It was a few shades of Faulkner with some Cormac McCarthian isolation and this eerily subdued Tromaville meets Narnia vibe, but I think main reason Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth just fit its hooks into me from issue one really came down to its raging amount of mystery and possibility that it uses to hollow out … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #10: ‘Sweet Tooth’ #1
Because it’s the elephant in the room for anyone who knows me and has seen the jacket of this book, I want to get the subject out of the way so that I can move on to more important subjects and say that yes, the Papyrus font all over this book made me uneasy. Were … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #9: ‘Echo’ vol 1
In theory, this Vertigo series was tailor made for my reading tastes. It opens up with an homage to Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, which was a life-altering read for me. It’s got a kiss of Pynchonian conspiracy to it. M.K. Perker’s artwork is vintage Vertigo, so it should be able to carry that story … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #8: ‘Air’ vol 1
This Dan Clowes 4-pager comes from the short story anthology The Book of Other People, which I picked for road reading on the way out to the Finger Lakes Wine Festival earlier this year. It’s a bitter icepick of a character explanation, but as far as stories titled with names go, it fits right in … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #7: ‘Justin M. Damiano’
The “Blackest Night” event at DC right now has been a long time coming. I’ve heard at least two writers from Marvel and DC books mention similar concepts in the past, but Geoff Johns finally got his epic march-of-the-dead-heroes book through to the shelves. I picked this spin-off miniseries opener up once, put it back, … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #6: ‘Black Night: Titans’ #1
The Regal Beast collection here that I pulled off of the bookshelf comes from several years ago during my first visit to the Small Press Expo in Bethesda Maryland. The graphic album, which veers in and out of comics, but which I think has enough comics blood in it to qualify for this reviews series … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #5: ‘Regal Beast’ vol. 1
Strangely enough I picked this minicomic up at the Top Shelf booth during the first day of Wizard World Chicago Comic-Con this year, though it was independently published by its creators Kelly Krantz and Brett von Schlosser. Ever since I moved to Chicago from New York in December 2007 I’ve missed touring the capital “I” … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #4: ‘Ballad of the Intrepideers’ vol. 1
Grant Morrision and Frank Quitely rocked my comics-loving soul into happy dreamlands during their runs on New X-Men and All Star Superman, and I was pretty thrilled to see them enter into this series on the unsteady ground of the post-“R.I.P.” Bat-Universe. Three issues in, I’ve had enough of a taste that I know I’m … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #3: ‘Batman and Robin’ #3
Right, so I’d feel bad about lagging behind for the last week, but since that reason was getting an unexpected influx of work, I can’t really offer too wholehearted of an apology. Besides, I’ve been pouring over a stack of news, week-olds, and month-olds and fully plan on keeping pace. Still expect to see 100 … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #2: ‘Wednesday Comics’ #1
Oddest blog confession that I never expected to make: This new series of posts was directly inspired by seeing Julie & Julia last night with my girlfriend. Looking at the scope of what the film’s title blogger achieved for herself through a year of foodie blogging, I got to thinking about what subject matter I’m … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #1: ‘Daredevil’ #500