Happy Birthday, Salomé! If our friends Danny and Xia are like a CBS sitcom, as he suggests, then I’m thinking Salomé and I are like the Jeffersons. Louise Jefferson is a warm-hearted person. Her personality is completely opposite from that of her husband George, who is quick-tempered and opinionated. She is levelheaded where George is
Review: Iron Man #1
Issues with Marvel’s questionable relaunches aside, I admit to being…intrigued. I wasn’t going to buy it at all but, seeing how Marvel didn’t release a single title of interest to me this week, I figured I’d take a gamble. It’s no secret that Warren Ellis is a good writer, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed his run
Right-Wing Comics Conspiracy!
For all those who scoff at anything that even remotely suggests so-called “conspiracy theories,” believing they’re all far-fetched fictions made up by paranoid whack-jobs, here’s a little something to chew on: right-wingers looking to inflitrate comic books! At Bill Jemas’ zenith as President of Marvel Comics he commissioned “4/11,” also known as The White Album,
My Top 5 Comic Book Titles
(ongoing series only) 1. Gotham Central – I’m a big fan of strong characterization and tight plotting, and this Batman-themed take on the classic police procedural, a la Hill Street Blues and Homicide: Life on the Street, features some of the strongest writing in comics. Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka are terrific, and Michael Lark’s
“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, edit.” While that’s not always true, in light of my inability to write something in time for the newly-launched e-zine of “cutting-edge non-fiction,” loupe, I’ve decided to do the next best thing…launch a web site of my own to highlight all of the great writing I come across
Eminem really stepped up to the plate with his latest single, Mosh, evoking memories of Public Enemy’s Fight the Power glory days and offering a glimmer of hope for rap’s going back to the future and becoming relevant again. The animated video is a powerful visual statement as well and needs to go into instant
The Forgotten is nothing like The Sixth Sense and to suggest otherwise is reductionism at it’s worst. If anything, the most appropriate [reductionist] synopysis, and quite possibly the studio pitch, would be to say that it’s like Ransom crossed with the X-Files, with a strong female lead. Of course, that probably wouldn’t sell very many
Paul Berman rips apart The Motorcycle Diaries, the cult of Che and so-called “American intellectuals” in a blistering article on Slate. The Cult of Che Don’t applaud The Motorcycle Diaries. By Paul Berman The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved
While Batman, and I guess Moon Knight, would be the most obvious alter egos, neither was a Legionnaire… You’re Brin Londo, Timber Wolf! Which Legionnaire are you? brought to you by Quizilla It’s been years since I’ve read a Legion book so I’m not sure how on the mark this is, but the description works
Comic Book Wednesday is like an oasis in the middle of the drudgery that is Monday-Friday. Picked up more than I expected to this week, including bags, and am nearly halfway to another Midtown Comics rebate! As it is, I need to pick up another longbox as the collection is nearing 1,000 comics. Damn Omar