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Roasting Old Chestnuts:  Our Favorite Comic Book Cliches
Roasting Old Chestnuts: Our Favorite Comic Book Cliches
Like every other form of entertainment, comic books are full of cliches. The key difference? Spending a few decades as a marginalized art form has lent super-hero comics its own unique blend of old saws, and from the requisite fight between heroes ... Read more   Permalink  |  ...
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Nov. 4, 2009: Super Satan
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal — ... his pages are poorly constructed, the storytelling is weak and the use of shadow and scratchy lines robs the comic sections of their power.”   [Commentary] Black and white and startlingly offensive all over Link: Steven Grant, Vom Marlowe The roundtable discussion on race and comics continues.   [Commentary] Favorite comic-book clichés Link: Chris Sims But… there are so many to choose from…   ...