2020 The First Half
How’s your 2020 going so far? Pandemic, unexpected relocation, pinched nerve, Minneapolis Riots, RIP Ruby, Pneumonia… what else you got 2020?
Continue ReadingComics Archive
Atari Force 1-13
S-F Heroes Atari Force is a title I admired from afar. I always loved the Jose Garcia Lopez art, and the fact that it was Science Fiction (S-F). With Gerry Conway writing, it always looked like it’d be a solid title by two creators at the top of their game. I had a few
Continue Reading
Silver Surfer Black 1 | Review
Over on Ink Logging, I’ve written a short review of the great looking new Silver Surfer Black series from Marvel. It’s drawn by Tradd Moore. Here’s a taste: There’s a barely restrained surrealist/trippy component to his drawings. The Silver Surfer series seems designed bring that element out in force. There are a lot of
Continue Reading
Logging Ink on Infinite Blogs
I’m writing a lot more. Here a a few places you can find my writing: In the last post, I mentioned my TCJ column, Event Horizon. I’m also blogging much more regularly on Uncivilized Books. (check out the first part of the History of Uncivilized Books) On top of that, I’m writing for Ink Logging,
Continue Reading
Pawn of the Demon: Batman and the Fractal Self-similarity of Superheroes
I’ve got a new entry in my Event Horizon column over at The Comics Journal. This on is about Batman: Son of the Demon (BSOTD) by Mike W. Barr and Jerry Bingham. I did a lot of writing around this episode, much of which didn’t make the final cut. Here’s a bit that got
Continue Reading
Ecological Collapse and the Horror of Kazuo Umezu’s The Drifting Classroom
Paradise Adrift The distance between the present and utopia is measured in centuries. We locate utopian societies in the future, and prefigure them with premonitions of apocalypse; the dysfunctional order of the present must be swept aside by some vaguely grasped apocalyptic event to allow a new and better world to emerge. Every generation
Continue Reading