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Farewell to Tony DeZuniga

I learned last week that Tony DeZuniga, co-creator of the DC Comics character, Jonah Hex, passed away last week.  Mr. DeZuniga penciled many books for DC and Marvel from the 1970s on, including Batman, Detective Comics, Phantom Stranger, Vigilante, Iron Man, X-Men, Thor and countless others.  His most famous work, however was on Jonah Hex. [...]

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The Shadow Knows

I have a confession, I’m not a big fan of Garth Ennis.  His work, while well respected, has tended to represent the things that I don’t like about comics.  Even so, I was willing to give his new series, THE SHADOW, a chance because out of fondness for the character.  I read the DC series [...]

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Top 5 Properties In Need of a Comic Book Revamp

It was announced this week that James Robinson will be writing a new He-Man and the Masters of the Universe revamp for DC Comics.  Generally speaking, I try to avoid revamps at the movies, but I’ve often enjoyed them as comics.  Revamped movies almost always stink because they lose the thing that made a particular [...]

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The Pitch

Pamela Mullin, editor at Vertigo, posted Paul Cornell’s pitch for SAUCER COUNTRY on the Vertigo blog the other day.  As a writer and a writing teacher, I have to admit that I love stuff like this.  It gives us insight into the mind of the creator, and also reveals a pitch that was actually accepted [...]

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Who Watches The Watchmen?

Last month, DC Comics announced a series of controversial prequels to, possibly, the most influential comic mini-series of all time: The Watchmen.  The prequels are: RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones DR. MANHATTAN (4 [...]

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Head Games

January 2012 was the worst month of my life.  It started off well enough, celebrating New Year’s in Little Washington with my wife and kids, teaching a writing workshop for teens at the Rust Library, and then flying to Hawaii for a conference.  We had a free day in Hawaii, so I headed over to [...]

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Tiny Titans Fan Page

I’m writing this week from Honolulu, Hawaii, where it is a beautiful 80 degrees.  I’m here for business, attending a telecoms conference where market analysts present slide after slide of statistical data while the sun sinks slowly into the Pacific.  As I was sitting in one of these sessions this morning, learning about the net [...]

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The Adventures of Tin Tin

I took my daughters (3 and 7) to see the Tin Tin movie during the holidays and was pleasantly surprised by the movie.  I’d never read any of the Tin Tin books, so I came to the theater with no pre-conceived notions.  What I found as the story unfolded was an exciting adventure story where [...]

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Leviathan Strikes

This week saw the release of Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes, a $6.99 one-shot that ended the “first season” of Grant Morrison’s latest (and possibly last) Batman epic.  The art (by Cameron Stewart and Chris Burnham) was quite good, and the story  was surreal on multiple levels, which is pretty much par for the course with [...]

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Why would I buy that?

There is an interesting article over at Newsarama that asks fans why new characters and concepts struggle.  Obviously, this is a problem not only for comics, but pretty much every corner of the entertainment world.  I am absolutely sick of remakes at the movies and on TV.  Reading the article got me to thinking about [...]

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