Neil Gaiman: “I’m obviously pissed at Amazon”
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/11/neil_gaiman_im_obviously_pissed_at_amazon/ The novelist, children’s author and unofficial publishing industry spokesperson on the future of book culture
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Jen Krueger: The Digital Divide – Reading Comics on My iPad
As someone who has more books than room on my bookshelves to accommodate them, an obsessive collector of cool artifacts of things I love, and a completionist in almost all regards, I don’t think I surprise anyone by saying I love comics. But I have definitely noticed confused head quirks when I admit that when…
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REVIEW: How to Train Your Dragon
When your children grow up and leave home, one of the regrets is that until they give you grandchildren, you have little excuse to go see the fun family films that keep rolling out. As a result, I missed How to Train Your Dragon when it arrived in 2010. I was told by those still…
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Longmire Season 1-2 Come to Blu-ray This Month
The Walt Longmire book series from award-winning author Craig Johnson has spawned a fine adaptation on A&E and in the coming weeks, fans are in for a treat. First, the first two seasons are making their Blu-ray debut on a combo set from Warner Archive followed by season three premiering on June 2 and then…
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REVIEW: Son of Batman
Way back in the 1970s, there was a fun little one-off story by Denny O’Neil where Batman was pitted once more against Ra’s al Ghul, but the unique element was that he was drugged and by the time he woke up, he had been married to Ra’s’ daughter Talia according to their customs. The Detective,…
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Jen Krueger: Binge Reading Comics
A friend of mine has multiple subscriptions at multiple comic book shops. He gets excited for every new issue, and has been consuming comics this way for most of his life. Try as I might, I just can’t understand this, though not because this fervor for comics is foreign to me. It’s the issue by…
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REVIEW: Beware the Batman Season 1 Part 1
As much as there has been a fascination with Batman since his debut 75 years ago, lately, the trend has been to examine those vital origins. This began back with the Christopher Nolan Batman Begins and will most likely be on display next fall on Fox’s Gotham. In the comics, Scott Snyder is wrapping up…
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Mindy Newell: Reading Is Fundamental
Dorothy: What kind of a horse is that? I’ve never seen a horse like that before! Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: And never will again, I fancy. There’s only one of him and he’s it. He’s the Horse of a Different Color you’ve heard tell about. —The Wizard of Oz, 1939 I love to…
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REVIEW: The Book Thief
The Coming of Age book has become fodder for dystopian science fiction and fantasy while some of the toughest Worldbuilding is done right here, on the planet Earth. Things don’t get more dystopian than growing up in Nazi Germany during World War II. As captured by Austrian author Markus Zusak, The Book Thief is a…
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REVIEW: Cleopatra in Space
Cleopatra in Space: Target Practice By Mike Maihack 169 pages, Scholastic Graphix, $12.99 The allure of Cleopatra VII has endured over the millennia and continues to be a source of fascination for people young and old. As a result, she is an easy subject to inject into novels, plays, and unfortunately, this graphic novel. What…
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Dennis O’Neil: How Long Can You Go Without Faking It?
Story ideas are pretty malleable. I once presided over/rode herd on/sweated out an 1,100+ page continuity that began as a plot for two 15-pagers. Hemingway is credited with writing a story in only six words. (Go on. Google it. I’ll wait.) I did something a while back, just a bit over 500 words, that, I…
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Mindy Newell: Who Are You?
“Whooooooooo are you? Who? Who? Who, Who?” WHO ARE YOU Composed by Pete Townsend The Who, 1978 Picking up from last week— All our super-powered mythic creations, whether hero or villain, man or woman, are avatars—whether we realize it or not. Superman, of course, is the Big Kahuna avatar of comics. Every corrupt politician that…