November 12th, 2009 08:38pm
by fourcolors
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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CATEGORY Comic Books
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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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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CATEGORY Publishers
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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CATEGORY CHaracters
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
September 28th, 2009 03:29pm
by fourcolors
My friends on Facebook know that I read comics so on occasion, I will get links to some pretty funny comic book sites or articles.
I personally think that these are really funny. Most of them are from Cracked.com, which I find to be hilarious. It is also for a mature audience, so be aware of that if you wanna check these out. The humor tends to be a bit vulgar, …
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CATEGORY Links A Go-Go
September 21st, 2009 01:31pm
by fourcolors
The super hero genre of games has never been done…(how should I’ll put this)….that well seems to be the best way to put it. There has been a constant complaint that there has never been a good Batman game, which is a feat since there were Batman games on the original Nintendo system. What does not help the case is that the Superman game for the Nintendo 64, aptly titled …
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CATEGORY Comic Books, Video Games
September 16th, 2009 09:18pm
by fourcolors
There is something great about doing a comic book blog. More so than movies and television, in which timeliness is a necessity, I have the ability to talk about older stuff. I can bring up what is coming up, what is coming out, but I can also head back in time and talk about some of my favorite books from times past. Case in point, a book I just put …
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CATEGORY Comic Books, Creators
September 7th, 2009 04:28am
by fourcolors
If there is one thing I love finding, it is a new title. To find a great new story is something that is a bit of rarity in the realm of comic books. Not to say that the medium is stale, it just takes a good amount of effort to find something outside of the superhero genre or something published outside of the Big Four (DC and Marvel, and the …
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CATEGORY Comic Books, New Books
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?