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Tag Archives: comics
smoky man & Gary Spencer Millidge’s Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman
I have a confession to make up front, one that’s not likely to endear me to this book’s intended audience: I’m not a huge Alan Moore fan. Sure, I adored the first League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series and early Swamp … Continue reading
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Brad Meltzer, Rags Morales, and Michael Bair’s Identity Crisis
Every year on my dad’s birthday, I include in his gift a complete comic mini-series, in graphic novel form, of some old favourite of his from either the DC or Marvel universes. Like me (and most men who were once … Continue reading
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Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge’s Shades of Gray
The superhuman revolution has begun. With the disruption of the system that was secretly brainwashing the extrahumans of Corp-Co and turning them into obedient superheroes, the superhumans who once protected the Americas of the future have turned to terrorizing it. … Continue reading
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Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge’s Black and White
Once they were the best of friends. Now they’re implacable enemies. Joannie “Jet” Greene is a certified hero who uses her powers over shadow and darkness to protect New Chicago. Callie “Iridium” Bradford has used her powers over light to … Continue reading
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Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s Baltimore: or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire
In the darkest days of World War I, Lord Henry Baltimore, then a Captain in the English Army, watches his men fall in battle. Himself injured, he barely fights off a nocturnal predator, and in doing so, unleashes the unholy … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, horror
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Jamie Delano, Garth Ennis, and Grant Morrison’s John Constantine: Hellblazer: Rare Cuts
Twenty-three years ago John Constantine sprang from the fertile imagination of Alan Moore to become a part of The Saga of Swamp Thing. Two years later, in 1987, Jamie Delano was approached by Vertigo editor, Karen Berger about giving Constantine … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, dark fantasy
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Eddie Campbell’s The Black Diamond Detective Agency
I suppose we’re all suckers for some things. I tend to love nineteenth-century American life depicted with a gritty realism. I have a soft spot for beautifully executed graphic novels, whether the style is loose and painterly or tight and … Continue reading
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Jim Butcher and Ardian Syaf’s Welcome to the Jungle
Welcome to the Jungle marks Jim Butcher‘s first foray into a genre near and dear to his heart: comics. This volume collects four individual issues comprising a standalone storyline in the world of Harry Dresden, prefaced by an introduction from … Continue reading
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Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins’s Watchmen Complete, #1-#12
Jasmine Johnston wrote this review. ‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?’ (Who watches the watchmen?) – Juvenal Have you ever read a book, a long book, all in one sitting, one gulp, one go? Till your eyes stick with every blink, and … Continue reading
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Rankin-Bass’ The Hobbit (DVD)
Sarah Meador wrote this review. The animated musical version of The Hobbit, produced for American television by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass (Rankin-Bass), opens with a small bit of narration from the book as the camera pans over lovely … Continue reading
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