“We have a new type of rule now. Not one-man rule, or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power by random pressures, and subject to political and…
Black Friday, Blue Sunday: Jeff on *Everything* He’s Read in November
- November 29, 2015
- Tagged as: Aaron Cockle, Al Ewing, Asumiko Nakamura, Blue Sunday, Bob Fingerman, Boichi, Chris Claremont, Cocotte, Dan Adkins, David Lapham, Don Newton, Ed Brubaker, Eric Jones, Erica Henderson, Frank Miller, Frazer Irving, Fuuka, Giant-Size Defenders, Gil Kane, Iron Fist, Jeff, Jim Mooney, Jim Starlin, John Byrne, Landry Q. Walker, Len Wein, Manhattan Guardian, Minimum Wage, Monstress, Mystic Comics 70th Anniversary Special, Paper Girls, Paul Cornell, Platinum End, reviews, Ryan Kelly, Ryan North, Sean Phillips, Seven Soldiers, Steve Gerber, Sun-Ken Rock, supergirl: cosmic adventures in the eighth grade, Survivors' Club, Takeshi Obata, The Dark Knight Strikes Again!, The Fade-Out, The Humans, The Shining Knight, The Ultimates, This Damned Band, Tom King, Tony Parker, Tsugumi Ohba, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Unfollow, Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist, Vision, Zatanna
Okay, so you survived the American Thanksgiving, Black Friday (apparently also known as “Brown Friday” because of the propensity for people in line to shit in odd places so as not to lose their places…
MONSTRESS #1: As you’ll hear when the podcast goes live on Monday, Graeme and I a bit of talk about Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s Monstress #1, which just came out from Image Comics. And, as…
That’s Really Super, Supergirl: Jeff Looks at Adventure Comics #416-419
- October 31, 2015
- Tagged as: Adventure Comics, Alex Freakin' Toth, Alex Toth, Black Canary, Bob Haney, Carmine Infantino, comixology sales, Frank Frazetta, Frank Giacoia, Gray Morrow, H.G. Peter, Howard Purcell, Jeff, Jim Mooney, Johnny Double, Johnny Thunder, Merry The Girl of a Thousand Gimmicks, Mort Weisinger, reviews, Supergirl, The Enchantress, William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman
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