Tag: Rant

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Buzzscope: What’s a Nubian? #1

When I first came across PopCultureShock.com last year, it was the combination of the favorable response in their forums to the announcement of Reggie Hudlin taking on Black Panther (in contrast to the immediate sniping over at NEWSarama and throughout the comics blogosphere, with ignorant comments like, “Oh no! He’s going to gangstify the Black

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Buzzscope Reviews: 10/5/05

Cranked a few out this week, including our first “Staff Picks” entry… Amazing Fantasy #13With the underlying concept of superpowered humans who eschew capes and tights – and are inherently more dangerous as a result – Karl Kesel quickly establishes a credible setting that begs for elaboration, while teasing just enough information to pique the

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Comment: Larsen Backtracking?

So Erik Larsen managed to rile up the internet last week with his rant about comic book creators working on established characters for the Big Two instead of creating their own, ignorantly going with a slavery metaphor – But you stay shackled to that chain and pick that cotton and tell us all how “nice”

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Link: Erik Larsen Goes Off

Wow! An open letter to comic book creators everywhere: Is that all you’ve got? Really? Because if it is– that’s pretty fucking sad. …I understand the desire to clutch on to the security of a guaranteed page rate. And I understand the attraction of working on characters that you grew up with. But at what

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CBC Quickees: 9/14/05

Better late than never, and it’s a small but mostly good batch… All-Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder #2 (DC Comics, $2.99): Oh, Frank, what in the hell are you doing? On first read, I groaned at how bad the scripting was, particularly Batman who sounds like a crazed Adam West auditioning to play

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CBC Quickees: 9/8/05

No Buzzscope reviews this week as my both of my kids started school last week and I started today (online), so free time has been scarce. The past two weeks’ lessened output have been an unexpected but refreshing break as every now and then it’s nice to simply read comics for the pleasure. On that

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Blogaround Challenge Met!

Via Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog: Here’s what you gotta do. Go to the Comics Weblog Update-A-Tron 3000 and click through to at least ten comic book blogs. You can do more, but ten is the minimum. I would also stick with blogs that have been updated within the last couple of weeks, but that’s not a hard and

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Fun With Reviews

I posted my aforementioned review of Combat Zone: True Tales of GI’s in Iraq, Vol. 1 TP to Amazon.com yesterday, as I do with anything I review that they happen to sell, and have already received two emails about it from people not thrilled with what I wrote. (Mind you, in the 2+ plus years

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Preview: DC’s October Solicitations

CBR has DC’s October Solicitations up, and here’s what I’m particularly looking forward to reading and/or snarking: BATMAN: GOTHAM COUNTY LINE #1 Written by Steve Niles; Art and cover by Scott HamptonAcclaimed writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) joins distinctive painter Scott Hampton (BATMAN: NIGHT CRIES) for a 3-issue Prestige Format miniseries that uncovers

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Preview: Marvel’s October Solicitations

Buzzscope has Marvel’s October Solicitations up, and here’s what I’m particularly looking forward to reading and/or snarking: House of M #8 (of 8)Marvel’s big summer event that may or may not have huge repercussions for the entire Marvel Universe, depending on which interview you read, concludes. One thing’s clear already, it’s yet another story centering

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