Editor’s Note: A few days after Rich Kreiner wrote this review, he had second thoughts, which were unfortunately run on the website Oct. 8, before his first thoughts. Please forget that you read that post, read this post, then go back in time to read his follow-up post. Sorry and thanks.
At Long Last, Comedy in Comics
At HU, I continue blogging through the Moto Hagio collection A Drunken Dream with a look at the lame formulaic romance of the story “Angel Mimic”.
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Rob reviews Abortion Andy: Baby Steps, by G.P. Bonesteel.
GP Bonesteel’s Abortion Andy: Baby Steps is an outrageously vicious satire of the confluence of Christian Right politics and Madison Avenue strategy. At the same time, it’s a character-based workplace …
The Weisinger Resources List continues, this time with books by or about Mort Weisinger, the most feared and renowned editor of the Silver Age.
Having just gotten back from BICS, the Birmingham comics convention, you’ll see a few british comics pop up here over the course of the following weeks. Visiting BICS itself was a sobering experience though.
Having informed myself beforehand, BICS …
A saturnine saga of an American bozo’s (Spencer Tracy as Tom Garner) mottled rise to eminence as a railway tycoon: The Power and the Glory (screenplay by Preston Sturges, direction, William K. Howard) opens with the tycoon’s sumptuous funeral mass. Then, between flashback episodes, a middle-aged couple (a longtime friend/employee, Henry, and his skeptical wife) debate Garner’s qualities as an American icon.
Paperback Wednesday: Tasteful to the point of death, zany to the … DAWK!!
At HU, Richard Cook provides a chronicle of images of Asians on comics covers from the 1930s to the present.
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