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Guttergeek Review: SGT. ROCK: THE LOST BATTALION

Posted by Alex Boney on May 31st, 2010 at 3:53 PM

Billy Tucci, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion (DC Comics, 2009). Hardcover, $24.99.

War comics are uniquely difficult to critique—especially on Memorial Day. It’s as though because these stories are rooted in the violent atrocity and sacrifice of real life, the military bravery on display creates an insular shield around the actual telling of the stories. This isn’t necessarily a lament. Some great war comics have been written since the 1940s, and the genre enjoys a distinguished place in the medium….

Deathstroke and Volcano Vagina

Posted by Dirk Deppey on May 14th, 2010 at 12:02 PM

I’m still elsewhere prepping an essay, but I had to drop in and share this: David Brothers just won this month’s Superhero Decadence Sweepstakes, with an example so inappropriate to the genre that you’ll wonder why parents ever allowed their children to read such things.

The Bill Willingham Interview (part four of four)

Posted by Dirk Deppey on April 30th, 2010 at 12:06 AM

The concluding installment of this 2006 interview finds the writer/creator of Fables discussing crossovers, the nature of magic in the DC universe, the changing face of the market for comics and — oh, yeah, Fables.

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Guttergeek Column: WEDNESDAY SHOP TALK

Posted by Alex Boney on March 10th, 2010 at 8:29 PM

The High Price of Superman

I’ve been reading a lot of Golden Age Superman comics the last couple months, so my eyes and ears have become unusually attuned to stories about the character. Over the last few years, I’ve also …