Moore Interviews, Moore Problems
So I guess you’ve all seen this, right? I don’t know if I would comment on it right away, if I didn’t have something of a personal angle on it. […]
Category Archives: Comics
New Year’s Bray
Bom Dia, Bloggers! Did you have a nice holiday season? Myself, I was blessed with Many Books, among them Andrew Rilstone’s “Do Balrogs Have Wings?”, a lovely thing that could […]
Tempest In A Peepot
Okay, I don’t know why Noah Berlatzky hates hates HATES Maus so much — sometimes it seems like he hates it even more than anything by Alan Moore, or Jack […]
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Elmslie: A Curious Conversation About Adventure Characters
Welcome, Bloggers! To the interview I’d planned to post way back in July 2011, with countryman and comics fan Matthew Elmslie, busy at work on his actual second superhero novel, […]
Principia Comicbookia: APPENDIX I
Or: “Of Tricksters And Tuning-Forks” * Circumlocution, Bloggers! That’s how you talk yourself around and around things, and into them and out of them, and no one sees you come […]
After The Paracetemol
Or, as it might have been called… Flashback! To “The Dark Knight Rises…!” There’s an important thing you should know about this movie, which is that I hated it. Full […]
“What Steve Ditko Character Are You?”
Hello, Bloggers! I am currently working on a review of Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises”. It’s proving to be..uhrr…challenging. But along the way, in my painful research process, I […]
Flattery Will Get You Everywhere
The very clever Debi Linton has been kind enough to think it meet to follow my lead, as far as as fantasy-league Nu52 stuff goes…but I can’t leave her a […]
Bruce Banner Begins
If you think about it, it doesn’t make a damn bit of sense. Nuclear bombs emit gamma radiation anyway. There’s nothing special about that. And the gamma bomb has never […]
Forgotten Comics: Atomic City Tales
It seems like a good time to mention this. I only ever read the one issue of this Jay Stephens Nineties (?) superhero-reconstruction, but if you like Milligan and Allred, […]
A Trout In The Milk 