There was a split second between pages in Batman and Robin #8 when I was expecting to see a horrible replay of the final scene that dare not not be named from Star Wars: Episode III. What happened instead felt much more like Batman, as did this entire issue, and I’m pleased to report back … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #76: ‘Batman and Robin’ #8
Rene Engström’s Anders Loves Maria is filled with language, nudity, and indecent everyday situations that are bound to offend many people, and it has soured the words of critics whose blogging I have read. It is also a hybrid work of English infused with occasional Swedish that has been an odyssey in of itself to … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #75: ‘Anders Loves Maria’
• So here’s a decent photo study on Chicago’s “Rockabilly subculture,” which I didn’t know much about prior finding this link on Digg. I was disappointed that these “lifers” don’t include girls in Viking helmets jumping rope as a part of their definition of Rockabilly aesthetic. • You don’t need to speak Swedish to be … Read moreLink Sausage: 2/8/2010
Any message board trolls who have ever doubted the talents of Darick Robertson should take a long hard look at this one-shot that came out from Dark Horse in January. Conan the Cimmerian: The Weight of the Crown is a 40-page self-contained tale both written and drawn by the Transmetropolitan and Boys artist, and his … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #74: ‘Conan the Cimmerian: The Weight of the Crown’
From the time I first saw a Yellow Lantern ring try to latch itself onto Batman, I knew Geoff Johns would come the point where rings began flying around and causing apocalyptically colorful fights with scenes like Hal Jordan thwacking a giant green hammer through a zombie Spectre’s lower jaw. That one wins my favorite … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #73: ‘Green Lantern’ #50
• If you don’t read the The Oatmeal yet, the “10 Things You Need to Stop Tweeting About” page is a great place to start. After you do that, I recommend viewing the TwitPic page that accidentally shares a URL with one of the panels you’ve just seen. • Surely if you read webcomics at … Read moreLink Sausage: 2/1/2010
“You little men in your little suits. That is all you ever do. It makes no difference whether you craft them from iron or steel or uru…There is no metal in your hearts.” –Thor Kieron Gillen’s Thor writing can really make your heart thump, and that little exchange he had with Dr. Doom in Thor … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #72: ‘Thor’ #606