Metropolis

I realize this is really later in the week than I intended to post it, but it couldn’t be helped. Over the past few weeks I been slowly consuming the first season of TRUE BLOOD on DVD, and slowly become addicted to it’s delightfully campy mix of sex and cheese. I’ve been dutifully recording the [...]

Sorry I didn’t post any reviews last week.  I took the week off due to a massive influx of new comics.  Far too many to review! After I waded through the stack of new monthly titles, I decided to try and get caught up on that brick-like wall of new trade paperbacks that has been [...]

Monsters? Idiots?

(or: “You Bees Make Honey, But Not Just For Yourselves”: The Problem with Mark Millar)

Written laws are like spiders’ webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
– Anacharsis, to Solon, when the latter was writing laws for Athens

Always act [...]

It’s almost dusk now at the Saturday Morning Cartoon Characters’ Old Folks Home, formerly known as Camp Candy.
Nick “Wish Kid” McClary and Little Rosey are smoking on the front porch, flicking embers as Fat Albert dips his chaw and expounds on the Manichean heresy.
He’s eloquent from all his years of backalley wrangling. How many deaths [...]

No. There’s no way this could be everything I was hoping for.”
Yes.
Yes, precious.

It’s everything you were hoping for.

“Neville Quain: I know. I know I was the wrong man to lead a boy scout troop into the sewage system under Minneapolis, I know that now. But I think it’s safe to say I learned some very [...]