As I remember now how the Death of Gwen Stacy affected me in my youth
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One more Comicon Anecdote
we hosted Harlan Ellison
Why Do Critics Suck?
Why
All Hail Patton Oswalt!
the closest thing we have to a Geek Treasure
My Comic Book Dream Come True!
Sixteen months ago, my friend David Mack (on one of his frequent trips to Los Angeles) almost spent his birthday alone. He was a guest in a house without a host in a week when almost everyone else he knew was out of town. Luckily, his temporary residence was square between the gallery where I…
Bashar al-Ghul? The Real Scarecrow?
Is Bashar al-Assad really The Scarecrow? A Levantine villain hell-bent on chaos releases a potent, airborne fear gas upon a metropolitan population with the intent of reducing citizens to deluded, hallucinating lunatics. Sounds like the fiendish plot of Ra’s al-Ghul and his cohort Scarecrow from the movie Batman Begins, right? But it also describes the…
Grant Morrison on the 2012 Apocalypse
Grant Morrison: wonderfully insightful, as always. Thanks to the folks at the Grant Morrison: Talking With God facebook page and SequartTV for this. If you don’t have Grant’s book, run out and buy it. The Audiobook is quite good, also. If you’re not already following sequart.org, you should at it your RSS feed. Their critical…
Daredevil’s Long Goodbye
Daredevil has been a sort of generational touchstone at Marvel Comics since Frank Miller took over the title in the late 1970s. His initial work on the title–especially when collaborating with inker Klaus Jansen, was (for a time) considered the best comic book run in the long history of the superhero. His revisitation of the…
A Valiant Effort Rewarded
The new Harbinger (#6) The story of the Valiant Universe is a brief and convoluted tale of greed, double-crosses, and espionage–and that doesn’t even address the comics they published! In 1989 former Marvel CEO Jim Shooter found himself a persona non grata in the industry he helped shape and flourish. After a failed attempt to…
A Radical Strategy for Critical Times
The filmmakers behind THE MATRIX and V FOR VENDETTA have teamed with the German art house director of RUN LOLA RUN and PERFUME to independently finance a project that is so hard to classify they’ve released a five and a half minute trailer AND a two and a half minute directors’ introduction to help market…