Rocketo Love from Junot Diaz
Today’s N.Y. Daily News, in their monthly Viva New York pullout section, included a feature called “Authors Pick Their Favorite Reads of 2006”, wherein Junot Diaz (of the critically acclaimed collection of short stories, Drown), gave Rocketo a shout-out: “A comic book of extraordinary power, with a Cuban hero, written by a Cuban writer. I’ve
On The Shelves: 12/13/06
Reading is fundamental. Don’t waste your time reading bad comics out of habit! My weekly, semi-informed look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 12/13/06 follows. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure
Download Comics Legally
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some advertising somewhere for Wowio recently, but had no idea what it was until I saw it mentioned in this Newsarama article about Devil’s Due publisher Josh Blaylock’s latest project, Pullbox Online: NRAMA: What effect do you think this will have, a) on your print titles, and b) on your
REVIEW: Uncle Sam and The Freedom Fighters #1
A city devastated by metahumans. Political intrigue and post-9/11 fear-mongering. Heroes pitted against the government and each other, forced to choose between wildly uneven sides. Marvel’s Civil War? No, actually, it’s DC’s Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #1, “from the pages of Brave New World” and spinning out of the events of the Battle
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 changes necessitating a decreased comics budget, as well as a shift towards “emphasizing comfort over experimentation” in my selections. Originally I was expecting to cut it roughly in half, to $75/month (including my hefty discount),
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 or so, and some behind-the-scenes dustups that are really testing my patience for this labor of love shit, I’m feeling rather jaded and cynical these days. That’s a bad combination, but there’s light at the
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 full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not,
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 and the elections and the poetry scene, etc. Nowadays, I don’t think I’m even averaging one post a week. Part of the reason is that comics have pretty much taken over the little bit of
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 the 40% of those eligible to vote who chose not to. Pretty much broke my spirit, even with accepting that not voting can be considered a vote in and of itself, as opposed to the