Weekly Haul: July 1st
Every Day Is Like Wednesday —
... There’s some actual crying-crying, when Congorilla cries over the bodies of the score of dead mountain gorillas he lived with, because really, what other motivation does a giant golden gorilla have for being a superhero other than the slaughter of his loved ones? (Please go see Douglas Wolk now). ...
Linkarama@Newsarama
Blog@Newsarama —
... this summer, but a half dirty-dozen of ‘em showed up to review JL:CFJ, on the week of the Fourth of July holiday. The comic doesn’t fare too well, but it was honestly pretty fascinating to see the various strategies employed to criticize it. Douglas Wolk was first out the gate with an elegant single doctored-image allusion review (sinle allusion reviews really aren’t something you see every day), ...
Bad comics vs. HILARIOUSLY bad comics
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources —
Bad comics come and go and are usually forgotten by the next week, because there’s another bad comic or two coming out soon enough. HILARIOUSLY bad comics, however, like a certain comic featuring Oliver Queen weirdly declaring his undying love for a guy who once destroyed the universe and then blamed an giant bug for it, are classic, because they inspire … Photoshopping!
First, there’s Douglas Wolk’s excellent Promethea homage. Next, Caleb realizes that if Hal is quoting Glenn Danzig, the book makes a lot more sense. Finally, ...
Sunday Brunch: 7/5/08
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources —
... WHILE MY GORILLA GENTLY WEEPS: Douglas Wolk condenses a review of Justice League: Cry for Justice #1 into one beautiful panel, and introduces us to Weeping Congorilla at the same time. ...


