Love it or hate it, the new John Carter movie has spawned a lot of contemporary conversation about the books, comics, illustrations, fanzines–everyone has an opinion! My first exposure to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Martian tales was in the third or fourth grade. My parents got me one of the editions with the wicked cool Michael [...]
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 [...]
Amidst all the cooking, cleaning and errand-running of Thanksgiving week (not to mention butchering 19 turkeys!) I managed to sneak away to the Ogre for a few minutes last Wednesday. There were several good titles in my stack this week, The Unwritten and All-Star Western were both excellent, but it’s a book that I didn’t [...]
Habibi by Craig Thompson is a story that feels both epic and personal at the same time. Taking place in a sprawling, third world desert, it is a modern tale that feels timeless. The story centers around Dodola, a child slave who rescues a baby boy she calls Zam, whom she tries to mother after [...]
Yes, dear readers, I bought a ton of new #1s from the continual fire hose of D.C.’s, The New 52! IN GENERAL, the reads were OK. There is a propensity across most of these renewed titles to be more visceral and “edgy,” with more graphic violence, more (attempted) sharp language, and more attitude. Definitely, it [...]
This might be a weird question to ask: but have you ever been bummed out by the fact that you can only experience one lifetime, one time period, in one body, and in one set of circumstances? Sometimes it just doesn’t feel like enough when the human experience is so vast and varied. One Soul [...]
I picked up a graphic novel called PAGE BY PAIGE at the Baltimore Comic Convention a few weeks ago, and I finally had a chance to read it while on vacation last week. It’s a coming of age story written and illustrated by Laura Lee Gulledge. The artwork is whimsical and fun, and the layouts [...]
One of the side effects of having read A LOT of books in my life is that at this point, very little surprises me. I’m savvy to most plot structures and character archetypes and I can usually tell where a story is headed. That’s what I thought going into reading Gunnerkrigg Court by Thomas Siddell, [...]
Everyone once and a while I just get a good feeling about something I know nothing about. That’s how I felt when Terry Moore’s Echo: The Complete Series arrived at our store. I actually waited to check it out and started reading Strangers in Paradise instead, but Echo kept on calling to me so I [...]
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