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I like comic book conventions, although I’ve been pretty hard on them lately. These days most conventions have little to do with comic books. They have a lot to do with pop culture and celebrities and movies and autographs and promotion, but over the past decade or two comic books have become the ugly stepchildren…
The great thing about history is that it never stops being history. It might technically get older, but, realistically, a hundred years is the same as a hundred and twenty. Old is old, dead is dead. So I can read the tenth anniversary edition of a book four years later without feeling any guilt, because…
Other than the [[[Narnia]]] movies, and more recently Inkheart, there really haven’t been many good fantasy films aimed at families. That’s why 20th Century-Fox’s [[[City of Ember]]] proved to be such a major disappointment. The film opened last fall after an extensive marketing campaign aimed not at the families but at the fans who might…
Ten years ago, Iron Man was released and was hailed as brilliant interpretation of a B-list hero few outside of comic shops knew. Just three years ago, Ant-Man was lauded for taking an even more obscure hero and making the same magic. Where the former’s sequel stumbled, the latter’s soared. Ant-Man and the Wasp, out…
Labor Days, Volume 1 By Philip Gelatt and Rick Lacy Oni Press, September 2008, $11.95 Some kinds of double standards will never die. Take a brutish young American male – dull, unattractive, drunken, and stuck in a dead-end odd-jobs business – and he’s both boring and contemptible. But turn him into a London boy, with…
It’s always nice to see comic artists getting respect in places outside of the clubhouse, and so they were as the eighteenth annual Spectrum awards for excellence in science fiction and fantasy art were chosen Saturday evening. Spectrum is widely considered one of the most influential art awards in the genre. Comics Gold: Rebecca Guay for…