Okay, we admit it. We are helpless before our addiction. Jack Kirby meets Jim Henson with Kermit as Mister Miracle and Miss Piggy as Big Barda. I presume Oberon is the janitor who cleanes up backstage at The Muppet Show theater.
via My Junk Drawer – Miracle Frog and Pig Barda. Commission. 8×10”.
Anyone who’s traveled in the lands of SF has heard the complaints about worldbuilding: too much research and not enough life, a love of one’s own creations, special pleading and crank ideas. But most of fiction never went that far down the rabbit hole to begin with; most genres could use more worldbuilding, more thought…
Recent years have brought an avalanche of terrible fairy tale remakes. [[[Snow White and the Huntsman]]] was boring, [[[Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters]]] was dreadful, and [[[Jack the Giant Slayer]]] is so absent from my memory that I suspect it induced some kind of post-traumatic stress reaction. I went to see Maleficent expecting to have…
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It used to be, when I was about to go home from the San Diego Comic-Con or some other show that required a stupidly long plane ride, I’d drop by the dealer’s area (you know, that ever-shrinking portion of the main floor where people would actually sell comic books at a “comic book convention”) and…
You might think the stories in this book would feel like a break, but they don’t. Penny Century collects work from Jaime Hernandez from the great Love and Rockets hiatus: from right after the end of the first comics series (in 1996) through 2002, just after the start of the second series. One might assume…
The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship By Phillip Pullman and Fred Fordham Scholastic Graphix, 160 pages, $17.99 There’s little original in Phillip Pullman’s first graphic novel. We have a mystery ship shrouded in fog. Time travel. A rich madman. A plucky heroine. Still, he manages to spice things up then stir…
It’s great to have the comics on ComicMix now. I knew they were always planned to be part of the site, and so the site seemed to me to be a bit empty without them. Now the place seems to be filling in nicely, like a garden in mid-May. Besides enjoying free comics from the…
