Saga has won a bazillion awards, sold stacks on stacks of single issues, and has over eighty gazillion readers (these number may be fabricated). But why?
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Feed SubscriptionWhat the *bleep* Makes a Graphic Novel a Graphic Novel? A Sort-Of Review of Essex County
According to TIME magazine, of the 100 greatest novels ever written, only one of them has pictures. And it’s not by Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein. You probably already know that book is Alan Moore’s opus, Watchmen. TIME describes the comic ...
Read More »The Rot Against the Green—The New Swamp Thing
Yanick Paquette’s Swamp Thing looks badass. Despite a life dedicated to writing, that is the only description I have been able to muster for the art in this book. And it’s quite possibly the most fitting if I may excuse ...
Read More »The Rot Against the Red—The New Animal Man
A hero is only interesting if we can see him sweat. This is the idea behind the recently concluded Batman film series reboot spearheaded by Christopher Nolan, and one that has been showing up in comic books as far back ...
Read More »A (not so) Friendly Game
Subtitle: Who knew a puppy killing contest can go horribly wrong? Sub-Subtitle: No one is safe in indie comics … not even Fluffy. This review has been a long time coming. It all started when our editor took a throwaway line in an ...
Read More »A Review that Refuses to Make a Pun about the Dark Knight Rising in Its Title
According to Wikipedia, four years have passed since The Dark Knight premiered, continuing Nolan’s gritty Batman resurgence in the movie realm set in motion three years before with Batman Begins. Seven years have been building to this—the last of Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy. My ...
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