24 Hour Comic Day 2: This Time, About The Folks Behind The Comics

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on October 4, 2009

Categories: Reviews

Despite what it sounds like, it’s a compliment when I call CONVERSATIONS WITH ADD a frustrating read. For those unfamiliar with it – which may be most reading this – it’s a free e-book collection of interviews and Q&As with comic folk conducted by Alan David Doane over the last ten years for ComicBookGalaxy.com as well as his radio station, and it’s full of names you’ll recognize: Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Mark Millar, Joe Quesada, Mark Waid, Brett Warnock, Peter Bagge, Seth, and many many more. What’s frustrating about it is twofold, and both pretty much the nature of the beast – Some of the interviews are so old that I wish they’d had a little more background information…  Read More…

Hey, Guys, What’s With All This About The Comics? Jeff On Some Old Stuff

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on

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Man, oh man. Am I out of shape with this writing review thing… that Firefox extension I added? The one that’s supposed to write them for me while I play flash games? It totally doesn’t work! But when Douglas announced he was going to be writing reviews during 24 Hour Read Comics All Day day, a bunch of us Savage types figured we would also post so… Savage…Critics…Assemble? After the jump: stuff so old, the newest thing is like two weeks old. Woo! Hang fire! BLACKEST NIGHT #3: My significantly atrophied critical faculties fail me here—I can’t figure out whether to give Geoff Johns not enough credit or too much credit. If I go for the former, the gruesome bathetic…  Read More…

24 Hour Comic Day? But I’ve Only Read Seven Comics!

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on October 3, 2009

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To interrupt Douglas’ 24 Hour Reviewathon slightly, I thought I’d share short thoughts about what little I have read recently that wasn’t the Absolute Promethea collection (No extras? I’m surprised) or the end of Paul Levitz’s run on Legion of Super-Heroes (which noticably becomes the Keith Giffen show more and more the closer it gets to the end). Which is to say, not a lot. But still! DETECTIVE COMICS #857: Another VERY GOOD issue, even with the last-minute revelations about Alice (which felt cheap and hopefully lead somewhere interesting, so as to remove the “What, I’m reading mid-90s X-Books all of a sudden?” taste from my mouth). JH Williams’ art continues to just amaze, so much so that news that…  Read More…

Douglas vs. Write About Comics All Day Day 2009, Pt. 2 of Several

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Posted by: Douglas Wolk on

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Two I didn’t like so much, under the cut: “Logicomix” and “Dark Entries.” LOGICOMIX: AN EPIC SEARCH FOR TRUTH: This is a comics biography of Bertrand Russell (preview here) that’s been getting a lot of exceptionally enthusiastic praise lately: Bryan Appleyard of the Sunday Times called it “probably the best and certainly the most extraordinary graphic novel I have ever come across,” which makes me suspect that he has not come across very many of any kind. It’s by a relatively large cast, which is fine: Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou are credited with “concept & story,” Doxiadis with the script, Alecos Papadatos with “character design & drawings,” Annie Di Donna with color. All four of them actually appear…  Read More…

Douglas vs. Write About Comics All Day Day 2009, Pt. 1 of At Least 1

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Posted by: Douglas Wolk on

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It’s 24 Hour Comics Day, and it’s also Read Comics All Day Day, and I figured I might join the festivities myself. I’m not going to be reviewing comics here all day–I have some things I need to write for other places–but figured I could mention a few worth-seeking-out things I picked up at SPX, as well as some other stuff. Below the cut: three of my favorite things I’ve read lately, “Woman King,” “Driven by Lemons” and “Ganges” #3. WOMAN KING: This is a small, self-published book by Colleen Frakes that knocked me for a loop–an understated but sharp-fanged fable about a human girl who becomes king of the bears during a war between bears and humans. (There’s a…  Read More…

Hibbs quick hits from 9/30 shipping

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on October 2, 2009

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Just a couple of quick thoughts, to keep my hand in the game… ASTRO CITY ASTRA SPECIAL #1: I’ve kind of disliked the whole “Dark Ages” storyline — just feels like it’s been going on and on and on with no end in sight, with characters I don’t care about all that much. AC has always been best (IMO) with “done in one” stories. Well, this one is “done in two”, but it worked a lot better for this reader than anything else lately. It might also because I like Astra a lot. Either way, this felt very much like a “return to form” for me, and I thought it was VERY GOOD. I also really liked the cover stock…  Read More…