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Lovers I Am the West [Pop Heart Records] Sometime in the oughts, folk and shoegazy pop crossbred, creating a sparse, drony, soundtrack for coffee-shops gently orbiting the moon. Is this Chan Marshall’s fault? And has somebody named it already? In any case, whoever’s responsible, and whatever ...
Indie
Adam West
Most of your utilitarian bloggers are going to be taking off this week, so things will be a bit quiet around here — though there will still be content of some sort, never fear. Shortly after the holiday I'm told we may be moving over to our new location at TCJ.com. I'll pass along more details ...
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On HU I started this week off with a post on how superdickery has changed through the ages. Richard wrote about mediocre French mainstream title Spin Angels. Suat wrote about living with Walt Kelly original art. Kinukitty wrote about the somewhat squicky yaoi title Two of Hearts. Vom ...
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Gospel, thai, and some other stuff.... 1. Five Blind Boys of Mississippi — How Far Am I From Canaan? (Five Blind Boys of Mississippi 1947-1951) 2. Soul Stirrers — I'm a Soldier (Kings of the Gospel Highway) 3. Spirit of Memphis Quartet — Jesus Jesus (Kings of the Gospel Highway) 4. Swan ...
Indie
The Boys
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Astonishing X-Men #30 by Ellis, Bianchi, et al.
I picked this up because the art looked cool.
And, you know, the art is cool. The inks are interesting, with washes as well as lines and a very grimy palette of off green and brown and blue. The anatomy ...
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Face Down in the Mainstream: Astonishing X-Men, Grumpy ...
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Two of Hearts , Kano Miyamoto, 2008, Deux
Press Cat reaction shots. I love gratuitous cat reaction
shots. And you know what else I like? Romantic tales with damaged people who help each other heal. Which is what this story is about. There's an ...
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Gluey Tart: Two of Hearts
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As with any hobby, collecting comics original art
has its own complexities which take in both the
aesthetics and economics of the form. The latter aspect is one of the most hotly debated topics in the hobby because of the escalation of prices of ...
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Original Art: Living with Comics Art
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Spin Angels (a.k.a. Cross Fire ) auteur: Jean-Luc
Sala artiste: Pierre-Mony Chan éditeurs: Soleil/Marvel Bonjour! Comment allez-vous?
I may have missed out on the Sequential Surrender Monkeys roundtable, but I'm still going to review a comic from the ...
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La Nouvelle Action
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a
series of discussions about the way in which super-hero
comics tend to be structured around homosocial desire and the closet. You can read the whole series here . Just to resummarize quickly: the basic argument is that ...
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The Superdick in the Closet
On HU This week started out with my review of Young Schulz , a collection of Charles Schulz's comics featuring young adults at church. Kinukitty reviewed Way to Heaven which is not as good as the rock band Angel. I reviewed a handful of mahwa and manga, including Click, Bizenghast, and a ...
Marvel
Mostly droning and buzzing. 1. Robert Wyatt — Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road (Rock Bottom) 2. Terry Riley — Anthem of the Trinity (Shri Camel) 3. Mazzy Star — So Tonight That I Might See (So Tonight That I Might See) 4. Teenage Filmstars — Lapse (Rocket Charms) 5. Suishou No Fune — The ...
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Jason Little
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Steven Grant (who guest blogged here last week
) declares the super-hero dead dead dead: it's patently
clear to anyone studying market history that the fans are disinterested too. They don't buy new superheroes. They don't want them. Maybe it's ...
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Ain't Dead Yet
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www.paintermagazine.com With especial emphasis on the tutorials of
Wen-Xi Chen. For those who don't play in the
fields of digital art, Corel Painter X (or XI, which has just been released) is the big "other" art program. Unlike Photoshop, Painter is ...
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Corel Painter Official Magazine
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Youngran Lee Click 1-2 NetComics B&W;/softcover ISBN# 978-1-60009-202-2
Click is a comic about a transexual and his/her
heartache. If it were American, that would make it an alternative comic, probably with some sort of feminist agenda. Instead, it’s ...
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Manga! Manga! Manga!
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The Way to Heaven , Yamimaru Enjin, 2009,
Digital Manga Publishing Why don't I like this book?
Well, for starters, the backward E in Heaven. Let me share my thought process with you. I said, good lord, that's a beautiful cover. Those young men are ...
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Gluey Tart: The Way to Heaven
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Charles Schulz Schulz's Youth The publishing world is
doing right by Charles Schulz; virtually everything the man
did is making its way back into print. So now, alongside Fantagraphics’ steady reissue of all the Peanuts strips, we also have available ...
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You’re a Decent Church-Going Adolescent, Charlie Brown
On HU Most Utilitarian energy this week was spent Black and White and Startlingly Offensive All Over our roundtable on race. Extra thanks to Steven Grant for his guest contribution. Also of roundtable-related interest, Supergirl artist Jamal Igle stopped by in comments (he's got a couple of ...
Marvel
Disco, Amerie, and a little Thai pop. 1. Pamela Bowden — Ma tum hai ruk tummai (How to Make Love) (E Nang Dance) 2. Amerie — Tell Me You Love Me (In Love and War) 3. Amerie — Heard 'Em All (In Love and War) 4. Amerie — Dangerous (In Love and War) 5. Amerie — Higher (In Love and War) 6. ...
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(Black and White and Startlingly Offensive All Over
- Part 5) Readers looking for reviews , synopses
and reading guides pertaining to Gene Yang’s American Born Chinese should head straight to the links above. (1) Gene Yang's comic concerns an ...
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Gene Yang's American Born Chinese: A Few Observations
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We've had a lot of interesting comments on
the race and comics roundtable, some of which point
in similar directions — so rather than going through and saying the same thing over and over, I thought I'd try to hit some main points in this post. So to ...
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I Demand More Patriotic Comics, Damn It (Black and ...
