Memorial Day
Take the time to remember those who were here and are no longer.
We still miss you.
Take the time to remember those who were here and are no longer.
We still miss you.
Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays Edited by Brendan Burford Villard, May 2009, $16.95 For most of the past fifty years, American comics had been running through an ever-tightening spiral of acceptable topics – somewhat mitigated by occasional art-comics eruptions – as superheroes and (ever less and less) other areas thought acceptable for children dominated…
Last night Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim premiered Star Wars: Robot Chicken. The half-hour edition of the popular stop motion cartoon show was entirely devoted to Star Wars gags. What separates this from countless issues of Mad Magazine was the involvement of George Lucas himself. Lucas provides a sense of legitimacy and an acknowledgement that he…
[[[Glee]]] is frothy, delightful television that is as prone to being over-the-top as it is to be emotionally powerful. That it can successfully veer from one extreme to the other is one of the more impressive aspects of the Fox series, created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. The show burst into the…
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier LADY, GO DIE By Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane Titan Books 241 pages Available May 2012 After returning home from World War II, veteran Mickey Spillane was prepared to go back to his civilian job of writing comics. But instead, he opted to take an idea for a…
Today is Black Friday, the day when it is our patriotic duty as Americans to go into a spending frenzy. For all our talk about family values, we think it is more important to forgo the conviviality of the Thanksgiving table so that we can stand in line to buy things. Originally I had thought…
Glee has always been somewhat infuriating in its realistic portrayal of teenage travails (doing it better than most other prime time series) but setting it in such an unrealistic setting since no high school runs the way McKinley does in fictional Lima, Ohio. These kids never have homework or need to balance their studies with…
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