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Try Something Different: 5/24/05

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:May 24, 2005
Post category:Media Pop Culture
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Support Independent Comics!Independent comics (and manga) being released tomorrow, 5/24/05, courtesy of ComicList. 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.Recommendations, sometimes blind, in BOLD. Which ones are YOU reading?AAA POP COMICS Golden Plates #2 (Of 12), $7.99AIT/PLANETLAR True Story Swear To God Vol 2 This One Goes To 11 TPB, $12.95ANTARCTIC PRESS AP How To Draw Manga Toning Techniques CD Ed Vol 1 TPB, $24.95AMAZE INK (SLAVE LABOR GRAPHICS) Punch And Judy TPB, $7.95ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS Archie #557, $2.19 Archie Double Digest…

Try Something Different: 5/18/05

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:May 17, 2005
Post category:Media
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Support Independent Comics!Independent comics (and manga) being released tomorrow, 5/18/05, courtesy of ComicList. 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.Recommendations, sometimes blind, in BOLD. Which ones are YOU reading?AEON Bugtown #5 (Of 6), $2.95AMAZE INK (SLAVE LABOR GRAPHICS) Strange Eggs #1, $3.95ANTARCTIC PRESS Heaven Sent #10 (Of 11), $2.99 Ninja High School #128, $2.99ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS Betty & Veronica Spectacular #70, $2.19 Jughead #165, $2.19 Sonic The Hedgehog #149, $2.19 Tales From Riverdale Digest #2, $2.39ATOMIC DINER Freakshow #6, $2.95BONGO COMICS Simpsons…

Try Something Different: 4/20/05

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:April 20, 2005
Post category:Media Pop Culture
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Support Independent Comics!Independent comics (and manga) being released today, 4/20/05, courtesy of ComicList. 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.What are you reading?AC COMICS Best Of The West #49, $6.95A. D. VISION Maburaho Manga Vol 1 TPB, $9.99ANARCHY STUDIOS/HARRIS COMICS Gold Digger Vol 5 Pkt Manga TPB, $9.99 Vampirella Comics Magazine Burns Cvr #9, $9.95 Vampirella Comics Magazine Harris Cvr #9, $9.95ANTARCTIC PRESS Gold Digger #63, $2.99 I Hunt Monsters Vol 2 #4, $2.99 Mangazine Vol 3 #64, $9.99 Ninja High School…

CBC Team-Up: Countdown to Power Pack’s Sea of Red

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:April 7, 2005
Post category:Personal Reviews
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Comic Book Commentary's Dynamic Duo, Editor Guy LeCharles Gonzalez and The Sidekick Stephen Maher, team up to take on a clutch of recent comics, fighting for truth, justice and a decent read for three bucks! In this issue, they take on Marvel Team-Up #7, Firestorm #12, Power Pack #1, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel #2, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Batman #638 and Sea of Red #1.Stephen Maher: So, did you get to read the books?Guy LeCharles Gonzalez: Yeah. Mixed bag.Maher: Yeah. Sorry about Moon Knight. Bwahahahaha!Gonzalez: Bleh. As bland as Kirkman made it sound. At the same time, the issue…

Comment: Making Comics Thin-Skinned

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:March 10, 2005
Post category:Media Personal Pop Culture
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It's no secret that creative types can be pretty thin-skinned when it comes to their art, especially when they're in their early developmental stages. Personally, when I first got into the poetry slam scene - competitive poetry readings, for the uninitiated, where original poems are performed and then judged on a scale of 0-10 by five random members of the audience - I was pretty thin-skinned, ready to curse out, throw beers at, or fight judges who gave my poems low scores. After awhile, as happens to most poets on the scene, I matured, wrote and performed better poems, and…

Review: Ant: Days Like These (TPB)

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 6, 2005
Post category:Media Personal Reviews
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There's a perennial debate on which creative setup works best in comics, the collaboration or the solo creator. With superior examples on both sides, of course, there is no definitive answer, but for every good example, there's at least as many bad ones. Creator/writer/artist Mario Gully's intriguing concept - eight-year old Hannah Washington creates an imaginary world in her journal, a world where she is the powerful superhero known as Ant, a world that may not be as imaginary as it seems - has lots of potential, but, unfortunately, it qualifies as Exhibit A for the case against solo work;…

Review: New Avengers #1 / The Ultimates 2 #1

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:December 4, 2004
Post category:Reviews
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To say I was skeptical about Marvel go-to-guy Brian Michael Bendis' New Avengers seemingly self-serving reload would be quite the understatement. Based on the ill-conceived complete disaster that was Avengers Disassembled, and it's half-assed epilogue/retrospective in Avengers Finale, I was fully prepared to hate it on sight. Boy was I wrong! After the requisite - and, thanks to its brevity, sad in that wow, that really was lame kind of way - first page recap of the Disassembled disaster, Bendis starts things off with a shadowy meeting between a silhouetted figure and a thug who turns out to be Electro.…