Over at Indie Pulp and with the assist of IP’s own A.N. Ommus, I wrote a bit about Scott Pilgrim and how it’s very similar to an alternative comics classic, Love and Rockets. Fantasy elements like the wrestling, superheroes and video game logic are the fun, enjoyable parts of the Hernandez Brothers and O’Malley’s work, [...]
Tags: Bryan Lee O'Malley, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Love and Rockets, Scott Pilgrim
I don’t think I’ve posted a link to my review of Scott Morse’s Strange Science Fantasty #1 that’s up at Indie Pulp right now. As you might expect, then, the world of the Gearheads has no rules and follows its own logic or anti-logic to such an extreme you might as well be experiencing a [...]
Plastics. A funny thought hit me at the end of Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour– is this comics’ version of Mike Nichols’ film The Graduate? Can you draw a connection between Mrs. Robinson and Knives Chau? Between a future in plastics and a future over the oven of a short order cook? The final book in [...]
Tags: Bryan Lee O'Malley, Mike Nichols, Scott Pilgrim, The Graduate
Star Wars Tags: Atom.com,Atom Originals,Atom Blog,Upload Videos Star Wars: Forgotten Realm is a movie my cousin’s husband has been working on forever. In fact, my cousin and her daughter are featured quite predominantly in this trailer that he’s put together. (That cutie at the beginning is Victoria.) This trailer has been entered in the Star [...]
Note: This is my review of the third Scott Pilgrim book from 2006. This one still remains my favorite Scott Pilgrim book. It’s common of any series to say that you have to give it a couple of volumes to get into it and I think this volume is where Bryan Lee O’Malley really discovered [...]
It’s the return of the weekly shopping list. Many comics will enter but there’s only one release this week that really matters. But in fairness, there are other books coming out this week. Legion Of Super-Heroes Vol 6 #3– This books scratches an inch right now so I’m enjoying it for that. Captain America Two [...]
As we look for new frontiers to develop, colonize and eventually exploit, movies point us in the direction of our own dreams and memories. Christopher Nolan has already explored this with 2,000’s Memento, the story of a man who’s lost his memories, where every moment is a new and unique experience for him whether he [...]
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Ellen Page, Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leonardo DiCaprio
I started out the whole online writing thing sometime in 2003 with an old site called Mediasharx. If I remember right, Mediasharx rose out of the remains of the old Zentertainment site. I was on the Zentertainment mailing list back in 2003 (remember mailing lists?) and somewhere during that time, Mediasharx had a posting where [...]
I don’t know exactly when it happened but I’ve become a big fan of Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti’s Jonah Hex stories. I never really paid any attention to either of the writers, other than Palmiotti’s career as an inker and the Jonah Hex always seemed to me like the character of an older fan [...]
If there’s anything I’d love to do one day, it’s see C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhäuser Gate. For some reason, I can already tell that that’s going to be one of the things in my bucket list that will never get accomplished.