Reading is fundamental. Don’t waste your time reading bad comics out of habit! My weekly look at select comic books…
Tag: Politics
Commentary (and rants) on national and local politics.
LINK: The politics of V For Vendetta
Film critic and playwright Brian Dauth, “November 3rd Club” Editor in chief Victor D. Infante, Performance artist and film critic…
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.
COMMENT: Valentino’s Black Emissary
Jim Valentino’s latest project, Emissary, sounds like it could generate some interesting message board debates that would likely become a…
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…
LINK: When Comics and Politics Clash!
Over at Newsarama, a lively debate sprung up on their message boards. That’s nothing new to Newsarama regulars, though. They…
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…