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Date:
08/31/2009Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published It wasn't really fair of us to go to last weekend's Zine Fest looking for comics -- they're not really the same thing, are they? But lately we've had our fill of the sharpies and scotch tape and fervent prose that is intensely personal and therefore almost completely incomprehensible. So it was with an eye for picture books that we wandered into what is charmingly called "The County Fair Building"... [Read more...]
Date:
02/04/2007Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published How is it that you've never heard of The Ballad of Halo Jones? It's been around for about 20 years, so you have absolutely no excuse for not diving into this unjustifiably unknown sci-fi pleasure. The year is 4950 or so, and life sucks for a group of young women living in a messy unemployment colony called "The Hoop." Mean aliens, dangerous criminals, and inescapable poverty drive some folks to... [Read more...]
Date:
08/21/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Oh we've got some tough cookies this week, yes sir. Fresh from the macho shelves at Isotope and onto your manly plate come The Boys, about a group of vigilantes taking revenge against reckless superheros; The Savage Brothers, about a team of zombie bounty hunters; and Casanova, which is difficult to interpret but appears to relate to some kind of slick superspying. Let's kick it off with The Savage... [Read more...]
Date:
08/07/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Jack is shy and artsy, which isn't helping him with his primary goal: attracting chicks. "Jack and Lucky," by bay-area artist Anthony Hon, chronicles the travails of a lonely, horny 20-something. Oh and also, and this is never explained but somehow doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary, he lives with a giant talking 300-pound cat. Like the talking monkey in Rob Osborne's 1000 Steps to World Domination,... [Read more...]
Date:
07/24/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published When we're reading comics about hard-boiled female reporters unflinchingly uncovering terrible secrets during a time of war, we don't want to see delicate ladies -- we want to see take-no-prisoners broads. Like the classic plucky Lois Lane, or like trousers-wearing Amy Archer in The Hudsucker Proxy, or like the tenacious Nina Totenburg. The character of Charlotte Hemming, in Ian Edgington and Matt Brooker's Scarlet Traces: The Great Game, does not... [Read more...]
Date:
06/19/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published You know how it is sometimes to look at photos from the 80s, where it's all cute young cheeks and happy tow-headed promise, and now twenty years later all the kids in the pictures have been worn down by their dreams falling apart and everything they love being taken away? (Or at least, that's how we feel when we listen to Bright Eyes.) So anyway, issue three of Joshua W.... [Read more...]
Date:
05/30/2006Category:
· Writing » Reviews » Comic Books
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Before we get to this week's comic books, we must first point out that Issue 2 of Kevin McShane's Toupydoops has, as the kids say, hit the stands. (We reviewed Issue 1 a few weeks ago.) This latest installment sees our heros standing in line to get into a club where, it turns out, everybody sucks. Poseurs and floozies and five dollar beers deflate their enthusiasm for Los Angeles, but... [Read more...]
