Since Jason and I began talking about comics, lo those many months ago, we haven’t really done any comics reviews. There are a couple of reasons for it, and he and I have discussed the issue at length. One of the reasons we’ve been shying away from doing actual comics reviews is that they are diffic ...
been pretty busy lately... sorry for the dead air i was scanning stuff for my new laserkecth blog and stumbled upon these guys. probably drew them as i read seven soldiers of victory a couple of years back. wasn't doug mahnke just amazing there? he's incredibly talented, i got into his stuff with hi ...
All it took was the reappearance of the Shilo Norman version of Mister Miracle and a quick cameo by freakin' Frankenstein in Final Crisis, but I've been on a real Seven Soldiers kick lately. To be specific, I'm talking about the characters Grant Morrison dug up, recreated or let spring out fresh and ...
If you've been reading Final Crisis and wondering what the hell is going on, put down those back issues of Countdown. No, seriously, put them down, and pick up the Seve n Soldiers maxi-series instead. Also densely and somewhat confoundingly written by Grant Morrison, the events of the six different ...
Comics are a bastard medium. It isn’t fine art. Even the commercial art doesn’t quite stick– it’s for sale, yeah, but it’s still somewhere between the two. Comics are for children. They feature men in tights re-enacting the same simple good versus evil fights they’ve been doing for decades. How deep ...