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Visual Aliens Part I
Hi. The name’s Jones, one of the Jones boys. I usually blog over at Let’s You and Him Fight. This here is the first part of a two-part guest post about a comics technique that I call visual aliens....
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Visual Aliens Part II
In the first part of this post, I introduced the notion of a visual alien, an isolated unit which is drawn in a markedly different visual style from its surrounding. I also postulated that there were...
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The Wire Roundtable: Cherchez la femme
The Wire may or may not be the Greatest TV Show Of All Time, Now And Forever, In Any Language And Genre, In The Whole World, And Throughout The Whole Extent Of Spacetime — but one thing’s for sure....
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Probably the most fatuous thing you will read about Before Watchmen, at least...
Part I. Captain Marvel 1939. C. C. Beck, Bill Parker Marvelman 1954. Mick Anglo Swamp Thing 1971. Bernie Wrightson, Len Wein Jack the Ripper, his poor victims, William Gull, Inspector Abberline et al....
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Garth Ennis: Anti-Messiah, or just a very naughty boy?
At first glance, Garth Ennis’ writing on Preacher appears to be edgy and heterodox, at least for a Direct Market comic from DC. And not just in the superficial stuff that makes for a ‘Mature Readers’...
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50 Million Jaime Fans Can’t Be Wrong
BOSWELL: Why, Sir, it is bruited through all London that Garrick holds the pictorial efforts of our Mr Hernandez in the utmost esteem. JOHNSON: Garrick, Sir, can go fuck himself. *** Sometimes...
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How do you solve a problem like Diana?
This is part of a roundtable on Wonder Woman #28. __________________________________ So there’s this warrior princess, right? Think of her as Xena avant la lettre, only with more lesbian subtext....
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Who Watches the Watchers of Before Watchmen?
So: Thursday 7 June 2012, a day which will live in infamy. I’m not going to go into why Before Watchmen is an all-round immoral “product”, why the *cough* artists involved are sell-outs and scabs,...
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Boobs Pooter versus Bertie Wooster
Compare and Contrast Cage-Match to the Death: Joltin’ Johnny Ryan and PG “Wehrmacht” Wodehouse Ten Rounds! 1. Both men are humourists (duh).* 2. Both have mainly made their living from serialising...
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Against the Ages
Ever since the dawn of time, college undergraduates have started their term papers with the phrase “ever since the dawn of time”. Another thing that’s been happening since then is debates between...
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Could there be a worst comic of all time?
No. * * * * * * Oh, you want to know why? Sheesh. Part 1: 200 Years of Hate When Noah first solicited articles for the Hatestravaganza 3000, I was delighted. At last, the Hooded Utilitarian would break...
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Whenever I hear the word “mash-up”, I reach for my revolver
Virality, here we come! Counting down the twenty-five worst mash-ups-cum-memes of all time: 25. Hitler’s rant in Downfall re-subtitled with a speech by Josef Stalin 24. The cast of Mama’s Family drawn...
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Lunch Hour on Parnassus
[this critic] while[s] away his lunch hour with the immortals on Parnassus Eddie Campbell What comics give us most of all is the experience of comics. What I mean is the way a given cartoonist...
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Jack Kirby and the Visual Logic of Superheroes
Part 1: What Is A Fight Scene? Fighting is to superhero comics what fucking is to pornography, or singing to musicals: the raison d’etre, the sine qua non, the whole kit and kaboodle. It’s why skeevy...
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The 8 Greatest Superheroes You’ve Never Heard Of
Ha ha, no, that title’s just clickbait Jack Kirby and the Visual Logic of Superheroes Part 2: Bif bam pow etc. In Part 1, I talked about the fundamental structure of a fight scene. To recap, a fight...
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Touch and the X-Adolescent
When last we met, dear reader, Uncle Toby had just begun, at long last and after much prefatory hemming and hawing, to describe to the Widow Wadman where exactly he had been wounded in the Siege of...
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