As if to show how rusty I am at podcasting, I spend an entire show calling one of Jeff Lemire’s characters in Sweet Tooth by the wrong name. Whenever you hear me call a character “Sheppard,” please substitute in “Jeppard” and just ignore my own silly error.
So, I’m back after almost a year with a [...]
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March 9, 2010
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Wednesday’s Haul 3/10/10– Sweet Tooth & Marvel: 1985
By Scott Cederlund in comics, podcasts- WH
February 22, 2010
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Random Quote: Martin Scorsese on Criticism
By Scott Cederlund in random quote“It’s not important if a critic ‘like’ or ‘doesn’t like’ a movie. What is important is that he engages with it fully, brings to his responses the conviction, the passion, that the director brings to the films’ making. Opinion is evanescent, but the work abides.”
Martin Scorsese in the introduction to SCORSESE BY EBERT.
February 14, 2010
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Do I dare eat a peach?
By Scott Cederlund in comicsSo today happens to be my birthday, my 40th one at that and all day, I’ve had two kind of geeky (but in different ways) things going through my mind.
First, the trailer to a little movie called FREE ENTERPRISE:
I first watched this movie in the weeks before my 30th birthday and in many ways, I [...]
January 25, 2010
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Happiness is…
By Scott Cederlund in comics… a friend who loans you his copy of SUPERMAN VS MUHAMMAD ALI so that 32 years after it was actually published, you can finally read the book.
I’ve never even held a copy of this in my hands until today.
January 12, 2010
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Review: Elektra Assassin by Frank Miller & Bill Sienkiewicz
By Scott Cederlund in Review, comicsFor those of you who have come to the conclusion that Frank Miller is crazy only after reading All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder or after seeing The Spirit really need to go back and read 1986’s Elektra Assassin. According to Comicbookdb.com, the last issue of Miller and Mazzucchelli’s seminal Daredevil: Born Again [...]
Tags: Bill Sienkiewicz, Elektra, Frank Miller
January 5, 2010
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Review: Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
By Scott Cederlund in Review, comicsThere are words I’m familiar with but don’t have any personal knowledge or experience of: blockade, Kalashnikov, fedayeen, Gaza, Palestine, Israel. These are words from a different world and maybe even a different time that are far, far removed from my own suburban American experiences. I don’t know what it’s like to watch my family [...]
Tags: Joe Sacco
December 24, 2009
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@ Pop Syndicate– Daytripper #1
By Scott Cederlund in Review, comicsGabriel Ba and Fabio Moon’s Daytripper was one of my most anticipated comics of 2009.
“It’s not fair but I went into Daytripper looking for a return of the type of stories they told in De: Tales. Daytripper #1 shares similar elements to De: Tales; the Brazilian setting and the emphasis more on the little moments [...]
Tags: Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba
December 17, 2009
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The came from inner space
By Scott Cederlund in comicsSince it first appeared online, there’s something about Mike Deodato’s cover for Dark Avengers #12 that’s stuck with me.
I liked the idea of the team, small amidst a sea of white. For all of the power that those characters have, this simple cover makes them relatively powerless and small.
That’s when it hit me– small. I [...]
December 8, 2009
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It’s the time of the season…
By Scott Cederlund in comicsOr “It’s comics. Hooray Comics!”
Comics have me down today. It’s not because of anything in the comics but because of the lack of enthusiasm anyone has about comics. It started this morning with Chad Nevett and Tim Callahan’s two part dirge about mainstream comics here and here and then it carried over to Tucker and [...]
December 8, 2009
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@ Pop Syndicate– Sweet Tooth #4
By Scott Cederlund in Review, comicsOver at Pop Syndicate, I wrote the following about Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth #4:
“I’ve been having a hard time writing about Sweet Tooth, not because it isn’t good (it’s excellent) but because I’m not sure yet what Jeff Lemire is doing with this book. Sweet Tooth #4 takes place mostly in a hotel room, where [...]
