Comics Fondle

The first issue of Local seems entirely informed by Run Lola Run (or the end of the home video version of Clue). I’ve read the issue before and it apparently didn’t occur to me–as I bought the entire series–how it makes absolutely no narrative sense. Roger Ebert, of all people, in his Jackie Brown review, […]

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Here’s where Greg Rucka puts that liberal arts degree to use and does an advertisement for Bush’s Iraq War (”everyone knows Iraq funded 9/11″). I suppose it was inevitable, but it does bring up the point–does a topical work, written either by an intentional perjurer or unwitting rube, suffer when the point is proven (or, […]

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I know Bryan Lee O’Malley is famous and all (not to mention the impending movie), but keep him away from Brian Hurtt’s pencils. O’Malley inks the first issue and he does terrible, terrible things to Hurtt’s pencils. He sucks the delicacy from the art.
But otherwise, this arc is interesting. Rucka manages to turn a simple […]

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Calling Queen and Country Greg Rucka’s attempt at a BBC series sounds about right, but there’s a lot more to what he does with the series. He’s made a series–and I’ve thought about reviewing it issue to issue, but the pacing just seems wrong for it–one cannot easily talk about. It’s got to do with […]

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I tracked down Skinwalker because of Brian Hurtt. I think I’d always thought his first work was in Queen and Country or something, so this late 2001-early 2002 series was–I thought–going to be a discovered delight (discovered delights being forgotten works, the best example being Elia Kazan’s Wild River, which are mostly unknown and absolutely […]

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