[One Marvel, one DC, both published the previous Wednesday, plus a random indie from whenever I feel like it, each reviewed quickie-style: 1 Minute=bad, 10 Minutes=good. Connections, if any at all, may be forced purely for the experience.]
Since it’s our first time, I’ll kick this format off comfortably with two regulars and a newcomer I’m [...]
Pumpkin Seeds: Gonzalez’s Twelve Edition
1. The difference between sanity and insanity is whether or not you do what the voices tell you.
2. If you know you’re a sore loser, it’s best not to answer the phone for an hour or so after your team loses the game you talked so much trash about.
3. Don’t tell [...]
There is something simultaneously appealing and frustrating about Ernesto Quiñonez’s second novel, Chango’s Fire, a marked improvement over his highly-flawed debut, Bodega Dreams, but in the end, still something of a disappointment. This time, the problem lies in his biting off more than he can chew with too many subplots rolling around what is essentially [...]
At first glance, Ezra appears to embody many of the things I dislike about comic books these days: multiple variant covers, scantily-clad women for no apparent reason, too little story and a late shipping schedule. And yet, despite all of that, when I saw it on the stands today, I was happy to finally see [...]
Am I just being cynical in thinking that much of the love being professed for Barack Obama rests a bit too precariously on the fact that he’s an articulate, well-spoken black man with a Great American Novel backstory? Because that’s all you ever hear about him in references to his purportedly being the future of [...]
