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On ideological incoherence in Iron Man.
I feel vindicated by the revelation that Iron Man went into production without a shooting script, if only because now I know the reason Robert Downey Jr. had so few quality lines is that he and director Jon Favreau were making up the dialogue as they...
Scott McCloud learns to follow the advice he'd later dole out.
(You stop blogging for five days and you forget how to write a draft. This was near enough to what I intended its finished form to be that I'll let it stay up. One last bit: I meant to segue......
Why even fight if you don't fight dirty?
I always have a hard time convincing students that the violence in Watchmen is categorically different from the chompurfzung violence traditionally featured in comics. Dave Gibbons draws Watchmen in the same style he used in a previous collaboration ...
From the Annals of Fauxprundity: THIS STORY IS ABOUT GRANT MORRISON WRITING THIS STORY!
Two or three years back, tomemos and I were discussing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles and he said something like, "Morrison is the ultimate 'either/or' author writing today: you either love and appreciate him or hate and are incapable of understandi...
Because, of course, Jack London sucks harder than many comics, Part II
(My commenters wrote my first response to Bill's post for me. They nailed it so accurately posting what I'd originally written seems unnecessary. I'm neither kidding nor, it seems, necessary. So in the [likely] event of a [hilariously hi-jinxed] trag...
This post will have been written by my commenters (all of whom must contribute or risk pain of death).
I wrote a long reply to Bill's post about comics and canonization, but editing it this evening realized that I'd written the exact post regular readers would expect me to have written. So how about we do an experiment to......
Some words are best avoided when your nose starts to tickle.
SEK: But I don't think you fully appreciate the absurdity of the premise. We're supposed to believe that grown men fly around fighting crime wearing tights with their knick—(nose tingles)—with their knick—(nose tingles more)—with their knickâ...
How to teach the interrelatedness of historical context and audience via Warren Ellis's Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth
Someone emailed to ask how it is I teach historical context via a single comic. The book in question: Warren Ellis's one-shot cross-over between the Wildstorm imprint Planetary and the DC franchise that is the Batman. Ellis created the book......
What's wrong with Reading Comics? Quite a bit, actually.
Because late to the party is better than never, I’m reading Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics. When I’m not maybe being mocked, the book is a compelling read. This is a problem. Since tradition dictates picking nits with blurbs, I’ll start......
