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Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment: Everyone's A Critic: A round-up of comic book reviews and thinkpieces
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Wow, a must-read if you read/sell manga! RT @fschodt "New Atom Angel," by Joe McCulloch: http://bit.ly/107N4z 11/20/2009 |
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RT @fschodt An intelligent, in-depth review of Astro Boy in all his manifestations,"New Atom Angel," by Joe McCulloch: http://bit.ly/107N4z 11/20/2009 |
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Facetiousness aisde, this is a really good article http://bit.ly/107N4z (via @fschodt) 11/20/2009 |
Everyone's A Critic: A round-up of comic book reviews and thinkpieces
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
... Holmes talks about why Neil Gaiman's Sandman series matters: "[It] remains one of the most literate, imaginative and intricately plotted accomplishments in long-form comics storytelling out there."
• Sandy Bilus recommends Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms: "The book never feels preachy, but it certainly forces the reader to focus on this issue and raises his or her level of understanding about what the people of Hiroshima have endured."
• Joe McCulloch compares/contrasts the new Astro Boy movie with the original Tezuka manga.
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Best Bullet Butt Boy About
Jog - The Blog —
*New movie column, this time about the new not-really-a-hit Astro Boy movie (at least not in the U.S.), as related to a delightful little Osamu Tezuka tale from the late '60s in which the Mighty Atom beats the living shit out of United States forces in Vietnam. Urasawa should remake that one next. Enjoy! ...
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Blog@Newsarama —
... “The first time Astro Boy attacked United States servicemen was in 1967”: Joe “Jog” McCulloch puts Astro Boy’s latest assault on the U.S., in the form of a terrible animated film, in perspective in this column. ...
Thanks in advance for that.
Jog - The Blog —
... Astro Boy (Astro Boy's a real superhero, Spider-Man, he was fighting in 'Nam while you were salting up Aunt May's wheatcakes with baby tears in your bassinet every morning, asshole; covers the recent movie and pertinent manga context) ...
