A city devastated by metahumans. Political intrigue and post-9/11 fear-mongering. Heroes pitted against the government and each other, forced to…
Tag: Election
COMMENT: Pull List Massacre, Part II
A couple of months back I did my first round of Pull List pruning, in anticipation of some real world…
REVIEW: V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta, on the other hand—while similarly dated and liberally incorporating elements familiar to any fan of the vengeance seeking, flush with resources anti-hero—holds up remarkably well all these years later. It’s a flawed story, mind you, as Moore slips back and forth between compelling melodramatic fiction and hamfisted polemic (similar in some ways to Fahrenheit 911), but the overall result is that of an incredibly engaging tale—part revenge thriller, part political potboiler, part police procedural—that takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster ride before ending on a somber, if obliquely hopeful, note.
On The Shelves: 3/22/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month…or not. Who cares? Between Blogger and Gmail’s sporadic outages the past week…
On The Shelves: 3/8/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 3/8/06. The…
Blog, I have forsaken thee…
Remember when I used to post every day, sometimes multiple times a day? Those were heady times, between the war…
A Rare 2005 Political Moment
In the 2004 Presidential election, Bush wasn’t the only winner. Apathy struck a critical blow, too, in the non-action of…