December 10th, 2009 01:30pm
by fourcolors
DC’s The Flash is the Fastest Man Alive. That has been his moniker for decades now, but he’s also poised to become one of the most important characters in DC Comics, thanks to a staring role in the company-wide mini-series “Blackest Night,” as well as his own mini-series “The Flash: Rebirth.” Since I’ve already covered “Blackest” on this blog and because that focuses more on Green Lantern anyway, today’s focus …
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CATEGORY CHaracters, New Books
December 5th, 2009 09:13pm
by fourcolors
As noted in part of the mission statement of this blog, I am a comic book fan. Probably fanatic would be a better word to use, but that may be beside the point. But on top of reading comics, I would also love to write one some day. I have a few ideas sitting in the back of my mind that I am thinking of pursuing in the near future …
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December 4th, 2009 12:59am
by fourcolors
Just a quick post for this one, since I’ve already posted one thing today.
It started out with just trying to find out what was going on with the current Dr. Fate, the last character to be written by the late, great Steve Gerber. But, as always, Wikipedia has a way of taking over the flow of the mind. One link leads to several and I was led to an article …
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CATEGORY Creators, Events and Such, Links A Go-Go, Maintream, Uncategorized
December 3rd, 2009 05:22pm
by fourcolors
There are some great things about getting your friends into comics. Not only do I feel joy in spreading the form of comics, but I am also creating another outlet in which to find out about books I normally wouldn’t have. Such is the case of introducing my friend Mike to “Sandman” and him returning the favor with “The Umbrella Academy,” the continuing mini-series by Gerard Way (from “My Chemical …
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CATEGORY Comic Books, New Books
November 12th, 2009 08:38pm
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And here we are at the end of this overly long series. Luckily, we’ve been looking at some great books here. That always is a good thing in my opinion. The final book of this series is called “Refresh, Refresh,” which was written and drawn by Danica Novgorodoff (based on a screenplay by James Ponsoldt, itself based on a short story by Benjamin Percy).
Of the three books I read for …
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November 12th, 2009 08:38pm
by fourcolors
Urgent Request
A tip for all of you blog writers. Don’t promise a four part series unless you have all of them written or have no free time. Promising to write on your blog before midterms hit is always a bad idea. Anyway, that’s the excuse for the absence of the other two pieces of the blog for almost a month. I’m not quite up to Kevin Smith status yet (who has …
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CATEGORY Comic Books
October 15th, 2009 10:05pm
by fourcolors
There is something to be said about a writer who can manage to make a story that involves a museum of oddities, a man with a hole in his head, overt racism and the stuffed remains of an African warrior as touching a family drama as Glenn Eichler (with artist Nick Bertozzi) does with the graphic novel “Stuffed!”
Tim Johnston lives a normal life. Wife, young daughter, hates his job, exactly …
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October 14th, 2009 05:20pm
by fourcolors
So over the next few days, I am going to be reviewing a few books from :01 (First Second) Books. For those who read this blog on a regular basis, :01 was the publisher of the book, “American Born Chinese” which I reviewed recently. The books will be (not in the order they will be reviewed)
“The Eternal Smile” by Gene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk Kim
“Stuffed” by Glenn Eichler & …
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October 10th, 2009 01:53am
by fourcolors
The heroes are dead. The villains have carved up the United States and rule it with a grotesque iron first. This is the stage that is set for the recently wrapped “Wolverine” arc, “Old Man Logan” by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven (who teamed-up previously with the Marvel event book, “Civil War”). But this kind of scene is also the kind of odds that Wolverine lives for.
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD
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October 8th, 2009 04:41pm
by fourcolors
Quick post here.
This past weekend was 24 Hour Comics Day.
Here is the long and short of this exciting event: 24 Hour Comic Book Day was started by cartoonist and comic book theorist, Scott McCloud and artist Steve Bissette all the way back in 1990. The two of them, as the legend goes, decided that they were going to challenge themselves by putting together complete (that is at least penciled and …
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CATEGORY Events and Such, Links A Go-Go
Little is known about Trevor Reece. Possibly sent to Earth by his father Jor-El before his home planet of Krypton was destroyed, barely anything is truly fact. The only that is certain is that for the past 10 years, Trevor has been an avid reader of comic books and anything related to them, including books on the history, the criticisms, and critiques of the medium and the recent slew of films that have come out in the past decade. And please forget about that whole thing about Krypton. That was a joke. Trevor isn’t Superman, that’d be ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as Clark Kent being Superman. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if it turned out THAT guy was Superman?