Archive for the ‘comics’ Category

Daytripper #3–  An enjoyable series so far.  As always, the art (mostly Fabio Moon I think but with some parts done by Gabriel Ba) is lovely but I wish that Dave Stewart's colors could show up a bit better on the Vertigo paper.  Like so many Vertigo books, his colors are coming out a [...]

So I've been reading a lot of Morrison lately, primarily his non-mainstream work in Joe The Barbarian, The Filth and now Flex Mentallo. In each story, Morrison's childhood fantasies and heroes try to break through into the "real" world. Another writer I've been reading a lot of is Kurt Busiek, mainly his Astro City.
Driving around [...]

Even though I've had it since it first came out, I finally started to read Mike Oliveri's The Pack: Winter Kill.  I'm about halfway through the book and it's a great, tight read.  And even though I'm halfway through it, I don't think I've gotten to the heart of the story yet, which is in [...]

After Chris Marshall’s interview with Fantagraphic’s Kim Thompson, I ordered the new edition of Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant.  I’ve never read much of Foster’s work even though I’ve always known about it.  I finally got the book yesterday and was easily blown away by it.  [...]

Ken Grimwood's 1986 novel Replay is one of those books that, even though I've read it only a handful of times in the last 20 years, has always stuck with me.  In the book, Jeff Winston, a 43 year old business man, dies at his desk one day only to wake up in 1963 as [...]

This poster for the upcoming The Losers just makes me feel good because it manages to almost completely capture Jock's original cover.

If I can get a bunch of other stuff done this week, I really want to reread The Losers before the movie comes out.  It was one of my favorite comics of a couple [...]

Well, now that Viz's Oishinbo is over, maybe Marvel will fill in the gap left behind and do a Japanese food-based comic book.  Oh, wait, it looks like they already have:

Mmmmmm… California rolls. 
This is from something called Wolverine: Savage which comes out next week, which I know really kinda want to check out. [...]

A John Hughes coming-of-age story by way of Jack Kirby and He Man.
To Grant Morrison, the world is so much bigger, dangerous and even wonderful than what we see and experience every day.  Usually, Morrison is trying to tell us that with big, loud and colorful comics, whether it's in New X-Men, All Star [...]

… 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.