Watching Iron Man 2 brought about a couple of the senior moments one will have if one is more conversant with the characters as practiced 30 or more years ago than in the current standard revised versions. (One particular example …
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Fisking Berlatsky
Posted by R. Fiore on April 29th, 2010 at 1:10 PMAs I once said about another commentator on these pages, the way to ignore someone is to ignore them. However, if a fellow insists on making a spectacle of the chip on his shoulder, one may succumb to the temptation …
Go Ye and Figure
Posted by R. Fiore on April 20th, 2010 at 7:05 PMStrange vindication for Dave Sim comes from Tasha Robinson, critic for the Onion A.V. Club, who when asked for a work of art that changed her life, cited the masculinist rant in Sim’s book Reads.
Beginning and Ending with Vikings
Posted by R. Fiore on April 15th, 2010 at 9:40 PMWhat have I been doing when I was supposed to be blogging? Well, I went to the movies . . .
If you’re like me the trailers for How to Train Your Dragon did an excellent job of convincing you …
Real Horrorshow
Posted by R. Fiore on March 15th, 2010 at 2:23 AMI saw Stanley Kubrick’s movie of A Clockwork Orange again recently, and it brought to mind some thoughts while not specifically germane to comics are germane to morally ambiguous entertainment, which comics tend to be. (I’m assuming you’ve all seen …
Well, My Guy Won
Posted by R. Fiore on March 7th, 2010 at 7:46 PMLogorama wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. Last time I checked, the link in the link still had the full version of the movie streaming.…
About That There Avatar Movie
Posted by R. Fiore on March 6th, 2010 at 1:57 AMSome disappointment was expressed that I posted on Avatar (which Price Waterhouse might be anointing with a Best Picture Oscar e’en as we speak) with no more to say than a one line joke. If I did have something to …
If They Don’t Win It’s a Crime
Posted by R. Fiore on February 22nd, 2010 at 9:47 PMThere’s only one movie I’m rooting for at the Oscars, and that’s Logorama, a French Best Animated Short nominee. It’s a priceless cop movie send-up set in a Los Angeles composed of and populated by trademarks, product icons and …
Being Too Ironic
Posted by R. Fiore on February 21st, 2010 at 10:30 PM
© 2009 Art Spiegelman, in a manner of speaking.
R. Fiore’s observations about the comics section of The San Francisco Panorama (McSweeney’s No. 33).
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