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Category Archives: comics
Comix Trip
Gerry Conway, writer: “We were just winging it, sort of like jazz riffing. And if you can think of the idiocy of trying to manage a jazz set, that’s kind of the idiocy, in my view, of trying to manage … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, eccc 2013, emerald city comicon, garth ennis, gerry conway, jerry ordway, seattle, walking dead
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Wednesday’s Heroes: Christopher Drake
xx Somebody’s gotta keep these projects classy. DC Universe, the animated arm of the DC Comics empire, has carved out a niche by mining and exploiting classic comics storylines for direct-to-video product. How they manage that material is up for … Continue reading
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Tagged batman, christopher drake, composers, DC comics, green lantern, superman
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Batman: The Character Of A City
Anton Furst chose to die by architecture. It’s darkly fitting, because the production designer of Tim Burton’s Batman films had hinted to us that architecture could kill — specifically, that a city could be a mad thing, hostile to the … Continue reading
Things I Liked And Disliked About THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
Spoilers. LIKED: Andrew Garfield Blinky, twitchy, mumbly, maybe a dash too much of each, sure — but his Peter Parker is a smart, bruised kid who’s jittery with the fear that he’ll lose even more than he already has.
Scientific Progress Goes KRA-KOOM!!
“It’s the opposite of vague. We’re defining it in a very clear, tangible way. … We want to be able to describe it in one sentence.” — Francis Manapul, writer, The Flash, on the Speed Force Manapul said this to … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, dc, jack kirby, marvel, stan lee, steve ditko, super-science
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The Long Con
Emerald City Comicon hit early puberty with its tenth installment in Seattle last weekend, bursting its pants like a hormone-swelled middle-schooler. At its peak on Saturday, crowds were such that the con became unnavigable, any planned rendezvous unkeepable, and popular … Continue reading
The Identity Game
“Did the costumes make it good?” Laurie (Silk Spectre) Juspeczyk asks Dan (Nite Owl) Dreiberg, in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen. The two are reclining nude at the time, although their lovemaking began after a dramatic rescue in the … Continue reading
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Tagged batman, catwoman, comics, hitchhiking game, identity, milan kundera, roleplay, warcraft
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