Vinnie Bartilucci said it better than I did. Commenting on a couple of columns that asked, sort of, if the science in comics should be real, Vinnie wrote, “… once a writer chooses to mention actual, proper science, he should get it right.” Yes. Exactly. Well put. But I wonder if we shouldn’t extend the…
Dark Wraith of Shannara By Terry Brooks, Illustrated by Edwin David, Adapted by Robert Place Napton Del Rey, 2008, $13.95 I am morally sure that the following conversation took place somewhere, among some people, before this book came into existence: “It’s not fair! All of those other fantasy writers are getting comics based on their…
Danny and Fred were the last two kids in their grade to still believe in Santa Claus. Danny had first believed in Daddy, but he stopped when Daddy began to yell a lot, and drink whiskey, and throw things. So Danny could believe he had a father, because he could see a man coming and…
In its original Italian form, Notes for a War Story won the 2005 Goscinny Prize for Best Script and was the Best Book of the Year for 2006 at the Angouleme comics festival, so I have to assume that it’s one of the very best European works of recent years. Which is unfortunate, since I…
Last week, we were discussing the cons of continued stories, specifically what’s wrong with them, and we posited that they have a major problem in the difficulty new readers (or audiences) have in understanding the plot and characters. I said that there were remedies for this problem and now I’ll suggest, a bit timidly, that…
Courtesy of the folks at Sequential Pictures, this re-imagining of Dune is just so very wrong. I’m the only one who actually liked the original Dune flick, aren’t I? sigh Also, via Fanboy.com, it’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in 5 Seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-5llTY44w8 That length seems about right to me…
