “Fashionable Nonsense”
Benji Ratliffe sent us his four-year-old unpublished work Fashionable Nonsense for critique. It’s a somewhat supernatural tale with a Scott Pilgrim tone. He wrote the script and hired an artist. While it does indeed have some problems — with clarity of the story, as well as storytelling and inking — why not put it out anyway? Tim and Mulele extol the virtues of putting your work out, even if you’re not 100% satisfied with it.
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Critiquing Comics #034: “Peony Trivet”
Tim and Mulele check out the smooth, sexy Peony Trivet #1, by Ed Greene and Jeff Sims.
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Critiquing Comics #033: “Minimal Comics”
It’s very simply drawn; sometimes the topics are also simple, perhaps too simple. But other times, the simplicity of the art reveals more complex, nuanced takes on the world around us. We take a look at Minimal Comics and other work by Graeme McNee.
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Critiquing Comics #032: “Strange Things”
It’s kinda like The Twilight Zone, set in the ’80s! Tim and Mulele critique Strange Things by Bryan Christopher Moss.
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