If you’ve read my Comics Journal column on Ted McKeever’s Eddy Current, you probably saw a brief detour I took to discuss the relationship between superheroes and cities. I’ve expanded that topic a little more on my twitter account. Check out this thread: 0/ I’m going to attempt one of those protean @HeerJeet style
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My Comics Journal column about Ted McKeever’s Eddy Current is live! See how Eddy fits into the 1985-87 Event. Also, I couldn’t help myself, but I go into a fun tangent on the portrayal of cities in superhero comics. Here’s a taste: As required by superhero conventions, Eddy lives in a fictional city with a
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Some of you probably have seen it, some of might not have, but I have a column, called Event Horizon, on The Comics Journal where I write about comics from the Event. What is the Event? Here’s my explanation from the inaugural column: For a while now I’ve had the idea that something unusual
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Trans Terra progress images roundup. On track for MoCCA release.
Continue ReadingSuperbowl Sundays are pretty great if you’re into football. They maybe even better if you’re not… A lot of places that would normally be packed on Sunday become deserted when the game begins. For example, did you know skiing becomes a close to solitary affair once everyone trades slopes for couches? Consider that a
Continue ReadingIn last week’s post I mentioned I’d write more about Carl Barks’ Duck by Peter Schilling Jr. (out now from Uncivilized Books). Well, I ended up writing about the Critical Cartoons series as a whole. When I conceptualized the Critical Cartoons series for Uncivilized Books, I wanted to show the breadth of subjects
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