Archive for the ‘Tuesday 10’ Category
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
We're still on a Dark Knight high of sorts, so we're steering our Memory Lane jog towards movies for awhile. When we decided on today's Ten — Best Superhero Movies — via the usual rancorous process (6 or 7 minutes of free association over ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Today's 10 was supposed to be the Top 10 S... oh, to hell with it; it was going to be lame, we caught it early[1] and excised it, and I won't bore you anymore with the Untold Tale.
We brainstormed anew. Actually, it was really just me throwing out even more ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Comics flow through a marketplace so fickle and so resistant to innovation that getting off on the right foot is damn near essential to any sort of success. While certain comics have been able to overcome a non-descript opening story (Daredevil came to mind while breaking out this list), ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Batman (arguably) places higher on the fanboy scale than Superman[1], but why? If comics specialize in wish fufillment and escapism, you can't get granted a much cooler wish than being bulletproof and able to fly, agreed?
Thing is, once you get beyond the first few pages of a Superman story, you ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Remember way back in the '70s when -- what? You weren't even born in the Seventies?
...damn, we're old.
OK, well, back in the '60s and '70s, even up into the front half of the '80s, Marvel overlord Stan Lee would assign nicknames to the creators of most of the comics ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
In no real order, other than maybe from least-to-most credibility-bruising...
10. Strangers in Paradise -
Since my wife never fell for the "they're not comics, they're graphic novels" load, I never had to bring home Terry Moore's heartfelt... whatever it is. I never even tried to read this on the sly in ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I'm sure by now you've seen the sure-to-be-temporary Alex Ross redesign of Captain America debuting in January. It's not a bad design, I think, if a bit overdone with Ross' fondness for metallic materials; I actually like the callback to Cap's original shield in the ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
10. North Salem (Westchester County), NY: Here in Pensacola, we have the Pensacola Christian College compound, unnerving and vaguely menacing in size and scope, expanding and renovating every single day. But, I'd absolutely change my views on PCC's tax-exempt status if it were actually a front for a school for ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
When I first entered the comics game in the early 70's, I had one pusher available to me: the local 7-11. Fortunately for my parents, 7-11's only stocked the standard cover price DC's each month. Unfortunately for my post-adolescent checkbook, those comics were loaded with in-house ads for 100 PAGE ...
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Death in comic books means nothing. We all know that. Beyond the fact that "death" rarely sticks (even the "characters what never ever came back!" are starting to come back now), c'mon... let's not forget that these are fictional characters, most ...
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