comixology.com - 6/15/2009
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In case you haven't heard, a new Batman series started up the other week. It's titled Batman and Robin , and it's all about Batman and Robin, who're actually a new Batman and Robin, the newness of which is emphasized by a knowing appropriation of the tone of older Batmen and Robins. I definitely ...
avclub.com - 6/12/2009
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avclub.com —
When All-Star Superman finished its run after what
seemed like decades of waiting, plenty of critics were...
more than willing to add Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s maxi-series to the pantheon of the greatest Superman stories ever told. More than a ...
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Books: Comics Panel: June 12, 2009
comicbooklegacy.blogspot.com - 6/9/2009
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comicbooklegacy.blogspot.com —
Amazing Spider-Man #596 Creative Team Writer: Joe Kelly
Artist: Paulo Siqueira Inker: Amilton Santos Colorist: Jeremy Cox...
Story - American Son Part 2 Review Part two of American Son was just a great entry to what looks to be one of the best Spider-Man stories we have gotten on this ...
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Legacy Shorts: Comic Book Reviews for 6/3/09
eatsleepgeek.com - 6/12/2009
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eatsleepgeek.com —
Well here we go again with another fun
filled review of comics from last week. It looks...
like once again Iwent another week without buying crap so hurray for me I guess. Well no more fucking around lets get right to it. First up we have Batman and Robin # 1, the new monthly from Morrison ...
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Two Against the Modern World
Jog - The Blog —
*New column is up. This one peers into two recent works that decry an art prone to repetition, through a wider critique of societal self-preservation and the comfy heroes that champion it by default: the irregular comic book project Seaguy and the new-to-R1 2008 anime movie The Sky Crawlers, from director Mamoru Oshii of Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor and Urusei Yatsura, among many other endeavors. Let me know what you think! ...
A full week of passion beckons.
Jog - The Blog —
... The Sky Crawlers (a new R1 dvd release of Mamoru Oshii's 2008 theatrical anime; a world of cold fighter jets, arrested development and sorry, looping time as a metaphor for wounded art - Seaguy is duly referenced) ...
Everyone’s A Critic: A round-up of comic book reviews and thinkpieces
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
... he’s reviewing Chris Blain’s Gus and His Gang! And by reviewing, I mean throwing in constant asides to Benny Hill, Seinfield, Waterworld, Woody Allen and anal probes that nevertheless manage to perfectly capture the spirit of the initial work in question. Oh, just go read the thing.
• The Walrus looks at the career and art of Joost Swarte.
• What do Grant Morrison and the director of Ghost in the Shell have in common? Jog spells it out for you.
• Brandon Soderberg makes a pretty good case for why ...
The Silent Detective
Jog - The Blog —
... are Event and Correlation, which, in the abstract, exist apart from forms. But even superhero series that thrive away from these mechanisms (or non-shared-universe genre-or-thereabouts work) tend to attract the most attention for their place in the continuity of their writers' works; just for fun, go back to all your favorite Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye posts and check how much space is devoted to Cameron Stewart. Hell, start with mine, they're right down with the worst of 'em). And then there's even simpler troubles; a lot ...
Ponyo chat in this post.
Jog - The Blog —
... : a long, absorbing conversation between famed director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers) and Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki, in which the characteristically immodest Oshii absolutely chomps into Ponyo (while still showing respect for its expressive power), decrying its lack of structure to the point where he cannot even consider it a "real" movie. Suzuki counters that this was fully Miyazaki's intent, to remove narrative strictures and animate a series of (to borrow Oshii's own term) " ...
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robot6.comicbookresources.com 6/4/2009 — Batman & Robin #1
Batman and Robin #1
by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
DC Comics, 32 pages, $2.99.
See, this is how it should have been from the start.
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majorspoilers.com 6/7/2009 — or - When G-Mo got his caps back
I picked up Batman and Robin #1 today and sat down to read it with great trepidation. I haven’t been the greatest fan of what has happened to the Batman titles over the last three years (as evident on the site), and ...
Wish I'd read 'em in this order.
joglikescomics.blogspot.com 6/4/2009 — Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye #3 (of 3) I know my mind is broken and all, but isn't that one hell of a Chris Ware pose Mom is striking up there? Jesus Christ I love that. Last time around , reader Moose N. Squirrel suggested I wasn't doing this ...
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