Comics Fondle

I was just saying earlier today how there’s very few Native Americans in comics. Then Christos Gage goes and turns Thunderbird into a Nazi. And, really, that’s what he does. Thunderbird in House of M: Avengers is a Nazi. It’s kind of funny, but mostly it’s just really damn bold. I guess Gage realized readership […]

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Moore’s greatest achievement with The Killing Joke is the humanization of the Joker throughout and the dehumanization of Batman. Batman discounts the Joker’s insanity theory, that a person can snap one way or another, but snap nonetheless. Moore’s got some problems with Batman’s motivation here–he starts trying to help the Joker, then he goes after […]

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A talking heads issue, mostly. Starting it, I thought Roger Petersen got the worst inker ever (the kind who gave the fifteen year-old girls breast enlargements). No, just a new penciller–Giuseppe Camuncoli, who’s a terrible fit for the book. He can’t do Vaughan’s cinematic scenes and, while his people do look different, their faces just […]

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I missed these issues the first time around, the danger of multi-story-arc collections… I read the first arc and forgot about the second.
Actually, going straight from issue three to issue six works. These two issues, though they do show a lot of backstory in scene, are covered in conversation in the subsequent collection. The end […]

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Alan Davis’s art gets a lot better–he does a good Batman in daytime here, not the easiest thing, as well as a good bright blue Batman (I realize he didn’t realize the colorist was going to go cornflower blue on the cowl, but Davis manages fine enough pencils the odd color choice can’t hurt it). […]

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