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TALES OF THE UNEXPLAINED For some unfathomable reason, HOWARD THE DUCK is the best comic book Marvel is currently publishing. It’s funny, it’s inventive, it’s cleverly plotted, its lead character is a gas and it’s frank about how silly a lot of the Marvel Universe is, and how often. Howard himself is not a particularly
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VARIATIONS ON A THEME One of the ugliest and frankly worst things to happen to comics in the last few years has been DC Comics’ most recent once-a-decade intra-company continuity jerk-around, currently called The New 52. The problem seems to sit mostly with upper management at the publisher, which has enforced fabulous top-down ideas like
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MYSTERY KNIGHT 1. There’s a level on which I take comfort in comics that is probably unhealthy and harmful. Take this week’s issue of Doctor Strange, for example: there’s an untightening in the chest I can directly associate with the experience of opening the book and leafing through it, irrespective of relative merit. By which
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EMPIRE OF DIRT 1. At the end of the most recent season of RICK AND MORTY, Rick, the cranky absentee dad author-surrogate mad scientist who seems to know what’s best for everyone in the show, overhears his family talking about whether or not to turn him in to the authorities for crimes he’s committed as
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Welcome to the hobby-horse edition of my now apparently weekly comics column, in which I get mad about censorship, revisit and expand on a couple of books I’ve already told you I love and discuss another I’m hugely enamored of. We’ll start with that last one. Groo, most recently GROO: FRIENDS AND FOES, is the
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azertip: Franklin Booth These old Franklin Booth plates are gorgeous. Anyone know where they’re from?
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Comics as I knew them growing up are more or less over. This isn’t a particularly bad thing, although it makes me a little sad – there’s a good if in some places very, very wrong entry from Warren Ellis’s gonzo CBR column Come In Alone in which he frustratedly berates the industry for having
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It’s… I guess if there’s a theme, it’s folklore this week. Folklore and obscure reprints. Also there are only two primary creators in this entry, despite their being four books. FREE COUNTRY: A TALE OF THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE So I really like Neil Gaiman. I’ve reviewed his last several books for Newsday and I just generally
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So this week (who knows if this will be a weekly thing? I just like doing it because I like comics) I’m focusing on a couple of great books entirely by women and one that has a woman as its primary creative force. Comics are verrrrry verrrrry slowly becoming a more welcoming place for women
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beatonna: it is publication day! This interview goes Down to Bleak Town but also other places I’m proud of this one. Kate Beaton: ‘We watched print die from up on our hill of youth’
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