savagecritic.com - 10/29/2009
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Years ago I came across an eye-opening quote from Jaron Lanier in the liner notes of the reissued Gary Numan album The Pleasure Principle. Google reveals that it was pulled from this Wired essay. Here's what it said:"Style used to be, in part, a record of the technological limitations of the ...
robot6.comicbookresources.com - 10/23/2009
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Frank Miller and Eva Mendes (photo by UGO.com's
Dr. Know) He's one of the most influential comics...
creators of all time (and my personal favorite, might I add), but Frank Miller has kept a pretty low profile since the critical and box-office ...
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Frank Miller, conservative comment-thread commentator
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Daring to defend The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
... by daring any and all comers to challenge me to defend what is, to many readers, Miller's most indefensible work: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Miller and colorist Lynn Varley's sequel to their seminal revisionist-superhero classic The Dark Knight Returns. I've always loved that book, but I'd never written about it at length. Well, David Brothers of The 4th Letter went ahead and took the dare and laid the challenge at my feet.
The result? I wrote a review of The Dark Knight Strikes Again for The Savage Critic(s), another one of ...
James on Watchmen / Savage Critics on Dark Knight Strikes Again
Remarkable —
... [James says this on the blog, and then BAM the same day the Savage Critics write about Dark Knight Strikes Again. Just thought I would link.] ...
Linkarama@Newsarama
Blog@Newsarama —
... Reign” has been less than satisfying for me, in large part because it seems like a branding exercise rather than a story, a new status quo in which nothing ever actually happens—dark or light—as the whole Marvel line simply waits around for the next Secret Invasion-sized event. He did so while expressing some admiration for Dark Reign—The List: Punisher #1, in which something pretty big and pretty dark does happen. Also on Savage Critics, Sean T. Collins defends The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Let the record ...
They Ripped His Trousers. Now Denim is his Plaid.
Vibrational Match —
... "Just a week or two before I wrote that piece [comparing The Dark Knight Strikes Again to glo-fi pop music], I was complaining to someone about the pieces you'll read here and there along the lines of "This issue of Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers: Klarion the Witch-Boy is exactly like my favorite Sleater-Kinney album!!!" Now, art is not made in a vacuum, and even when direct influences aren't in play, resonances can be--people can tap into similar ideas or make similar decisions. It's as valuable for critics to be aware of what's going on in multiple disciplines as it ...
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Autopsy Of The Butterflies: Ten Questions And Geoff
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The Outsiders return to BRAVE AND THE BOLD —
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