Category archives: Comics
Someone find Wildstorm a dictionary so they can look up the meaning of the word “quit”
It’s probably not too harsh to call Wildstorm’s revamp of a couple years ago a failure that should best be forgotten. It’s not that the books were bad or didn’t sell, but that the really important ones didn’t show up… continue reading »
In Defence of the Comic Shop
Apparently feeling we haven’t had a real good comic-blog-controversy lately, Augie De Blieck tells us why we should stop going to the comic store and buying monthly comics. The underlying point of the essay is hardly controversial: Too many people… continue reading »
Do you need another Watchmen review?
In his defence, Zack Snyder really loves Watchmen. This film is a labour of love, a dedication to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, an immaculate recreation of a great book. Unfortunately, sometimes love is not enough. Or, perhaps more accurately… continue reading »
Why Watchmen Worries Me
I’m not opposed to adaptations on general principle. I’m not even one of those people who insists that a film remain absolutely faithful to its source material: High Fidelity is just as brilliant a movie as it is a book… continue reading »
The Longer Scott Pilgrim 5 Review
There’s a scene at the beginning of Scott Pilgrim vol. 4 where Ramona Flowers tells Scott Pilgrim that he’s the nicest guy she’s ever dated. Scott’s response is that this is kind of sad. Scott is, on this rare occasion,… continue reading »
Hello Oscars…
If you had to pick some ingredients for possibly the Greatest Movie Ever Made, you’d totally include Brett Ratner, right? But that alone wouldn’t be enough, would it? No, of course not. You’d want something really special, something to truly… continue reading »
The (super short, yet still insightful) Scott Pilgrim 5 Review
Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe is the Empire Strikes Back of Scott Pilgrim.
Why do people keep saying that?
At Vertigo’s NYCC panel, Karen Berger said something I’ve heard other people mention: Out of all the British writers who’ve worked for us, Peter Milligan is the only one who’s never written Constantine. Shouldn’t someone who works at Vertigo know… continue reading »
And in other universe-shattering news…
Scott Pilgrim Volume 5 comes out this week! I fully expect this to be the greatest thing to happen in the history of great things happening. As in, if Jesus were to return, the first thing he’d say would be… continue reading »
Even Alan Moore will want to play dress-up!
Watchmen Hallowe’en costumes? Why someone would want to buy a full Rorschach costume is beyond me – it’s a trenchcoat and some striped pants! (Well, they’re striped in the book, anyway. These costume people clearly have no sense of artistic… continue reading »
Allred + Gaiman + Metamorpho = Awesome
I admit, I was kind of lukewarm when I heard the news about Neil Gaiman writing a Batman story. Maybe because I’m not a fan of Andy Kubert’s art, and maybe because Batman doesn’t seem like an ideal fit for… continue reading »
President Templesmith
As far as comic book trends go, “political comics” isn’t a particularly interesting one. I mean, if Aaron Sorkin wants to start writing comics, I’m there, but biographies of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin don’t exactly whip me up into… continue reading »
Take THAT, Bridget Jones!
As a general rule, Jane Austen gives me hives. And Marvel’s Best Selling Authors line feels somewhat dubious – a mix of “Classics Illustrated” stuff and tie-ins to popular books whose actual Best-Selling Authors are nowhere to be found on… continue reading »
Bryan Adams: Viking Rock
(Explanations, of a sort, over here.)
I love this comic so very much
As if I weren’t already excited about the new Phonogram series, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie have posted a preview of the first issue. And it looks good. Like you’d expect. But it gets even better when Penny’s friend Laura… continue reading »