I’ve been reading comic books pretty much my whole life (with a break in my 20s and 30s that lasted about twenty years). I got my first bunch of books at about age five from my grandparents, a random assortment of comics including Archie, Richie Rich, and Scoobie-doo. I read those books over and over… Continue reading Make mine Image
At this point I’ve read roughly 220 pages of the massive 1020 page tome that is David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Every time I get to the point of wanting to dismiss it as stream of consciousness disconnected random thoughts strung together with no apparent concern for plot or characterization, I stumble into passages of… Continue reading Not quite knee-deep in Infinite Jest
I find our current culture’s fascination with spirituality interesting given that it is paired with a growing percentage of the population that affiliates with no specific faith tradition. I’m not sure how much this milieu contributes to the broad appeal of the comic book The Wicked + The Divine (my seventh book read so far… Continue reading The Wicked + The Divine – Vol 1
One review calls it “a comic book love letter to non-compliant women.” I’d call this sixth book I’ve read in 2016 a great story from Image comics and Kelly Sue Deconnick. Volume 1 of this book introduces some strong characters and also contains some funny and poignant back matter further fleshing out the world of… Continue reading Bitch Planet
Today I finished reading my fifth book this year, a delightfully twisted graphic novel from the folks at Comixtribe. Here’s a sample panel from early in the first issue: Oxymoron is a villain on the order of The Joker who spends this arc tormenting Officer Mary Clark and exposing the hypocrisies he sees in… Continue reading Oxymoron: The Lovliest Nightmare
I recently finished reading my third ‘book’ this year: Spiral is a 5-issue arc in Amazing Spider-Man 16.1 – 20.1 written by Gerry Conway and drawn by Carlo Barberi with inks by Juan Vlasco and colors by Israel Silva (plus letters by Joe Caramagna). I could also talk about ‘reading’ a fourth book since I… Continue reading Spiral
In an effort to keep better track of the many things I read I’m going to post brief notes anyway about each book I finish this year. And that includes the graphic novels and comic trades I read (though I won’t write about individual issues unless they are too incredible to skip). To that end,… Continue reading First book I’ve finished this year
For my pop-culture blog this week I’m going to point you to another blog: http://tickledtk.com/2015/02/five-unread-comic-books-begging-to-be-read-fandom5/ And her blog entry is about 5 great new (or relatively new) comic books to check out. I’ll try to move beyond comic books in my blogging entries soon but right now there are lots of good ones on my… Continue reading More recommended reading
This week I read the final parts of Spider-verse – the big Marvel event for Spider-Man for 2014-15 coming off of the last big Spider-Man event which was the whole Superior Spider-Man event. As I have written before, Spider-Man has long been my favorite character and I really enjoyed both Superior Spider-Man and Spider-verse as… Continue reading Reading Marvel
It’s a great time to be a Spider-Man fan. Marvel is wrapping up an excellent story line called Spider-verse that has introduced dozens of great new characters from across the ‘multi-verse’ who will hopefully play a role in the ongoing saga of this central Marvel comics character. At the same time Marvel and Sony just… Continue reading Spider-Man
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